A Bit too Late, the Pope Speaks Out

THE NEW POPE, Francis whatever the number, a latin american who was born poor and whose parents came to the new world in desperation from italy, seems to be thoughful, intelligent, compassionate, and all that, but - a bit confusing. It has nothing to do with his one day telling the church to stop obsessing over sexual matters, then the next day obsessing over sexual matters, but rather, his take on economics. He very definitely is a friend of the poor man, that seems obvious. Working poor, unemployed poor, either way, he's on your side. Just yesterday he urged unemployed people the world over to fight for jobs, almost as if fomenting global revolution, or a war of the rich versus poor. (what a headline:Pope Calls For Socialist Revolution!) He also condemned the current global economic system for worshipping money like a god. He was real plain about that. An economic system must focus on and serve people, not money. We live in a throw away society and economy in which elderly people are discarded because they have less productivity, and younger people are discarded as well, for whatever reason he said, which i can't now recall. He sounded pretty intense about this. What's confusing is that some time ago, before he became pope, he gave an interview with a liberal american journalist which very much indicated that the then cardinal was/is a capitalist, and a capitalist for the same reasons why american conservatives are capitalists. You've heard all these reasons before: capitalism encourages freedom, freedom from government control. It produces wealth, which benefits all who work. Socialist, command economics, stifle the individual. And so on, and so forth. So be it. All well and good. But now he says that the world worships money, and that's a bad thing. Is it possible that His Holiness fails to understand that the worship of money is the very heart and soul of capitalism? Pope Francis flatly said theat he does not like the new world order, the new global economy, because it place money before people. Well, that's what capitalism does, your excellency. It seeks profits, and for that purpose it exploits resources, including, and indeed most particularly labor. To wit, workers are paid according to the prevailing markdet valu eof labor, not according to anyone's notion of what is fair or what is best for the worker. The freedom of capitalism is the freedom to not hire people, the frddeom to not start your own business, and to seek to work for someone else. The new world order he so despises is nothing other than international cartel corporate capitalism, set free, without any government restraint of any sort, free to do what it wishes to make profits. This seems to be what the world wants, at least for now. Whatever, its what the world has, what the world has created. Huge organizations, controlling the economy, the resources, the workers, and only now is the pope speaking out about it. Well, your holiness, it might be a bit too late.