Sunday, March 2, 2014

The Pope

The Pope has his shit together.

In a recent article about him in Rolling Stone magazine, remarks he made about income inequality are summarized as follows:

"He describes a "culture of prosperity" that "deadens us" to the misery of the poor: "All those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us." Debt, corruption, tax evasion, mass layoffs ("attempting to increase profits by reducing the workforce and thereby adding to the ranks of the excluded") and environmental degradation all come under attack. Some people, Francis wrote, "continue to defend trickle-down theories, a belief that "has never been confirmed by the facts" and one that "expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power............Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting."

I could just kiss him.

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