CRONY CAPITALISM IS NOT CAPITALISM.
As much good work Coburn did in the matter of earmarks, nothing will fundamentally change regarding over spending until we have a balanced budget amendment that can only be bridged in a wartime emergency ( meaning an attack by a foreign power). This is so fundamental it is hard to see why we cannot get it passed other than those in power don't want any restrictions on their ability to tax and spend what they judge to be necessary. Meanwhile we have a deficit of 18 trillion unfunded liabilities four times that, and no prospect for coding the gap. This is why we are doomed to a collapse in the value of the currency and all that follows that.
DOESN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT CAPITALISM, EH?Talk about living in a cocoon of real world ignorance. Pope might start by distributing much of the wealth of the church to poor people. After that he might try educating himself on economics beginning with Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". What's wrong with sticking to theological matters?
You know the Catholic Church is in trouble when the left-wing
Guardian refers to Francis as the “superman pope.” He didn’t earn this dubious honor just by brokering Obama’s embrace of the communist slave state in Cuba. He has promoted state-inflicted poverty by
attacking economic freedom and is now
pushing the global warming hoax:
In 2015, the pope will issue a lengthy message on the subject to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, give an address to the UN general assembly and call a summit of the world’s main religions.
The reason for such frenetic activity, says Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, chancellor of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, is the pope’s wish to directly influence next year’s crucial
UN climate meeting in Paris, when countries will try to conclude 20 years of fraught negotiations with a universal commitment to reduce emissions.
Reducing emissions reduces our standard of living. It does not reduce temperatures, as if they needed reducing. The global warming hoax has already been definitively debunked. According to the bogus theory it is based on, skyrocketing carbon emissions should result in corresponding temperatures. Yet temperatures have remained level for the past 18 years.
Nonetheless, the hoax is still seen as useful by those with hard left political agendas, who see it as a pretext to impose oligarchical collectivist authoritarianism. Except during extreme weather events that will happen no matter what, these power grabbers do not have the climate on their side. But they do have the Pope.
Following a visit in March to Tacloban, the Philippine city devastated in 2012 by typhoon Haiyan, the pope will publish a rare encyclical on climate change and human ecology. Urging all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds, the document will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests, who will distribute it to parishioners.
According to Vatican insiders, Francis will meet other faith leaders and lobby politicians at the
general assembly in New York in September, when countries will sign up to new anti-poverty and environmental goals.
It is no accident that the “anti-poverty” (i.e., anti-capitalism) and environmental goals are mentioned together. Free market capitalism has done vastly more to lift people out of poverty than any other system in history. Consequently, destroying it so as to replace it with Soviet-style serfdom requires more than just tired and empty rhetoric about the poor, who will be far more numerous and far more poor if leftists are able to prevent the creation of wealth.
In recent months, the pope has argued for a radical new financial and economic system to avoid human inequality and ecological devastation. In October he told a meeting of Latin American and Asian landless peasants and other social movements: “An economic system centred on the god of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of consumption that is inherent to it.
“The system continues unchanged, since what dominates are the dynamics of an economy and a finance that are lacking in ethics. It is no longer man who commands, but money. Cash commands.
“The monopolising of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness,” he said.
It is hard to say who would applaud this sophomoric rhetoric more enthusiastically: Al Gore or Karl Marx.
Note the emphasis on “human inequality.” People cannot be both equal and free, at least not in an economic sense. Holding everyone but the unavoidable ruling elite to a lowest common denominator has never increased the standard of living for the masses and never will.
The days of Jean Paul II confronting communist tyranny have never been more missed.
The cheering leftists at the Guardian refer to “Francis’s environmental radicalism.” Given its explicit elevation of the nonhuman over the human, there has never been a more un-Christian ideology than environmental radicalism. The Pope praising the Devil would not be more appalling.
People of weak faith believe that Christianity needs to get with the times or become obsolete. This will not be accomplished by chaining the Catholic Church to a hoax that an increasing percentage of the population can see through to its malevolent authoritarian objectives.
ARE COMMUNISTS BEHIND DEMONSTRATIONS? This flier suggests yes!
