Pope Francis and workers in Genoa: Distinctly Catholic: Today
MGB: Speculators are not job creators, they are job destroyers. Romney is a speculator. They never deserve tax cuts, because every cut you give them is an incentive to turn the screws on workers. Trump is actually an entrepreneur, but a crooked one who does not pay his vendors. He is not really a capitalist, because he owns his capital, he does not seek investors, although sometimes he does behave like one.
Francis sends his priests out into the world, while St. John Paul pulled them back from politics. I wonder if he will reverse the ban on office holding?
Francis just destroyed the Cato Institute in one paragraph (as well as the Prosperity Gospel and Trump). Workers should be co-owners, not competitors. It is management that should compete for their jobs. Workers should consume cooperatively, not in the market, and if possible make what they consume (look for a socialist economist, not a theologian). Catholicism can be a nice overlay, but the doctrine is cooperative socialism.
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