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To: LucianOfSamasota

Best cure for poverty=capitalism


6 posted on 03/14/2013 6:26:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Exactly. More wealth was created in the West in the period from the late 1700s through the early 1900s than at any other time or place in human history. And that is when Capitalism, in its “harshest” form, was in full force. Private charity is fine and eveyone should engage in it. But it should never be called “moral” for the government to take money from one person and give it to another person as a transfer payment or other benefit. That is simply a government policy and in many cases a horribly wrong government policy. I don’t know enough about this Pope to know if he supports private charity or is going to start going around saying that government has an obligation to hand out cash and other benefits to the poor. I hope he doesn’t.


9 posted on 03/14/2013 6:31:58 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: dfwgator

Agreed and unbridled at that.


57 posted on 03/14/2013 8:06:56 AM PDT by Patriot365
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