The Pope hits the nail on the head...
Generations of self-absorbed martinets have written rules for themselves at the expense of future generations. They are enjoying their sinecures and looking forward to a fine retirement. But those rules they imposed under the politics they played has created a generation coming up that cannot support the generation retiring.
Now I never thought I would ever retire, so it does not matter much to me. But I guess for many it will be condign punishment ahead.
Policies have winners and losers, and consequences:
The first book is the Code of Canon Law, the entire legal code of the Roman Rite (there are at least 22 other Catholic Churches in communion with Rome, that have their own legal systems.) This is just the operating handbook, but it is a study in a lean legal structure.
The second book is the well known Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is an organized recitation of what the Church teaches, and why. I like it! But is is just the teachings, to be reflected upon intellectually.
The third book is almost unknown, The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Now this is a great book. It is the Catechism acted out in the real world, covering all sorts of real world issues and the policies the Church proposes (but would never impose.) For example...
Sound familiar? Whereas the Catechism lays out what Catholics believe, this document lays out a description of the facts on the ground and suggests policies to deal with real world conditions. It covers everything, unions, politics, int'l trade, money, war, etc.
Whatever one thinks of the Catholic Church, they are the team to beat when arguing any policy. Here is a run down on their policies prescriptions and the reasons why. I recommend it...
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
On the plane en route to Rio, he had lamented that an entire generation of young people risked not knowing what it's like to work thanks to an economic crisis that has seen youth unemployment skyrocket in many European countries while leaving the poor of the developing world behind.
"People get their dignity from work, they earn their bread," he told reporters aboard the plane. "Young people in this moment are in crisis."
Generations of self-absorbed martinets have written rules for themselves at the expense of future generations. They are enjoying their sinecures and looking forward to a fine retirement. But those rules they imposed under the politics they played has created a generation coming up that cannot support the generation retiring.
Now I never thought I would ever retire, so it does not matter much to me. But I guess for many it will be condign punishment ahead.
Policies have winners and losers, and consequences:
"And what is absolutely true is that we have come a long way since the depths of the Great Recession. We've created over 7.2 million private sector jobs," Carney told reporters at a press briefing.Curiously, the Roman Catholic rite has three documents that have a suprisingly good take on policies. Why would the Roman church have anything good to say? Well, it is the largest and the oldest single organization in history. They know from policy...
Here's what Mr. Carney didn't say:
Since February of 2009, the first full month of Obama's presidency, 9.5 million Americans have dropped out of the labor force. Nearly 90 million Americans are not working today!
That means that 1.3 Americans have dropped out of the labor force for every one job the administration claims to have created.
There are 15 million more Americans on food stamps today than when Obama assumed office.
The first book is the Code of Canon Law, the entire legal code of the Roman Rite (there are at least 22 other Catholic Churches in communion with Rome, that have their own legal systems.) This is just the operating handbook, but it is a study in a lean legal structure.
The second book is the well known Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is an organized recitation of what the Church teaches, and why. I like it! But is is just the teachings, to be reflected upon intellectually.
The third book is almost unknown, The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Now this is a great book. It is the Catechism acted out in the real world, covering all sorts of real world issues and the policies the Church proposes (but would never impose.) For example...
347. The free market is an institution of social importance because of its capacity to guarantee effective results in the production of goods and services. Historically, it has shown itself able to initiate and sustain economic development over long periods. There are good reasons to hold that, in many circumstances, “the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs”.[726] The Church's social doctrine appreciates the secure advantages that the mechanisms of the free market offer, making it possible as they do to utilize resources better and facilitating the exchange of products. These mechanisms “above all ... give central place to the person's desires and preferences, which, in a contract, meet the desires and preferences of another person”.[727]
A truly competitive market is an effective instrument for attaining important objectives of justice: moderating the excessive profits of individual businesses, responding to consumers' demands, bringing about a more efficient use and conservation of resources, rewarding entrepreneurship and innovation, making information available so that it is really possible to compare and purchase products in an atmosphere of healthy competition.
Sound familiar? Whereas the Catechism lays out what Catholics believe, this document lays out a description of the facts on the ground and suggests policies to deal with real world conditions. It covers everything, unions, politics, int'l trade, money, war, etc.
Whatever one thinks of the Catholic Church, they are the team to beat when arguing any policy. Here is a run down on their policies prescriptions and the reasons why. I recommend it...
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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