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We also made sure the TR1 had an awesome FSA Mega Exo triple crankset powering a Shimano Tiagra/Deore drivetrain. This ensures split-second, smooth, and precise shifting, and all kinds of versatility for long climbs, rolling terrain, or on-the-fly acceleration. TR1 also comes equipped with Kenda 700c x 32 tires--these extra few millimeters of width add to the comfort for long rides. We also threw in an alloy rear rack that is pannier ready--all you need is a map and a dream...this bike has everything else covered for comfortable, worry-free touring.
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Great, versatile bike for the bucks
By Jack
from Northern Virginia
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Comments about Nashbar TR1 Touring Bike:
I bought the bike to be a multi-role machine. As such I did not expect road bike light weight and performance, but am pleasantly surprised as to just how much this bike does for the investment. I use the TR1 to commute to meetings, 60-100 mile day rides and multi-day touring,, on both paved and unpaved surfaces. The 105 set up is perfect for my uses. I have one 44 mile round trip commute that I take regularly with 1800 ft of climbing (max 15%) in which I ride on rutted and cracked roads and streets as well as sandy gravel. The TR1 meets the bill in that it can take a load, give good speed performance, survive crashes (I have broken my own bones but not the bike) and you don't to worry about beating it up like you would a carbon road bike.I swap seats out when I do long distance touring, and use Shimano SPDL pedals/cleats instead of cages, but the basic bike out of the box is 85% of the way there, with a price that lets you do a lot of personalization.My only real complaint on the spec is that the Tektro brakes are inadequate for loaded touring or fast stops from speed. I cooked off a couple of sets of pads in the first thousand miles, so consider upgrading those right away if you are an aggressive rider, like me.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great bike
By joe
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This bike is fantastic. I've had it a year now and put a few thousand miles on it during that time including some 100 mile+ fully loaded-weekend tours.The components are of surprisingly high quality -- especially the shimano 105 gears and shifters. The frame is solid and I haven received a lot of complements. I swapped out the saddle for a leather one and am going to swap out the pedals soon for something nicer. The fork is of low-grade high tensile steel, which is why I gave it four out of five stars, but otherwise, this is the best money can buy and I highly recommend it.
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Great out of the box experience
By AlaBike
from Birmingham, AL
Well, it took 3 delivery tries before I got a properly packed carton. Had to refuse the first 2 bikes because the fork had punched through the flimsy cardboard, scratching the paint. The 3rd time a supervisor took note and that delivery was in a decent box and was fine.A fantastic bargain, basically 2 discounts and I got it for less than $800.That said, out of the box, on my bike stand, and ready to ride in less than an hour. No brake or shifter adjustments needed, and the wheels were almost spot-on true. Shake-down ride was big fun, absolutely no issues. Obviously I can't say how the bike will behave under load now, but it feels very stable.I already know I'll need a longer stem and the included petals are throw-aways. It would be nice if Nashbar sold the same brand quill stem in different sizes.
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By S. Mateo
from Minnesota
I purchased this bike in April and toured New England in July. The bike performed well and has solid touring fetaures. After the steep hills of CT (I kid you not) I will be changing the gears since the lowest gear is close but just not clse enough for the steepest grades with a fully loaded bike and ahem I am 55 yrs old in OK shape. Crank - 48-36-24 might have been better a few times.
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By scuba steve
from earth
About Me Casual/ Recreational
Bough this bike a few weeks ago as an alternative to the $1000+ touring bikes( Salsa, Surly, Novara, etc...) This is the first bike I've spent more than $100 on, and my first drop bar bike. Its taken some getting use to, but I've have ridden about 70 miles on it and so far I've been very pleased with it. Its very comfortable, fast and I think it will be great when it has a load on it. It will be used for some long distance touring later this year, so that will be the real test. I'm 5'7" or 5'8", I got the 53cm and it fits me very well. I put a brooks saddle on it, and some new bar tape and now its really comfortable. The bike weighs about 29-30LBS with the new saddle on it. There was a small amount of paint that was scuffed up near the front fork when I got it, but other than that no issues. I would definitely recommend this. Hope this review is helpful to someone
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Well made and assembled
By Martywoodman
from Nashville, Tn.