The contrived Black Lives Matter protests have many people wondering what exactly the moonbats on the street and those pulling their strings are trying to accomplish.
The string pullers — meaning the Obama Administration and the liberal media kingpins who put it in power — want a distraction from the failure of Obama’s presidency, a tightened focus on the cultural Marxist blacks-as-sacred-victims narrative, and most ominously, to extend federal control over local police, which is a prerequisite to imposing a police state.
No doubt there is more behind the Alinskyite tactics than we are cynical enough even to imagine. But when it comes to the wackos actually out there on the streets demanding dead cops, we don’t have to imagine. Some are unskilled enough as revolutionaries to actually tell us their objectives.
After a recent anti-police riot in the San Francisco area,
Zombie saw a flyer in the subway that spells it right out for us:
It was made by the Revolutionary Communist Party, one of several communist groups that have been leading the protests and going all-out to ignite a race war in the aftermath of the Mike Brown and Eric Garner incidents.
Click for full size (sorry about the language):
By “revolution,” they mean the imposition of a totalitarian communist slave state along the lines of Cuba, North Korea, or the Soviet Union. Insane as it may seem, there are many people who want this to happen, and some of them hold very powerful positions in the government and media.
Speaking of insane, Charles Manson’s master plan was to foment a race war in which blacks would rise up violently against American society. After whites who sided with the rampaging blacks and whites who tried to defend civilization had killed each other off, Manson would step in to rule the ruins, which blacks would welcome once they discovered they were not capable of governing themselves.
Maybe Charles Manson has been directing the whole Michael Brown/Eric Garner/Black Lives Matter spectacle from his prison cell. In a world where Barack Hussein Obama is the President of the USA, anything is possible.
PC MADNESS RAMPANT: This is all getting beyond parody and iint the realm of outrageous.
A little follow-up on
Khadijah Lynch, the Undergraduate Department Representative in the African and Afro-American Studies Department at Brandeis University who took to Twitter with obscenity-laden, barely literate bursts of bile celebrating the execution of New York City police officers
Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
Lynch resigned her position after Brandeis Daniel Mael drew attention to her outrageous statements on
Truth Revolt. Now it is Mael who is in
hot water — with other students:
On Monday, a throng of angry Brandeis students criticized Mael. Some suggested that the Brandeis administration should punish him for citing Lynch’s public tweets.
The email — entitled “VERY IMPORTANT: Holding Daniel Mael accountable, and other threats to student safety!” — claimed that “Mael has exposed Khadijah to the largely white supremacist following of the website.” (The website to which Piccione refers is Truth Revolt.)
Truth Revolt is the brainchild of its Editor in Chief
Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew. You might think his notable accomplishments would be appreciated at traditionally Jewish Brandeis. Yet Truth Revolt no doubt qualifies as a neo-Nazi website in the addled minds of liberal students, who would like anyone associated with it to be silenced for being “racist.”
Piccione isn’t the only intellectual brownshirt to come down on Mael for blowing the whistle:
On the
Brandeis Class of 2017 OFFICIAL page, a closed Facebook group, sophomore William Amara has written: “I am sorry that Khadijah has to put up with these f**ing ***holes publishing (and likely distorting) her private opinions to further incite racial hatred and oppression. I hope the university will stand with you if these ****suckers cause things to escalate further.”
You see the level of intellect and civility we “racists” are up against.
These students deserve pats on the head for faithfully regurgitating what their professors have been feeding them.
In the summer, Mael uncovered a huge listserv used by Brandeis professors containing several scary exchanges bashing conservatives, Jews and Christians. In one email, sociology professor Gordon Fellman shared an article suggesting that the Boston bombers were not motivated by an anti-American doctrine of Islamism, but instead driven by poverty and “cruel anti-immigrant policies of both Presidents Bush and Obama.”
Not even Obama is enough of a moonbat in academic loony-land.
At over $60,000 per year, tuition, fees, room, and board at Brandeis cost more than the median American household income. Whoever is paying for this is getting screwed.
Khadijah Lynch, prog princess.
THERE'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!
Why has this race pimp visited the WH over 80 times?
IT'S NOT AS THOUGH THEY'RE RACISTS OR ANYTHING
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS:
