Posted on 07/24/2014 3:25:34 AM PDT by matthewrobertolson
Nonsense like this puts in question everything else he has to say. Hoover and FDR act gave us the Great Depression; not Wall Street. Most Wall Street analysts knew the market would recover. Washington had a regulatory solution in search of a problem and found it in the crash.
A bit hard to follow due to its poor construct and contradictions.
Moral vice is not a capitalist trait, it is a human trait.
What a major piece of Catholic propagandist jit
If you don’t believe in capitalism, you don’t believe in freedom.
If you don’t believe in freedom, you believe in slavery.
If you believe in slavery, you lose all moral claim to being one of the good guys.
End of story.
I'd be curious to know the moral or philosophical basis for this statement. I'm wondering if this attitude is part of the problem we're dealing with.
Free markets have produced wealth beyond the wildest dreams of people like Marx and Engels.
The only societies in which individual freedom is protected are societies with free markets.
As many people have observed, the only way you can have a socialist economy is with a police state enforcement to prevent people from making their own decisions. Farmers had to be literally forced at gun point into the collective farms of the Soviet Union. Armed guards would always be seen standing in front of stores in socialist countries where people waited in line for food and basic necessities.
In every socialist country human suffering and human misery is the result.
I find it disgusting that people who benefit from the wealth, ease and personal freedom of America criticize those who make this country work and praise corrupt politicians and brutal totalitarians.
If you don’t believe in freedom, you believe in slavery.
If you believe in slavery, you lose all moral claim to being one of the good guys.
End of story.
I was trying to think of an appropriate response to this piece and then I read your comment and the only thing I could think is: that's absolutely correct.
You are absolutely correct. You said it all in a few short words.
I don't care if someone is a Communist, a Catholic, a Muslim, a professional global warming hoax artist, an overpaid government bureaucrat or an inmate of an insane asylum, if they preach anti-capitalism, they preach slavery.
End of story.
Indeed. From the folks who conflated capitalism with the sale of salvation.
He seems to be a meddlesome sort of fellow
I am dumber for having attempted to read this article…..
It does seem that most worship the almighty dollar. With enough dollars, you can achieve heaven on earth.
Pure rubbish.
FRiend, your mind is corrupted by something, and I'd be curious to learn just what that is?
The thing about the Huge Difference between different types of property is that it is a sliding scale that can be adjusted downward by the government agents who apply it so that eventually, as in Communism, your own life isn’t even on the right side of the Huge Difference between property dividing like.
Bottom line: when someone talks about a Huge Difference between good and bad property, they are supporting the government’s unfettered claims on all property.
Good Grief!
This is all communist prattle.
I've said for a long time that an economic system built around people living in their "own" homes -- usually with large mortgages -- and then traveling somewhere else miles away to work for someone else is an economic system built on sand. So many principles of sound economics are put at risk in this type of scenario.
In a system built on sound economic principles, the only real property ownership involves property that is used as a means of production. The modern idea of "property ownership" that we've come to accept as normal is really a construct of the post-WW2 era.
Distributism seems to be a wildly optimistic assumption that everybody will be equally competent at managing their share of “the means of production.”
Somehow I doubt it. As my dad used to put it, if everybody started with the same amount of wealth today, in a few years it would be concentrated again in about the same fashion it is now.
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