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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (774178)3/11/2014 10:00:14 AM
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Pope Francis is a conservative’s worst nightmare Pope Francis is on record as an anti-capitalist. He’s anti-inequality, wants more government policies favoring the poor, at a time when GOP budget czar Paul Ryan just keeps attacking the poor. The pontiff is against capitalism’s failed trickle-down theories. Against today’s global obsession with materialism, with growth economics and our excessive consumerism. He criticized capitalism’s “new and ruthless idolatry of money.” He also took the media to task as misguided in playing up a “two-point stock-market loss” while ignoring such news events as when “an elderly homeless person dies of exposure.”

Technology didn’t even escape the pope’s attack in his “Apostolic Exhortation.” Silicon Valley must have felt the sting when Francis blasted it for giving priority “to the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial and the provisional,” where “what is real gives way to appearances” and technology drives the “deterioration of cultural roots” in nations that are “economically advanced but ethically debilitated.”

Small wonder that conservatives like Paul Ryan, Bill O’Reilly, Chris Christy and Rush Limbaugh hate what he stands for ... because Pope Francis is driving a stake directly into the heart of the GOP’s capitalist theology. Remember, Francis delivered the ultimate pro-socialist attack on today’s Ayn Rand–Paul Ryan brand of conservatism: “Not to share one’s wealth with the poor is to steal from them.”
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