"Someone once said that the opposite of poverty is not property. Rather, the opposite of both poverty and property is community."
(Via Catholic News Agency.)
At the recommendation of a friend, I read this homily. Pass it on to the hardhearted.
Society: September 2008 Archives
Skip to Jon's question on Bristol's "decision" at 4:05. Outrageous.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama once spoke to CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo about the economy. Bartiromo made the usual comments an ideologically minded supply-sider might make, and Obama true to form, struck his usual centrist tone:
The one thing you can be assured of is I'm not going to be making these [economic] decisions based on ideology. I'm not a dogmatist...I believe in the market. I believe in entrepreneurship. I believe in opportunity. I believe in capitalism. And I want to do what works, but what I want to make sure of is it works for all America and not just a small sliver of America.
Obama does have quite the plan. It is a mixed bag to be sure, as anything political would be, but it is both a sound and refreshingly moral plan to help this economy work for all Americans. Instead of government spending per se, it consists of government investment, a key distinction from leftist ideological choices. It provides for targeted tax relief to the engines of our economy: the consumer and the more importantly small business. As a progressive he includes union protection, but departs from political pandering and opts for sensible regulation. See a pattern? I've said to my progressive/liberal friends that if they don't get a pro-business, pro-growth policy that expresses their ideals and values, they might was well pack it in to conservatives whose policies smack of trickle down, faith based "economics." No government in a free economy creates jobs. Businesses do and they don't do so out of charity or good will. They do so out of necessity or incentive. So there has to be a system of carrots and sticks, that forces them to, as Taylor put it, "share in the surplus." So to create jobs, you have to be pro-business in some way, and refreshingly Obama does not disappoint. More on this later.
Continue reading Sharing Prosperity: Obama's Economic Plan for Small Business.
msnbc.com video: Biden on religion, abortion:
(Via MSNBC.com.)
Good answer. I wonder if the bishop would deny leadership to those pro-death penalty Republicans? The Church teaches against that too. I have no love for that hypocrisy.
Top G.O.P. Pundits Fault Palin Selection - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com:
"‘The most qualified? No. I think they went for the — excuse me — political (expletive) about narratives. … Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and that’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.’"
(Via The Caucus.)
Ouch.
