tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post8315587300997859910..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Pope on Financial CrisisFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-17878957737506475322008-12-11T18:44:00.000+00:002008-12-11T18:44:00.000+00:00Oh dear. He has not mentioned that four-letter wor...Oh dear. He has not mentioned that four-letter word, something made by God, and without which no-one has a place to lay their head, grow their food or apply their labour.<BR/><BR/><B>LAND</B><BR/><BR/>Without it, man is forced to accept whatever wages a gracious landowner may care to offer, or pay as much rent as the landowner can squeeze out, for the privilege of occupying that which was given to all of mankind by God.<BR/><BR/>Time for another encyclical, methinks, which finally nailed this down. Perhaps on the 120th anniversary of <I>Rerum Novarum</I> which buried the issue by conflating land with human artefacts and regarding both as "property".Physiocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682019625346594568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-70492296405574004972008-12-11T17:34:00.000+00:002008-12-11T17:34:00.000+00:00I am not sure that the Holy Father is well placed ...I am not sure that the Holy Father is well placed to speak about the financial crisis. It wasn't so long ago that the Institute for Religious Works aka the Vatican Bank, had its own crisis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-90422196828601669762008-12-11T14:34:00.000+00:002008-12-11T14:34:00.000+00:00Trouble is that the hardest working & thriftie...Trouble is that the hardest working & thriftiest are going to suffer the most.<BR/><BR/>The GREEDY SPIVS who caused this problem will get away with it ,Governments will bend over backwards to save the Banks & Big Corporations.<BR/><BR/>The poorest and oldest will die of Hypothermia and the SPIVS will get wealthier.nickbrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803733028691380861noreply@blogger.com