Tapsearch Com EditorShared Sacrifice and the budget
April 30th 2012 15:52
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Congressman and church are both blind to the core issues of the impoverished.
The Catholic bishops sent letters to Congress saying Congressman Paul Ryan's budget passed by the House, "fails to meet" the moral criteria of the church. They emphasize the disproportional cuts in essential services to the poor and talk about shared sacrifice.
The problem goes much deeper than that. It is surrounds the problems of
our times with the value of workers and labor being degraded and deflated.
It is happening in a time when workers dignity is being ignored and where
even the business schools in Catholic colleges ignore the teaching of
business ethics. The problem even goes deeper than that. The covenant between worker and owners as noted in the teachings of Rerum Novarum has been broken. Workers have an ownership of their labor and free trade has come and stole their ownership away from them. Workers have been put on a global trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs with the lowest common denominator being wage slave and child
labor. How can anyone talk about equity of distribution of wealth when this
is happening. Free trade is a new wage slave trade. In the U.S., a new working poor class has replaced the middle class. The balance in our
economy has been lost. There is not enough money to pay the bills.
I hear people talk about keeping the Sunday holy but few talk about what
happens on Monday when the workday starts. The church parking lot on
Sundays is full of automobiles made in part by impoverished workers who
work around the clock for pennies per hour. Nothing good will happen until
we all identify what went wrong and why.
The matter of economic equity debate should start there. The core problem
is not how much money is paid out be it taxes or the cost of government services, but it is a more of a matter of how much money comes in. With the value of workers and labor being deflated, we lost an economic balance. There is an endless pool of workers in the world who will work for practically nothing to survive. If this is the balancing point, then everything else flows to the bottom like water automatically seeking it lowest level. Workers now are forced to shop their way out of their jobs. They are forced to live off
the suffering of others.
This also translate to purchasing power. If I have to spend time to make a major decision in buying a $100 computer item that once was took the same
amount of time and judgement to buy a $1000 computer item, something is very wrong with the whole economic system.
The globalist free traders like Congressman Ryan, Mitt Romney and President Obama will never make things match up. The free traders follow economic patterns where the value of workers keeps going down. This is the real value that pays the toll for government services and the power to shop for some thing at a higher price. If our free trader economists rest on deflation of labor, then not much good will follow who shares any sacrifice. If our free trader economists say the trade deficit is just an economic statistic, how can we expect anything more than what is happening now. It is a race to the bottom.
Both sides to the question of social justice are blind to the core problems
of our times. You can not pay Peter by robbing Paul. It never worked and never will. It is all about value added economies in as local of setting as possible in balanced geopolitical settings. It is about the common good.
--
Ray Tapajna
tapsearch@fastmail.net
Congressman and church are both blind to the core issues of the impoverished.
The Catholic bishops sent letters to Congress saying Congressman Paul Ryan's budget passed by the House, "fails to meet" the moral criteria of the church. They emphasize the disproportional cuts in essential services to the poor and talk about shared sacrifice.
The problem goes much deeper than that. It is surrounds the problems of
our times with the value of workers and labor being degraded and deflated.
It is happening in a time when workers dignity is being ignored and where
even the business schools in Catholic colleges ignore the teaching of
business ethics. The problem even goes deeper than that. The covenant between worker and owners as noted in the teachings of Rerum Novarum has been broken. Workers have an ownership of their labor and free trade has come and stole their ownership away from them. Workers have been put on a global trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs with the lowest common denominator being wage slave and child
labor. How can anyone talk about equity of distribution of wealth when this
is happening. Free trade is a new wage slave trade. In the U.S., a new working poor class has replaced the middle class. The balance in our
economy has been lost. There is not enough money to pay the bills.
I hear people talk about keeping the Sunday holy but few talk about what
happens on Monday when the workday starts. The church parking lot on
Sundays is full of automobiles made in part by impoverished workers who
work around the clock for pennies per hour. Nothing good will happen until
we all identify what went wrong and why.
The matter of economic equity debate should start there. The core problem
is not how much money is paid out be it taxes or the cost of government services, but it is a more of a matter of how much money comes in. With the value of workers and labor being deflated, we lost an economic balance. There is an endless pool of workers in the world who will work for practically nothing to survive. If this is the balancing point, then everything else flows to the bottom like water automatically seeking it lowest level. Workers now are forced to shop their way out of their jobs. They are forced to live off
the suffering of others.
This also translate to purchasing power. If I have to spend time to make a major decision in buying a $100 computer item that once was took the same
amount of time and judgement to buy a $1000 computer item, something is very wrong with the whole economic system.
The globalist free traders like Congressman Ryan, Mitt Romney and President Obama will never make things match up. The free traders follow economic patterns where the value of workers keeps going down. This is the real value that pays the toll for government services and the power to shop for some thing at a higher price. If our free trader economists rest on deflation of labor, then not much good will follow who shares any sacrifice. If our free trader economists say the trade deficit is just an economic statistic, how can we expect anything more than what is happening now. It is a race to the bottom.
Both sides to the question of social justice are blind to the core problems
of our times. You can not pay Peter by robbing Paul. It never worked and never will. It is all about value added economies in as local of setting as possible in balanced geopolitical settings. It is about the common good.
--
Ray Tapajna
tapsearch@fastmail.net
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