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Vatican: Population Growth is a Means of Overcoming Poverty, Not a Cause of It
LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/9/10 | John-Henry Westen

Posted on 02/09/2010 3:54:56 PM PST by wagglebee

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Smashing any appeal to undertake population control in the name of alleviating poverty, the pope added: "The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings."

Very true!

1 posted on 02/09/2010 3:54:57 PM PST by wagglebee
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2 posted on 02/09/2010 3:55:26 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 02/09/2010 3:55:50 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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4 posted on 02/09/2010 3:56:18 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Some folks heads will explode on this one LOL. But wealth is built through the velocity of money. The more often a single dollar (or whatever currency) becomes income and spending the greater the wealth.


5 posted on 02/09/2010 3:58:49 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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Very, very true. Declining birthrate = no workers, no productivity, no customers, no nothing.


6 posted on 02/09/2010 4:00:07 PM PST by livius
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I thought these clowns said that having humans caused global warming.....now they say they actually like humans.......what phonies....like Prince Charles.....who follows these frauds? Not me.....


7 posted on 02/09/2010 4:01:24 PM PST by There You Go Again
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I thought these clowns said that having humans caused global warming.....now they say they actually like humans.

Well, you thought wrong. The Catholic Church NEVER suggested that human life was the cause of ANYTHING and NEVER supported any form of population control.

8 posted on 02/09/2010 4:09:10 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: There You Go Again

What clowns are you talking about? The Catholic Church has never said that humans cause global warming, and in fact the Pope’s last statement on this said that human beings are the pinnacle of creation and that any “ecology” must bear this in mind.

Prince Charles is not a Catholic, and in fact, I’m not even sure he’s sane...


9 posted on 02/09/2010 4:11:09 PM PST by livius
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obviously he hasn’t seen the effects of a high population in Ca :( bad schools,bad roads hey just like Mexico,el salvador,Africa etc...


10 posted on 02/09/2010 4:14:31 PM PST by lmarie373 ("Im a light skinned mexican-american with no mexican dialect ")
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who follows these frauds? Not me.....Posts There You Go Again as he goes again posting on the thread of the frauds he refuses to follow.

LOL.

11 posted on 02/09/2010 4:19:54 PM PST by johniegrad
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What clowns? Are you referring to the Vatican?


12 posted on 02/09/2010 4:20:13 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Economist Julian Simon explicated this observation about forty years ago. He showed that the Malthusian conclusion was defeated by human ingenuity, which is maximized by population growth. Events have proven him largely correct.

He was challenged by drugstore paperback amateurs like Paul Ehrlich, but they failed to make a dent. Reality is tougher than liberal spin.

13 posted on 02/09/2010 4:35:33 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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Tell me a society where the birth rate is allot higher than the replacement rate and that society IS already, or IS becoming wealthier? There are none.

The only two nations with extremely huge populations, India and China have both increased their gross, and per-capita wealth, from very great rates of poverty at the same time they have trimmed the rate of population growth.

It is one thing to acknowledge that a very low birth rate is not helpful to sustained economic growth in the long run.

That does not translate, morally or economically into the opposite - that a very high birth rate is naturally positive, all the time in all cases.

I am not offering these insights as promotion of any nation’s social methodology regarding contraception and certainly not to render any support for abortion.

But there is some distance between the categorical image presented by the Vatican - that population growth is inherently and always a good (it in fact depends on the context), and the realistic morality of reasonable methods of contraception, outside of abortion, when a family’s three existing children are already starving.


14 posted on 02/09/2010 4:51:15 PM PST by Wuli
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"In other words, population is proving to be an asset, not a factor that contributes to poverty,"

Haiti and Bangladesh certainly support this contention.

16 posted on 02/09/2010 5:01:04 PM PST by verity (Obama Lies)
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for only within the work force can the solution for poverty be found

Wrongthink pope, the government creates all employment. The private economy is built on greed.


17 posted on 02/09/2010 5:02:43 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (STATE CONTROLLED ECONOMIES SUCK ! LONG LIVE AMERICA.)
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Population density has NOTHING to do with a country’s wealth or poverty, but don’t let that stop you from pushing your agenda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density


18 posted on 02/09/2010 5:04:22 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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"Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest nations, with overpopulation adding to its economic woes, and it is heavily reliant on foreign aid."
19 posted on 02/09/2010 5:07:16 PM PST by verity (Obama Lies)
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Yes, I’m well aware you agree with the whole Malthusian death agenda, now you have a president who agrees.


20 posted on 02/09/2010 5:12:42 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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