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All components worked great right out of the box. Only needed slight adjustment on rear brake. I like the extra brake levers on the bar tops! The 35mm tires with 80 psi and steel frame/fork really absorb the road buzz and make for a smooth ride. It is 1 lb. lighter than my aluminum bike! The shifting is intuitive and I like the ability to shift up or down in the drops, something I cannot do on my other bikes. Awesome, well made product which will last a long time!
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Looks like and Excellent Bike But.....
By Some Old Guy
from SoCal
This appears to be an excellent touring bike with the exception of the gearing. I suppose that if one is young and as strong as the proverbial ox and carries 25 pounds of gear the 30-32 low gear may work but for us older guys who carry 50-60 pounds it will not cut it. I live in a mountainous area and I have the gearing of this bike on my road bike and there is no way I would attempt a serious tour with this kind of gearing on any bike. My touring bike (built on a Nashbar Aluminum frame BTW) has a Deore mountain bike crankset (44-32-22) and an 11-34 cassette. I have yet to find a hill I could not get up with a full load with this gearing. To conclude, in my opinion the gearing on this bike (TR1) is not going to cut it for serious touring. I see "touring" bikes all over the Internet with this kind of gearing and I do not understand it. It may be done so road brake/shifters can be used which are cool and easy to use but may not or may not shift a mountain bike drive train well. If you buy this bike consider changing the cassette, chain rings or crank and shifters and possibly the front derailleur. I use a Nashbar "treking" bar with Sram Attack twist shifters and am very pleased with the comfort and utility of the setup. Bar end shifters might be a cheaper and easier conversion. The supplied shifters might work fine with the lower gearing too. These changes could be an additional $200 of expense (if you do the work yourself) but the bike is priced well enough to justify it and will make this a serious touring bike. If I was going to start over again I would buy this bike and upgrade it rather than going to the work and expense of building from the frame up. PS I have toured 300 miles of Highway 1 on the California Coast and 1200 miles from Southern California to Del Rio, Texas, so I do have some basis for my remarks.
(7 of 9 customers found this review helpful)
affordable touring bike
By djangoman
from Champaign, Il
this bike would seem to be a good value; only time will tell. I am told in the bicycling world there are not all that many frame makers. that being true it makes little sense to ride a bike just for the maker recognition at a higher price. I switched out the pedals and seat though.
(36 of 38 customers found this review helpful)
Best value touring bike on the market
By Biker Tim
from Wisconsin
I have been researching pure touring bikes for a while and kept coming back to the Nashbar TR1. You will not find anything else that comes close to the quality vs price point. I use to be a bicycle mechanic for 5 years. I am no master but I have built plenty of entry level to pro quality road and mountain bikes so I know how much adjustment new bikes need. The bike was packed very well and the build was easier than expected. The brake pads were nearly centered perfect and the derailleurs hardly needed adjusting. The wheels needed light truing but nothing too involved. The rear rack was already attached and the handle bars were wrapped and the brake/shift levers installed. I showed this bike to a friend and he was so impressed he ordered the exact same one! I built that one too and everything I just said mirrored his bike.What really sold me on this bike was the drivetrain. It has a modern, external bottom bracket with FSA triple crank and Tiagra shift/brake levers. They shift as nice and smooth as my 10 year old Ultegra brake/shift levers. I know bar end shifters have fewer moving parts and are more of the "standard" for a touring bike, I chose the integrated shift/brake levers for a little more performance. The rear derailleur on my TR1 came with Shimano 105 but the description states a Deore rear. I also love the brake levers on the handlebar tops.The frame has all the front and rear rack attachment points needed along with fender attachments. You can't go wrong with a double butted 4130 chromoly steel frame.(same frame material as many other big name touring bikes). It is solid and absorbs all the bumps in the road and I love the deep green frame color. I am 6'2" and the 59 cm fits me perfectly. I purchased this bike to have a more comfortable commute to work and to start doing some serious multi day touring. I just returned from a 5 day 600 mile tour and am completely happy with this bike. I packed about 25 lbs of gear (my first packed tour) and felt the bike handled very well. I did break one spoke but I think that was due to low spoke tension that I have since corrected. Possible upgrades for the future will be to go with a threadless headset to allow for more position options. I would also like to see a replaceable derailleur hanger and a couple more water bottle mounts under the down tube.Go ahead and compare everything else on the market to the TR1. You won't find anything close. Here is a hint: Nashbar has some exceptional sales from time to time. Wait for them and make your purchase.
