Tapsearch Com EditorA look at Pope Benedict Encyclical
July 16th 2009 23:41
Ray Tapajna looks at Pope Benedict economic and ethics encyclical - Charity in truth :
It comes down to this. Many say it is only human nature to buy things at cheapest prices possible without considering how the the prices were arrived at and how the prices affect human dignity in the workday and in all of society .
Jesus Christ gave us a practical solution - He said to unto others as you would have them do to you. Social Justice and the common good rests with the persons who prompt the practical solution first.
With globalization, shoppers shop their way out of their jobs because they do not consider all the ramifications related to their purchases and one of the best parts in Pope Benedict's encyclical is his pointing to the power consumers really have for the sake of change. Human nature serves us to seek what is good and to avoid what is not. This is perhaps the charity in truth, Pope Benedict proposes. He calls out for it not only as a Catholic thing. It flows from the natural good that that keeps sifting out the bad in an order of things.
Just imagine what could come about if consumers made a judgement call on what is good and what is bad for only about 25 percent of their purchases. Just imagine what would happen if companies like NIKE switch about 3 percent of their advertising budget in order for their workers to enjoy a living wage wherein they can buy more from the U.S.
It comes down to this. 20 cents an hour workers in the less prosperous nations can not afford to buy much including the very things they make let alone buy anything the more prosperous nations have left to sell.
At the same time, in the more prosperous nations, we now have a vast new working poor class that can not afford the cheaper imports. Insourcing and outsourcing is a debacle out of control.
The U.S. Government itself tested the waters many years ago. They sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956. It was supposed to be just a temporary program to test a process that would help out the Mexican and Central American economies while supplying U.S. consumers with cheaper goods. This temporary program never ended and it never worked.
After NAFTA was passed, more than 4,000 U.S. factories had been moved to Mexico alone. After getting it passed, President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso and ultimately other currencies in the world threatened by a domino effect. Clinton plugged the dike for awhile but it did not stop the flood of Mexican workers to America seeking economic survival. Free trade has been a massive failure for years but our economy grew into one that was based on making money on money instead of making things and those who design the process did not know how to stop it. These very same people are in charge of restoring our economies. They converted economies to making money on money instead of making things and are now bailing out big money that caused the problem in the first place.
Now the tariffs that were taken off products have been put on future generations in the bail out of big money and the financial communities. It became a matter of the old saying - you can pay me now or you can pay me later, but you will pay. We have installed these tariffs on future generations outside any real democratic process. And they will take the hit because the have no choice in the matter.
In this bewildered new world, the Pope finally responds and it looks like this response is one that is too little and has come too late to stop the surge of globalization.
However, it is not too late to start practicing Jesus's practical solution in doing unto others as you would have them do to you. See our review of Pope Benedict's encyclical at Tapsearch Com Chronicles and see more selections and commentaries at Tapart News Links
Click on Ray's site dedicated to the review of the Pope's encyclical
Who can stop the terror, Free Trade and Globalization have bred
It comes down to this. Many say it is only human nature to buy things at cheapest prices possible without considering how the the prices were arrived at and how the prices affect human dignity in the workday and in all of society .
Jesus Christ gave us a practical solution - He said to unto others as you would have them do to you. Social Justice and the common good rests with the persons who prompt the practical solution first.
With globalization, shoppers shop their way out of their jobs because they do not consider all the ramifications related to their purchases and one of the best parts in Pope Benedict's encyclical is his pointing to the power consumers really have for the sake of change. Human nature serves us to seek what is good and to avoid what is not. This is perhaps the charity in truth, Pope Benedict proposes. He calls out for it not only as a Catholic thing. It flows from the natural good that that keeps sifting out the bad in an order of things.
Just imagine what could come about if consumers made a judgement call on what is good and what is bad for only about 25 percent of their purchases. Just imagine what would happen if companies like NIKE switch about 3 percent of their advertising budget in order for their workers to enjoy a living wage wherein they can buy more from the U.S.
It comes down to this. 20 cents an hour workers in the less prosperous nations can not afford to buy much including the very things they make let alone buy anything the more prosperous nations have left to sell.
At the same time, in the more prosperous nations, we now have a vast new working poor class that can not afford the cheaper imports. Insourcing and outsourcing is a debacle out of control.
The U.S. Government itself tested the waters many years ago. They sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956. It was supposed to be just a temporary program to test a process that would help out the Mexican and Central American economies while supplying U.S. consumers with cheaper goods. This temporary program never ended and it never worked.
After NAFTA was passed, more than 4,000 U.S. factories had been moved to Mexico alone. After getting it passed, President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso and ultimately other currencies in the world threatened by a domino effect. Clinton plugged the dike for awhile but it did not stop the flood of Mexican workers to America seeking economic survival. Free trade has been a massive failure for years but our economy grew into one that was based on making money on money instead of making things and those who design the process did not know how to stop it. These very same people are in charge of restoring our economies. They converted economies to making money on money instead of making things and are now bailing out big money that caused the problem in the first place.
Now the tariffs that were taken off products have been put on future generations in the bail out of big money and the financial communities. It became a matter of the old saying - you can pay me now or you can pay me later, but you will pay. We have installed these tariffs on future generations outside any real democratic process. And they will take the hit because the have no choice in the matter.
In this bewildered new world, the Pope finally responds and it looks like this response is one that is too little and has come too late to stop the surge of globalization.
However, it is not too late to start practicing Jesus's practical solution in doing unto others as you would have them do to you. See our review of Pope Benedict's encyclical at Tapsearch Com Chronicles and see more selections and commentaries at Tapart News Links
Click on Ray's site dedicated to the review of the Pope's encyclical
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