The Pope & Godless Capitalism

**MizMotown** · May-03-13, 06:45 AM

"This is called slave labor," said Pope Francis.

The Holy Father was referring to the $40 a month paid to apparel workers at that eight-story garment factory in Bangladesh that collapsed on top of them, killing more than 400.

"Not paying a just wage ... focusing exclusively on the balance books, on financial statements, only looking at personal profit.

That goes against God!"

The pope is describing the dark side of globalism.

http://news.yahoo.com/pope-godless-c...070000572.html

**Crumbled_pavement** · May-03-13, 07:11 AM

The Pope is a communist. He's not the person we should be listening to in matters regarding the free market.

**ghettopalmetto** · May-03-13, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Crumbled_pavement

The Pope is a communist. He's not the person we should be listening to in matters regarding the free market.

Pat Buchanan, who wrote the piece, is a communist too, huh?

**JBMcB** · May-03-13, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by ghettopalmetto

Pat Buchanan, who wrote the piece, is a communist too, huh?

He's a neo-conservative corporatist/statist. Probably closer to what the Pope really is.

**Honky Tonk** · May-03-13, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by JBMcB

He's a neo-conservative corporatist/statist. Probably closer to what the Pope really is.

I thought he was Catholic????

**rb336** · May-03-13, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by Crumbled_pavement

The Pope is a communist. He's not the person we should be listening to in matters regarding the free market.

So we should listen to the corporations who are more than ready to put innocent lives on the line as long as they can keep paying themselves millions of dollars in salary and bonuses?

**Honky Tonk** · May-03-13, 01:10 PM

WHEW! For a second, I thought the stock holders were going to lose money!

http://tinyurl.com/bqkfj3y

**MizMotown** · May-03-13, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by rb336

So we should listen to the corporations who are more than ready to put innocent lives on the line as long as they can keep paying themselves millions of dollars in salary and bonuses?

I thought the article had some merit. It's all about the PROFIT they are making. They don't give a damn about anything else except their lifestyles of the rich and famous.

CEO's, presidents, owners of these companies live in another world and they just don't care. I liked the show Undercover Boss... at least some of them seen a whole different reality.

**MizMotown** · May-03-13, 01:17 PM

The accident sparked off concerns about the safety record in Bangladeshi factories, which are used for their cheap labour by Western retailers.

[[says it all... welcome to the land of narcissistic b*stards)

**old guy** · May-03-13, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by MizMotown

The accident sparked off concerns about the safety record in Bangladeshi factories, which are used for their cheap labour by Western retailers.

[[says it all... welcome to the land of narcissistic b*stards)

Welcome to the future. It ain't gonna be very pretty if everyone's a lemming.

**Jimaz** · May-03-13, 09:04 PM

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Noam Chomsky: Can civilisation survive really existing capitalism?

14:47: There have been serious academic debates over the years about whether Capitalism is in principle consistent with Democracy. But if we talk about "really existing" Capitalism, the question is answered. It's certainly not. The really existing Capitalist Democracy, for short: RECD, you can pronounce it "wrecked" if you'd like, they are radically incompatible. That's easily demonstrated....