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…Ralph observed the boy with interest. He was the right kind of boy, a boy sure to like peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. Since the day Keith had left the hotel, Ralph had longed for crumbs of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. Ralph could not understand the boy's behavior. He had often heard other young guests wearing the same kind of white T-shirt speak of a place called camp, but unlike this boy they always sounded eager and excited about going there. Ralph did not know exactly what a camp was, but since medium-sized boys and girls went there, he thought it must be a place where people ate peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches.
…The desk clerk summoned old Matt, the elderly bellboy and hotel handyman, to show the family to their room. As Matt picked up their suitcases and led the way to the elevator, he said to Garf, "Well, young fellow, what are you going to have for breakfast tomorrow? Apple pie or chocolate cake?"' Matt, who was not always popular with parents, was always liked by children.
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Peanut butter was an integral part of my childhood; how many afternoons found me perched in the branches of the tree in the front yard, book in one hand, peanut butter sandwich in the other? Peanut butter was my culinary playground, the foil for oh so many different flavors. I experimented often, playing around with texture and taste, savoring each unlikely combination: spread and layered with sweet, soft bananas and salty, crispy potato chips, or sandwiched between white bread pressed up against slices of salami or bologna or pickles, or simply gooey and sticky on white bread, using fingers to push clumps off the roof of my mouth, or melting smooth and unctuous on warm toast, and peanut butter on matzo got me through the Passover week. Peanut butter snuggling down into the smooth groove of a branch of celery seemed oh-so grown up when I was a kid, the sharp crack then the crunch of the green vegetable, a mouthful of cool followed by the creamy is something sensual and refreshing like lying on sheets and feeling the warm breeze flutter over your body. Peanut butter and jelly, grape or cherry, the jelly was always secondary, just another flavor to highlight the peanut butter and, more often than not, I simply forewent the jelly. Creamy or crunchy, depending on my mood, hopping from one brand to another, ever-changing like my temperament, even going through my all-natural, 100% pure peanuts phase. Yet the need – and the taste - for peanut butter stayed with me, through childhood as I explored my emotions and my tastebuds, the two ever linked in a holy embrace, through my college years, comforting me when I needed comforting, a way to travel home when nostalgia yanked at my heart, through my adulthood, a way to pull me to a warm, culturally reassuring place.
Peanut butter is such an emotionally charged food. There is something so primal about it, bringing out the best – or the worst – in us, turning us back into children, purring in all of our innocence, sighing with wide-eyed delight, or growling like some beast from a deep, dark netherworld battling something fanged and evil. In other words, either one loves it or despises it with a passion. My mother bought the stuff for us but couldn't stand it herself. The smell alone made her get up and leave the room, grumbling under her breath. I have one son who loves it, eating sandwich after sandwich, a purist at heart he'll eat it no other way, and one son who wants nothing whatsoever to do with it. My husband dislikes it and refuses to see the attraction, but, then again, he's French, so what does he know of peanut butter?
And curiously, dogs love the stuff. We got such a huge kick out of feeding spoonfuls of peanut butter to our English setter, Peewee, when we were kids, laughing uproariously as she struggled to eat it, her tongue glued to the roof of her mouth. And I discovered that it brings out the wild animal in Marty: this photograph is witness to the fact. Snapping pictures of peanut butter to illustrate this post, I inadvertently forget the open jar on our dining room floor. A bit later as I was in the kitchen preparing to make the biscotti, I heard horrible, utterly disgusting slurping noises coming from the other room. What in the world could it be? Put my head around the corner and found Marty up to his globular eyeballs in my very expensive jar of Skippy, lapping it up for all he was worth. Egads! Lucky for me I had a second unopened jar!
Peanut butter is extremely versatile and can be used in both sweet and savory treats; from cookies to sate to pies to curries to, well, basically anything. Kim at Ordinary Recipes Made Gourmet is this week's Blogger Secret Ingredient host. She has decided that peanut butter is our BSI. Yay Kim! Great choice! I have made not one but two wonderful recipes using peanut butter, one sweet for snack time and one savory for a great meal.
