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Thomas Sowell has stated in a column today, "Pope Francis’ own native Argentina was once among the leading economies of the world, before it was ruined by the kind of ideological notions he is now promoting around the world.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/the-left-has-its-pope/#oLpYFS6Dj7A6Tps4.99

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-— Thomas Sowell has stated in a column today, “Pope Francis’ own native Argentina was once among the leading economies of the world, before it was ruined by the kind of ideological notions he is now promoting around the world. -—

Very true. And we wonder, How can this be? But it’s no different from our country, where a large number of people blame free markets for our social ills, when the true cause is welfare programs.

Economics is abstract, and people generally struggle with identifying cause and effect when causes are remote from the effects.