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I would ban any person receiving welfare or government assistance (not social security) of any kind from voting for the duration that they receive that assistance. Of course, I’m not a politician…
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kkollwitz
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"Our birthrate has dropped to just over the replacement rate,
with a growing number of young men and women opting to relax and
enjoy the fruits of our prosperity rather than raise a new generation to
carry it on."
Yes. I blame contraception for that; and wonder if any culture with a contraceptive worldview will survive.
with a growing number of young men and women opting to relax and
enjoy the fruits of our prosperity rather than raise a new generation to
carry it on."
Yes. I blame contraception for that; and wonder if any culture with a contraceptive worldview will survive.
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ACCT
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Social Insecurity is welfare too. Social Security was on the Socialist platform of 1928.I would ban any person receiving welfare or government assistance (not social security) of any kind from voting for the duration that they receive that assistance. Of course, I’m not a politician…
It will be interesting to see if America has the moral courage to vote against those politicians who voted for Obamacare and who do not speak out against abortion.
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ACCT
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*Is There a Moral Case for Capitalism?
Socialism has been discredited. The totalitarian states of the twentieth century have collapsed. And we beneficiaries of the globalized world economy are grateful that we enjoy plentiful food, clothing, shelter—and cheap electronics.
But can any moral person really be for capitalism?
Consumerism is an appalling spectacle, with Americans glutting themselves on all kinds of excess, while people in the developing world starve. The rich seem to be hogging far more than their share of the world’s resources. Free markets may be efficient, but are they fair? Aren’t there some things—life-saving health care, for example—that we can’t afford to leave to the vicissitudes of the market?
Now, in Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, Father Robert Sirico—a Catholic priest, former leftist associate of Jane Fonda, and now a longtime champion of the free market—answers all these objections. Father Sirico shows how a free economy—necessarily including private property, legally enforceable contracts, and prices and interest rates freely agreed to by willing parties to transactions (not set by government bureaucrats)—is the best way to meet society’s material needs, from basic nutrition to sophisticated health care technology. Well-intentioned activists who seek to enlarge the state’s economic role are only killing the goose that laid the golden egg. The fact is, private enterprise in the free market has lifted millions out of dire poverty—far more people than state welfare or private charity have ever rescued from want.
But a free economy isn’t just by far the most efficient way of producing the largest amount of goods and services for the world’s population. Economic freedom is also an indispensable support to the other freedoms we prize—such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The right to economic freedom doesn’t make things more important than people—just the reverse. It’s only if we have economic rights that we can effectively protect ourselves from government encroachment into the most private areas of our lives—right down to our consciences.
As governments across the globe continue to act with unprecedented irresponsibility—burdening the creators of wealth with ever more regulation and borrowing colossal sums of money just as populations are set to decline precipitately—our prosperity, our economic freedom, and our most basic rights are threatened. The comfortable lifestyles and plentiful goods we take for granted are at risk. But so is the liberty whose source is found in our inherent dignity as human beings, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights. Father Sirico sounds a timely warning—and reveals the principles that must be the basis for the recovery of our freedoms.*
Socialism has been discredited. The totalitarian states of the twentieth century have collapsed. And we beneficiaries of the globalized world economy are grateful that we enjoy plentiful food, clothing, shelter—and cheap electronics.
But can any moral person really be for capitalism?
Consumerism is an appalling spectacle, with Americans glutting themselves on all kinds of excess, while people in the developing world starve. The rich seem to be hogging far more than their share of the world’s resources. Free markets may be efficient, but are they fair? Aren’t there some things—life-saving health care, for example—that we can’t afford to leave to the vicissitudes of the market?
Now, in Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, Father Robert Sirico—a Catholic priest, former leftist associate of Jane Fonda, and now a longtime champion of the free market—answers all these objections. Father Sirico shows how a free economy—necessarily including private property, legally enforceable contracts, and prices and interest rates freely agreed to by willing parties to transactions (not set by government bureaucrats)—is the best way to meet society’s material needs, from basic nutrition to sophisticated health care technology. Well-intentioned activists who seek to enlarge the state’s economic role are only killing the goose that laid the golden egg. The fact is, private enterprise in the free market has lifted millions out of dire poverty—far more people than state welfare or private charity have ever rescued from want.
But a free economy isn’t just by far the most efficient way of producing the largest amount of goods and services for the world’s population. Economic freedom is also an indispensable support to the other freedoms we prize—such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The right to economic freedom doesn’t make things more important than people—just the reverse. It’s only if we have economic rights that we can effectively protect ourselves from government encroachment into the most private areas of our lives—right down to our consciences.