Let's start with the savory:
From my Better Homes & Garden New Cookbook (this is meant for ribs, but I prefer cooking chicken at home)
Chicken pieces (I bought enough for 4 of us: 2 leg-thigh sections and 1 breast filet, skin on)
¼ cup hot water
¼ cup peanut butter
2 Tbs lime juice
2 Tbs sliced scallions or spring onions
½ tsp grated fresh ginger
¼ tsp cayenne pepper
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).
Trim excess skin and fat off of the chicken pieces. I separated the legs from the thighs. Line a large baking pan with foil.
Put the peanut butter in a small saucepan and gradually stir in the hot water until smooth. Stir in the lime juice, spring onion, grated ginger and the cayenne. Cook over low heat until warmed through.
Brush the chicken pieces on both sides and lay them on the foil-lined baking tray. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until cooked through to the bone.
Serve with the rest of the sauce, warmed to thin, in a small bowl. Delicious!
And now for the sweet, to calm our biscotti yen (click here and here to see my other biscotti):
2 ¾ cup flour
1 ¾ cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup peanut butter
¼ cup water
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup chocolate chips or chocolate chunks (I used mini chips)
1 cup roasted, unsalted peanuts (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
In a large mixing bowl, blend the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together. Stir in the chocolate chips.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the water and the peanut butter until the peanut butter is "melted", thinned and smooth. Whisk in the eggs.
Pour the wet ingredients over the dry ingredients and, using a wooden spoon, stir until all the dry is moistened and you have a dough. Biscotti dough is fairly wet and sticky, but it should be dry enough to easily pat into a log shape. Knead briefly in a bit of extra flour until homogenous and smooth.
Line a large baking sheet with parchment. Divide the biscotti dough into two and pat into two long logs, about 3 inches wide. Place on the baking sheet and pat and press into shape.
Bake in the preheated oven for 35 – 40 minutes until lightly browned and set in the center.
Remove from the oven without turning the oven off. Allow the biscotti to rest for 10 minutes.
Carefully slide the logs off the baking sheet onto a cutting board. Using a sharp bread knife, slice each log on the diagonal into even slices about ¾-inch wide.
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A bill requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls was endorsed Wednesday by a North Carolina House Committee.
Republicans in the House Elections Committee overcame solid Democratic opposition to advance the bill, 23-11. The vote followed more than two hours of mostly unsuccessful amendments from Democrats who wanted to broaden the forms of acceptable ID and ease restrictions.
Voter ID is a contentious issue nationally and on the state level. Republican lawmakers say it ensures election integrity but Democrats label it an attempt to suppress voter turnout in the name of a problem that lacks documented proof.
The first of three committee votes capped off a monthlong series of hearings to gather input from supporters and opponents. The bill heads to the Finance Committee on Thursday, followed by the Appropriations Committee and a full vote on the House floor next week.
It would require voters to present one of eight forms of state-issued ID or an ID from a public college, beginning in 2016. Voters who lack ID on Election Day could cast a provisional ballot, but it wouldn't be counted unless they return to a local board of election with ID before results are reviewed. A failed amendment from Rep. Deborah Ross, D-Wake, would have allowed voters to mail in an affidavit signed under penalty of perjury instead of returning in person.
Under the latest version, registered voters who say they don't have a copy of a birth certificate or marriage license could obtain a special ID free of charge. A previous version required a sworn statement of financial hardship enforced under penalty of perjury.
Democrats failed to muster enough votes for amendments adding IDs from the state's private colleges and public high schools to the list of acceptable forms, but another amendment adding ID for recipients of public assistance passed. Rep. Ruth Samuelson, R-Mecklenburg and a primary sponsor of the bill, said private schools were left out intentionally because they blur the line of what's acceptable.
An amendment from bill sponsors removed tribal IDs from the list of accepted forms, saying further research was needed to determine whether they would comply with the act. Rep. Harry Warren, R-Rowan and a bill sponsor, said most tribes in the state aren't federally recognized and don't carry government-issued IDs.
Kicking off debate after amendments went through were Democratic lawmakers who recalled the pains of the Civil Rights era and the hard-fought gains for voter equality.
Rep. Evelyn Terry, D-Forsyth, said she remembers the feeling of seeing her illiterate grandfather finally cast a vote after being turned away from the polls again and again during her childhood.
