"God's Economy" - A Review | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Olaskty was right, Churches are much more effective at social services and should replace government whereever possible(especially if you include schools) - however they must play nice if they want to do that - especially the Catholic Church. I am less concerned with their bloviations on birth control and much more concerned with the bishops continual refusal to adopt modern non-profit governance methods for Church property and modern (or ancient) methods to select bishops. There is no King or Commissar in the US seeking to block the Church from selecting its own leadership, so there is no need to continue the temporary expedient of papal selection - which is neither ancient nor appropriate.
On the economic side, Bush did want to empower individuals to own stock - he just had no method in mind to have them control it. His Social Security personal account scheme would have shifted stock ownership in a few decades from the open market to Social Security participants, but without the tools necessary to give those participants control over what they owned. Had he proposed employee ownership rather than what was essentially giving management a free hand forever, he would have been very much in line with Pope Leo's vision of a just world.
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