Firmly placed within a den of thieves
That Vatican envoy to the UN, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi has repeated a mantra which has become so common in the Church today that you never read a whiff of criticism about it, despite the fact that it’s a hysterical Marxist rant.
The Google translation reveals:
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, insisted during the annual International Labour Conference to better protect workers. At the same time he praised SMEs. “In 2014 was 1% of the world 48% of the wealth in the world,” said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, who believes that it has become practically impossible to unemployment worldwide still below the level before the financial crisis of 2008 back penetrate. According to Tomasi we can no longer put our trust in the laws of the market to solve problems. “Combating global poverty requires a special effort and forces of governments, workers, labor organizations, civil society and all the private partners.” That should contribute according to Archbishop Tomasi to better protection of workers against unemployment and illness. Tomasi still urged for support to SMEs because they “are crucial to the economic recovery.”
What is the ‘law of the market’ anyway? Isn’t it just one man paying his own dollar to someone offering a dollar’s worth of something in return? If that’s a ‘law’ then whose law is it?
Among that group of wonderful contributors to this new non-market solution I’ve noticed only one actually pays anything. Those are the ‘private partners.’ These are the business leaders who hope to be first in line to back-stab their competitors in the hopes they’ll receive some sort of government reward or relief. Every other party to the good archbishop’s poverty saving effort is a payee, as is the Church, unfortunately.
A pair of new prescription glasses costs hundreds of dollars after you pay the monthly insurance premiums. Why? They’re not iPhones. It’s because the process is so tied up with medical, insurance, and workplace regulatory schemes that we have no choice but to pay that.
Prescription glasses are actually worth about thirty dollars, and there are plenty of people who would be happy and willing to provide them at that price, but they aren’t permitted. There are just so many do-gooders that target you evil market people and your dollars for love of the poor, that we must pay, pay, and pay.
I’ve read plenty of Jesus’ parables about kings, and farmers, and tax collectors; about fishermen, and shepherds. I’ve never read anything against property or in praise of scams.
What did Archbishop Tomasi do for lunch today?