"I simply have the picture of those times in my mind, and therefore there is just nothing, even in spite of all the work and all the due diligence that could happen, that would make me support something that lends itself to making it so difficult for an American citizen to go and cast a vote," she said.
Rep. Marilyn Avila, R-Wake, said Terry painted a moving portrait, but the days when voters knew the poll workers checking them in are long past, and the state needs a modern election system that protects against the potential for fraud.
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Grant Gallicho April 29, 2014 - 10:02am
Yesterday Pope Francis took to Twitter to launch a new phase of Catholic Social Teaching. With just seven words he shook the foundations of the Catholic moral universe: "Inequalty is the root of social evil," Francis wrote. Both Catholic and non-Catholic observers alike struggled to find their bearings. Joe Carter of the social-justice think tank the Acton Institute responded quickly: "Um, no it's not. Hate and apathy are the roots of social evil." He wondered whether Francis had "traded the writings of Peter and Paul for Piketty"--the economist whose latest book on the unfairness of capitalism has become a global phenomenon.
Catholic Culture poobah Phil Lawler also expressed skepticism, calling the pope's tweet "a fairly radical statement, [and] as an a piece of economic analysis a very simplistic one." He decided that the best way to understand Francis's tweet was to go to the original Latin: that "version of this tweet is even simpler: Iniquitas radix malorum. That phrase has a somewhat different meaning." Lawler's Latin expertise leads him to assert that "iniquitas" might also mean "iniquity" or "injustice," which would "make more sense," even though the Spanish version of the tweet "admittedly looks more like the English."
Non-Catholic Mollie Hemingway was likewise confused. "I don't understand what this is supposed to mean, exactly," she tweeted, later suggesting "envy and coveting" were really to blame for social evil. Former Catholic Rod Dreher found himself flummoxed too: "What does that even mean?" He continued: "Twitter pronouncements like the Pope's are simplistic and confusing."
It's true. Twitter is not an ideal place to advance complex moral arguments. Wouldn't it be better if the pope developed some of this at greater length, in, say, some sort of letter to the faithful? He might even consider exhorting his people in an apostolic manner, for example, with a title like Evangelii Gaudium or some such, perhaps under a section heading reading "The Economy and the Distribution of Income." Come again? He's done just that? Over the course of several paragraphs? And it's been publicly available for months? Oh. Roll tape.
Way back in November 2013, Pope Francis released his first major document, Evangelii Gaudium. Maybe you remember it. Scroll to number 202, and here's what you'll find:
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, [173] no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that matter, to any problems. Inequality is the root of social ills.
He goes on:
The dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies. At times, however, they seem to be a mere addendum imported from without in order to fill out a political discourse lacking in perspectives or plans for true and integral development. How many words prove irksome to this system! It is irksome when the question of ethics is raised, when global solidarity is invoked, when the distribution of goods is mentioned, when reference in made to protecting labour and defending the dignity of the powerless, when allusion is made to a God who demands a commitment to justice.
And on:
We can no longer trust in the unseen forces and the invisible hand of the market. Growth in justice requires more than economic growth, while presupposing such growth: it requires decisions, programmes, mechanisms and processes specifically geared to a better distribution of income, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality. I am far from proposing an irresponsible populism, but the economy can no longer turn to remedies that are a new poison, such as attempting to increase profits by reducing the work force and thereby adding to the ranks of the excluded.
[Update: David Gibson reports that Vatican officials have confirmed that Pope Francis personally approves all his tweets.]
Is this really news to Catholics and those who have been Catholic and those who profess to follow Catholicism closely? Popes--including the two who were just canonized--have been teaching this sort of thing for a really long time. Here's John Paul II: "The disproportionate distribution of wealth and poverty and the existence of some countries and continents that are developed and of others that are not call for a levelling out and for a search for ways to ensure just development for all." What's more, he writes:
Thus, not only the sphere of class is taken into consideration but also the world sphere of inequality and injustice, and as a consequence, not only the class dimension but also the world dimension of the tasks involved in the path towards the achievement of justice in the modern world. A complete analysis of the situation of the world today shows in an even deeper and fuller way the meaning of the previous analysis of social injustices; and it is the meaning that must be given today to efforts to build justice on earth, not concealing thereby unjust structures but demanding that they be examined and transformed on a more universal scale.
