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Pope proposes new financial order guided by ethics
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Teach people to be Self-Reliant. To be able to think and function on their own. Hitler and Communism wanted to control people, make them dependent on the state. Take away their freedom to live their own lives.
Feed the poor and they become dependent on those feeding them. Teach them to grow food and feed themselves and they become confident.
The welfare system in the US is a good example of how not to overcome poverty. Learning to work and do and overcome is the key.
I didn't work in Germany in the 1940's, it didn't work in the former Soviet Union, and it's failing miserably right now in Zimbabwe.
The profit motive -- that horrible "greed" that people condemn in others but justify in themselves -- is what drives everyone to work and excel.
Take that away, and you get starvation, poverty, and squalor. Far better to inspire others to share their wealth voluntarily, than to encourage governments to steal it from them.
NEWS FLASH! I've been part of a system like that all my life! I work and provide for my family, then give some extra to help the needy, and unite with others to serve the common good, all inspired by inspired leaders who have been doing this for generations.
Catch up, Bro.
Is it time for all of us to read George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" again? The libraries our family uses have recently purchased newer copies, as if they are getting ready for us.
He wants businesses to not be greedy, and to think of their fellow man.
He wants the poor countries to be made wealthy through working with the wealthy countries.
He doesn't propose socialism,as may of you think he is. He is proposing that we, the the individuals, or that businesses, work to lift the poor out of poverty. If he was proposing socialism, he would have written to the governments, not to businessmen.
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Almost everyone is greedy, to get more. The dominant political thinking in this country has promised more for everyone, whether they earn it or not, whether they provide jobs and opportunity for others, or just take without producing.
High-sounding rhetoric about how everyone else ought to live won't solve the problem.
Leaders who inspire others to produce and contribute freely are the ones we need more of.