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From: "Mario Goveia" <[email protected]>
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> In my opinion, the Pope was assuming he knew better what was good for
> everyone else when he made his comments in the encyclical. In economics,
> he doesn't.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:34:57 -0700
From: "isouza" <[email protected]>
When Benedict XVI is writing on integral human development, he certainly
knows more than you and I.
Mario responds:
Speak for yourself, Fr. Ivo:-))
Real human development has progressed the most for the most people most of the
time when people followed their own free market instincts, not by what any Pope
or other elitist like Karl Marx thought who has never had to decide what
products to make or sell, never hired people in a business, never had to pay
them every month from the cash flow of the business, never had to worry about
making a profit for the business, and knows beans about economics or the pros
and cons of outsourcing.
This would be as bogus as a Pope preaching about day-to-day marital relations
as part of "human development".
Fr. Ivo wrote:
Rather than teaching technical economics Benedict XVI is teaching how love can
solve the problems of the nations. "Love-caritas- is an extraordinary force
which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field
of justice and peace".
Mario observes:
Unfortunately, while love may make the world go round, Pope Benny's love
doesn't seem to include those who would lose their livelyhoods if outsourcing
were to end because of Pope Benny trying to put some bogus moral guilt trip on
business owners.
Real economic justice and peace comes from stable economies where people have
stable employment and are free to buy and sell products and services and run
their businesses without coercion by the heavy hand of government or the
Vatican.
If the Vatican wants REAL economic justice and peace it should lecture
governments to get out of the way of their business enterprises, and focus on
helping them with reasonable tax policies and the best infrastructure and
security systems possible so that they are free to conduct their businesses
more easily and without fear.
In such an environment private charities spring up to help those members of the
society who are unable to help themselves.
