It’s endless Pope Mania. The news cycle is dominated by the pontiff’s
U.S. visit and I’m already sick of it. I’m
especially irked at being lectured to by a third world Marxist, global warming
fanatic who believes the golden rule exempts invasions.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I can tell you most definitely, I would not bust
into my neighbors house and then take his job.
Nor would I squat in the middle of his living room and drop an anchor
baby then hand him a bill demanding payment for food, clothing, shelter,
education, and medical care. But somehow
this pope believes the “immigrant” cause is just and American citizens are a
bunch of wasteful, greedy bastards who are contaminating the planet with
voracious consumerism.
Why is it always Americas fault? Why don’t liberals and this pope point
fingers at Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and the rest of the third world? Why doesn’t anyone address the causes of a
mass migration from Latin America?
The answer is simple. The policies that Pope Francis and his liberal
buddies lecture us on are the root cause for the economic disaster in Latin
America. If liberals are successful,
they could turn the U.S. into a third world hell hole too.
Here are some of the basic principles for a country’s
economic success:
- The rule of law
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- Limited government
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- Cheap dependable energy
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- Property rights
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- Abolishment of punitive taxation and regulations
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- Christian Morality and culture
Alexis de Tocqueville made the following
observation:
The Constitution of the United States is akin to
those fine creations of human endeavor which crown their inventors with renown
and wealth but remain sterile in other hands.
Contemporary Mexico has illustrated this very thing.
The Mexicans, aiming for a federal system, took the federal constitution of
their neighbors, the Anglo-Americans, as their model and copied it almost
exactly. But although they transported the letter of the law, they failed to
transfer at the same time the spirit which gave it life. As a result, they
became tangled endlessly in the machinery of their double system of government.
The sovereignty of states and Union entered into a collision course as they
exceeded the sphere of influence assigned to them by the constitution. Even
today Mexico veers constantly from anarchy to military despotism and back again.
Tocqueville
further observed:
To the south, the Union has
one point of contact with the Mexican Empire, where one day serious wars may
well develop. But for a long time to come the backward state of civilization,
the degeneration of its morals, and its extreme poverty will stand in the way
of any hope of achieving high status among nations
Mexico has vast energy resources. However, their country is corrupt. The oil industry is state owned. Graft and bribes are common, if not expected.
Reuters identified more than 100 Pemex
contracts signed between 2003 and 2012, worth $11.7 billion, that were cited as
having serious problems by the Federal Audit Office of the lower house of the
Mexican Congress. The allegations ranged from overcharging for shoddy work to
outright fraud. The deals were worth about 8 percent of the $149 billion in
Pemex contracts registered in Mexico’s federal contracting database in that
period.
Pemex almost always disregards these
warnings. From 2008 to 2012, the most recent year of available data, the
congressional auditors issued 274 recommendations that Pemex take serious
action over contract irregularities – either press criminal charges, discipline
employees or claw back money.
The company issued responses to 268 of
the cases. In only three of them was action taken. The result: A handful of
employees received suspensions. Pemex’s internal control office dismissed
157 of the cases. As of last month, 108 were unresolved.
“In Mexico, no one gets punished,”
said Arturo Gonzalez de Aragon, a former head of the Federal Audit Office, known
in Mexico by its Spanish acronym, ASF. “If you don’t punish anyone, impunity
becomes a perverse incentive for corruption.”
Pope Francis should address the
causation of the third world’s poverty instead of importing their problems to
America. The world will not benefit by
turning the United States into a third world hellhole. It maybe a small world, but it needn’t be one
replete with poverty and despair.
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