As governments across the globe continue to act with unprecedented irresponsibility—burdening the creators of wealth with ever more regulation and borrowing colossal sums of money just as populations are set to decline precipitately—our prosperity, our economic freedom, and our most basic rights are threatened. The comfortable lifestyles and plentiful goods we take for granted are at risk. But so is the liberty whose source is found in our inherent dignity as human beings, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights. Father Sirico sounds a timely warning—and reveals the principles that must be the basis for the recovery of our freedoms.*
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St_Francis
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I would just like to point out that Social Security is not welfare. It is a program whereby people were forced to pay into a retirement program, and those payments were supposed to be kept separate. In exchange for this, they were/are promised to be paid when they retire. It is not means tested, what you get corresponds roughly to what you paid in.Social Insecurity is welfare too. Social Security was on the Socialist platform of 1928.
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_Abyssinia
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Rev Robert A Sirico being interviewed about this book on EWTN’s World Over Live
youtube.com/watch?v=vWm0_vdDZdw
youtube.com/watch?v=vWm0_vdDZdw
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kkollwitz
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SocSec is just another government racket to weaken family ties and make people more dependent on government. I’m 55 and would be willing to lose every penny I’ve paid in order to eliminate the whole thing.
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St_Francis
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I do have a theory that SS made it easier for future retirees to have fewer children, and with the reduction in income, harder to have more.SocSec is just another government racket to weaken family ties and make people more dependent on government. I’m 55 and would be willing to lose every penny I’ve paid in order to eliminate the whole thing.
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kkollwitz
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SocSec and the pill have both done great damage to the family, and by extension, society; with the slack being happily taken up by the gov’t.
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teeboy
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There is no such thing as a truly free market. It won’t ever exist.
Most products of the marketplace are distractions from doing the will of God.
I got tired of contributing to my ex employers giving program BC I had to agree to a ten page contract before I gave money. I get tired of reading contracts.
Opening a business with a giving program isn’t necessarily doing the will of God.
The problem with the unemployed is educational and health related. As well as related to misbehavior in the workplace.
I am unemployed as of a year. I won’t go back to my previous employer because of their injustice as managers.
Most products of the marketplace are distractions from doing the will of God.
I got tired of contributing to my ex employers giving program BC I had to agree to a ten page contract before I gave money. I get tired of reading contracts.
Opening a business with a giving program isn’t necessarily doing the will of God.
The problem with the unemployed is educational and health related. As well as related to misbehavior in the workplace.
I am unemployed as of a year. I won’t go back to my previous employer because of their injustice as managers.
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stinkcat_14
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Would you exclude medicare recipients from voting? Farmers who receive farm subsidies? I am not sure why you would exclude Social Security recipients because that is the biggest welfare program we have.I would ban any person receiving welfare or government assistance (not social security) of any kind from voting for the duration that they receive that assistance. Of course, I’m not a politician…
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sedonaman
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There is no shortage of educational opportunities in this country. Besides public education K-12, high schools offer night classes for those who didn’t get their HS diploma. Community colleges admit anyone over 18 and with a body temperature of 98.6. The unemployment office offers re-training under a federal program. Even some employers offer training for their employees.…The problem with the unemployed is educational …
All that is required of the individual is that he apply himself. :yup: I supervised three Vietnamese boat people who came to the U.S. as youths. They went to American public schools and eventually graduated from engineering school. They came here with nothing, and in one generation worked up to middle class. All this with English as their second language.
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teeboy
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Excellent. We have a Vietnamese mass nearby.There is no shortage of educational opportunities in this country. Besides public education K-12, high schools offer night classes for those who didn’t get their HS diploma. Community colleges admit anyone over 18 and with a body temperature of 98.6. The unemployment office offers re-training under a federal program. Even some employers offer training for their employees.
All that is required of the individual is that he apply himself. :yup: I supervised three Vietnamese boat people who came to the U.S. as youths. They went to American public schools and eventually graduated from engineering school. They came here with nothing, and in one generation worked up to middle class. All this with English as their second language.
However, God doesn’t care if you understand the difference between a second and first derivative. Nor your design skills.
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sedonaman
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Sure, he does. He gave you the talent, didn’t He, just as much as He gave Mozart the talent to write beautiful music? IAE, what does it have to do with “The Moral Case for a Free Economy”?… God doesn’t care if you understand the difference between a second and first derivative. Nor your design skills.
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