Review: "Tea Party Catholic" Part III | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: As I said previously, this is not a book to convert people to Tea Party conservatism but simply to repeat and reinforce propoganda. Its called Cathechism. On free trade, it is a fact that if you have trade with equally prosperous economies a rising tide will raise all boats. That is why he have the United States - it is essentially a free trade zone (which improved when slavery and Jim Crow were abolished - although right to work still leaves the South a third world country). Two different economies, however, lead to the type of exploitation of the worker best described in Das Kapital by Marx in this introduction to volume one.
The Tea Party libertarians really do believe that Social Security is welfare - and they are correct - the top 20% (who write the checks) would benefit from ending the redistributive part of the program (while the bottom 80% go back to depending on their kids or starving) - all of which explains the desire to create private accounts. As for welfare causing dependency and breaking up families - what causes dependency are rules which do not give benefits to in tact families and drug laws which try to put black men in jail even before they are men.
As far as slurring Latinos (many of whom have been in this country for more generations than Gregg), the Tea Party Nationalists cannot help themselves. One wonders if this Cathechism has led to some kind of donation from the Kochs or one of their fronts?
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