Tapsearch Com EditorSpiritual disassociation from real world
April 9th 2010 17:46
By Ray Tapajna
Welcome to Socialist Capitalism - the marriage of Big Government to Big Money
In our society, many stand outside looking in. They shout out solutions to problems while ignoring their own part in the process.
They talk about the free market without defining what it is. They hide from the fact that the so called free market has ransacked the free enterprise system. Human Dignity in the workday has been betrayed. The two presidents in my lifetime who caused the most damage to society were President Franklin Roosevelt and President Ronald Reagan. Their political children turned out to be President Clinton, President Bush with President Obama marrying big government and big business in the celebration of Free Trade and Globalization.
The climax of the union of Roosevelt and Reagan came from two different directions. President Roosevelt pushed solutions for the economic mess in the 1930s flowing down from big government and federalism. President Reagan tried to do much of the same thing in his trickle down economic solutions from the private sector controlled by big money changers. In both attempts, workers remained standing outside looking in without any real voice in the matter. Now big government and the money changers control the flow of wealth. Something is very wrong when ten percent of the people control 100 percent of the wealth.
Rerum Novarum stood the test of history for almost a hundred years setting the stage for what the free enterprise system should be and how to provide a voice to workers who are outside looking in at the interactions of the money changers in both political parties and in the private sector. Free trade and Globalization came and smashed human dignity into pieces. Economies became based on making money on money instead of making things. Production was made portable -ready to be moved again and again for the sake of the cheapest labor. Workers were put on a world trading block to compete with each other for jobs down to the lowest levels of wage slave and even child labor.
The workday now stands out as the biggest problem in history. Our
forefathers tried to deal with it as such but again most of them too
were money changers and the starting line was economics and money not
freedom of the people. Adam Smith held workers as the core of society
and we still ignore this reality. Free traders use Adam Smith to defend their practices while ignoring Smith's reverence for workers.
Not until we define who we are and what we really all are about will we
be able to connect properly with one another. Church and communities are
what it is all about. It is about all stopping standing outside and looking
in. The church is an integral part of the workday because what happens in Sunday or Saturday worship should flow into Monday and the rest of the week. Communities and associations should begin this way. Worshippers who are employers who do not pay a living wage, failed in their faith. A president of a large chain of retail stores who personally works in a food kitchen feeding the hungry on a regular basis, but who does not pay a living wage to his workers, is a spiritual contradiction . Workers in places like Walmart need private and government assistence to survive. Still Walmart is pointed to as a model of economic success. This is a contradiction layed down by both big government and big business. And when worshippers become shoppers something else happens . They shop for the cheapest price no matter what while ignoring the sweatshops of the world. Most everything purchased to day has a trail of suffering behing it.
Today we live in a new kind Socialist Capitalism, where big government has merged with big money. Many from both side claim they are people of faith. All of us must considered our part in all of this and what we can do in big or little ways to change it.
Welcome to Socialist Capitalism - the marriage of Big Government to Big Money
In our society, many stand outside looking in. They shout out solutions to problems while ignoring their own part in the process.
They talk about the free market without defining what it is. They hide from the fact that the so called free market has ransacked the free enterprise system. Human Dignity in the workday has been betrayed. The two presidents in my lifetime who caused the most damage to society were President Franklin Roosevelt and President Ronald Reagan. Their political children turned out to be President Clinton, President Bush with President Obama marrying big government and big business in the celebration of Free Trade and Globalization.
The climax of the union of Roosevelt and Reagan came from two different directions. President Roosevelt pushed solutions for the economic mess in the 1930s flowing down from big government and federalism. President Reagan tried to do much of the same thing in his trickle down economic solutions from the private sector controlled by big money changers. In both attempts, workers remained standing outside looking in without any real voice in the matter. Now big government and the money changers control the flow of wealth. Something is very wrong when ten percent of the people control 100 percent of the wealth.
Rerum Novarum stood the test of history for almost a hundred years setting the stage for what the free enterprise system should be and how to provide a voice to workers who are outside looking in at the interactions of the money changers in both political parties and in the private sector. Free trade and Globalization came and smashed human dignity into pieces. Economies became based on making money on money instead of making things. Production was made portable -ready to be moved again and again for the sake of the cheapest labor. Workers were put on a world trading block to compete with each other for jobs down to the lowest levels of wage slave and even child labor.
The workday now stands out as the biggest problem in history. Our
forefathers tried to deal with it as such but again most of them too
were money changers and the starting line was economics and money not
freedom of the people. Adam Smith held workers as the core of society
and we still ignore this reality. Free traders use Adam Smith to defend their practices while ignoring Smith's reverence for workers.
Not until we define who we are and what we really all are about will we
be able to connect properly with one another. Church and communities are
what it is all about. It is about all stopping standing outside and looking
in. The church is an integral part of the workday because what happens in Sunday or Saturday worship should flow into Monday and the rest of the week. Communities and associations should begin this way. Worshippers who are employers who do not pay a living wage, failed in their faith. A president of a large chain of retail stores who personally works in a food kitchen feeding the hungry on a regular basis, but who does not pay a living wage to his workers, is a spiritual contradiction . Workers in places like Walmart need private and government assistence to survive. Still Walmart is pointed to as a model of economic success. This is a contradiction layed down by both big government and big business. And when worshippers become shoppers something else happens . They shop for the cheapest price no matter what while ignoring the sweatshops of the world. Most everything purchased to day has a trail of suffering behing it.
Today we live in a new kind Socialist Capitalism, where big government has merged with big money. Many from both side claim they are people of faith. All of us must considered our part in all of this and what we can do in big or little ways to change it.
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