The president, focused like a laser on the nation’s top problem, decided to give a nationally broadcast speech.
“On the basis of this simple principle of doing everything together, we are starting out on this nationwide attack on unemployment,” he said. “It will succeed if our people understand it ”” in the big industries, in the little shops, in the great cities and the small villages.”
It is time, he added, “for patience and understanding and cooperation.”
Barack Obama?
No, it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 77 years ago this month, in one of the most important “fireside chats” of his presidency.
And Obama’s answer is very much the same as Roosevelt’s:
Do everything possible to turn our Republic into a Socialist nation.
Roosevelt pushed us hard in that direction. The Obama administration with the collusion of Congress is pushing us much further. Have people been noticing the radical legislation that is being passed to nationalize huge chunks of our economy? What is that called? Hmm?
The Roosevelt quote implies that in order to support his agenda, you just have to be smart enough to understand. If we “get it:” then we will enthusiastically support it.
We better get it and understand it all right — in order to oppose it and save our nation from the hell created by the likes of Stalin and Mussolini.
Just sayin.
To quote Battlestar Galactica (and from Walt Disney’s Peter Pan :)) –
[blockquote]”All of this has happened before, and it will happen again.”[/blockquote]
The latest fun is the mainstream press and Democrat prevarication over extending unemployment benefits. The Republicans are again cast as the mean, uncaring party for not wanting to extend these benefits. Wrong – the Republicans are fine with extending the benefits as long as the money comes from already authorized funds sitting in the stimulus package so the national deficit is not increased. The Democrats refuse this and want to pack on another $30 billion or so in debt. I guess a crisis really is too good to waste for partisan politics and you just have to keep enough pork in reserve to give another payoff to your union buddy contributors.
Question: is capitalism a necessary component of christian theology?
Question: Is capitalism a component of our fallen nature?
Question: Is capitalism an acceptable system in the Kingdom of God?
While mindful of the needs of householders unemployed and/or under employed, I do not see a lot of job creation occurring through unemployment benefits. What DC needs to focus on are the impediments to job creation.
3, from where does value and money come?
#3, how have socialism and communism coexisted with religion as compared to capitalism? It’s easy to criticize capitalism but MUCH harder to find something superior to it.
Chris,
The questions are not criticisms. They are questions. You can plug socialism and communism into the questions and they do not change the force of them. Think about the questions in sequential order and consider the ramifications of an affirmative as well as a negative response. Augustine’s insight (Civitas Dei) into Christians’ relation to the city of man is still applicable. He wrote about it in the wake of the fall of Rome in 476 A.D.
Pax
Pax
Pax.
This is NOT really about Capitalism as such.
It is about an essentially Republican/democratic way of life.
Socialism has historically required dictatorship to enforce its methods. Dictatorships require total control; individual rights must be severely limited or suppressed. Because religion vitiates governmental control, it is inevitably seen as a threat to those in power who respond by trying to suppress it.
Look at history, and then try to take a look at the future — or even the present — and [i]see[/i] what we are in for.
Recently the Obama administration issued a directive that the phrase “freedom of worship” be used everywhere instead of “freedom of religion.” Freedom of “worship” only means that you can do what you want [i]inside a church[/i] — IF you can find one. The Soviet Union had freedom of “worship” and tore down almost all its churches. No religious expression was allowed in daily life.
By nationalizing industry the government takes more control of more of our lives. This is part of a more comprehensive process. Perhaps it is beyond salvaging already, but we need to not put our heads in the sand.