But now Pope Francis comes along and suddenly the Catholic and non-Catholic American right goes all Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer? Now they're frightened and confused by Francis's strange moral arguments? Give me a break. The Catholic Church has never baptized the boat-lifting abilities of American-style capitalism. That's never been a secret. Of course, if you get your Catholic Social Teaching mainly from U.S. conservatives, especially those who are fond of marking papal texts in red and gold, you might find Francis's tweet frightening and confusing. But it's really not.
Unless you've been living in a cave.
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Any good evangelist knows his audience.
I don't think Papa Francesco worries too much about the "Carters," the "Lawlers" or the "Hemingways" of the world who frequently appear to have infused knowledge about "the foundations of the Catholic moral universe."
I would speculate that all those years riding the bus around Buenos Aires rubbing shoulders with real people may have shaped this pope's sense of social inequality.
Perfectly expressed, Grant. The reason Francis of Assissi embraced poverty was mainly to point out that all wars and conflicts are motivated by greed. So by setting an example he directed others to look at the more excellent way. Which another guy by the name of Paul also showed. One can vacilate over Evangelium Gaudium by saying this meant that and this does not mean what it says. But a twitter tweet of the essence is unavoidable. There is just no other exegesis available. Amazing irony that people are perplexed by words which say exactly what Francis has been saying from the beginning.
Will Michael Novak now give up his gold chains? Will George Weigel allow poor people to join the Ethics and Public Policy center? Will Timothy Dolan settle for a more modest Cathedral? Will Frank Langone disavow Mitt Romney?
Jesus said it long ago that it is difficult tor the rich person to enter heaven. Mainly, because s/he feels the riches are hers not a gift of God which are better shared than invested in the fifteenth yacht. Yet too many church leaders have worshipped money. Even insisting that the money should be given to them rather than the poor. As if they will really give use it for the poor. The irony is that the more wealth is pursued the emptier the person's life is. As a recent article in Vanity fair quoted: "If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to."
Grant - why do you think conservative Catholics are "frightened"? "Somewhat dismissive" seems more descriptive.
If the Acton Institute and its ilk are this upset by a tweet, imagine how they'd react to:
"All who believed were together and had all things in common;
they would sell their property and possessions
and divide them among all according to each one's need." I'd love to hear Fr.Sirico's homily on that...
I'm not challenging what the Holy Father tweeted but is there any possibility that he was also going beyond economic inequality? Unfortunately, life is fraught with comparisons and people are sometimes deeply wounded when they're reminded that they're not as beautiful or as bright or as socially nimble as someone else.
I am not of a good age to be taught by tweet or even haiku. My first reaction was: Is inequality the sin or the effect of sin? Fortunately, Grant, like you I remembered where I saw something like the tweet (it turned out to be the exact tweet) before, in context.
It was good to "roll the tape," and I commend you for it. Still, it might have been more fun to just let them go on until someone brightly suggested that, like capitalism, South American inequality is nothing like North American inequality. I mean, there are some analyses we preserve and treasure and look at for laughs when the gray winter days return.
Anyway, Francis' tweet was better than two recently sanctified tweets: "Ah, the mystery of evil" and "It's a long way to Tipperary,"
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If people are called to full participation in divine life as children of God, brothers and sisters in Christ, and temples of the Holy Spirit, this implies fundamental dignity and equality. The same principle applies to participation in social life. One can quibble until the cows come home about the "naturally" inequitable distribution of talents and resources among persons and societies, but it seems pretty clear to me that our faith calls us to address inequities that deny persons the beatitude which is their heritage "on earth as it is in heaven." Free-market capitalism isn't good news for the poor, captive or oppressed.
Free-market capitalism isn't good news for the poor, captive or oppressed.
As a path out of poverty, it is, short of banditry, the only option we have. Our public responsibility as followers of Christ in today's world is to determine how to make the material blessings that flow from the marketplace available to those who are excluded, while ameliorating its corrosive tendencies.
Maybe a Jesuit college like Seattle University can set an example by cheerfully allowing their adjunct faculty to unionize.
Good grief! Free-market capitalisim or banditry? Those are our only options? I miss Gene McCarraher.
the material blessings that flow from the marketplace
Dear Marketplace God, may your material blessings flow upon me. Amen.
Jim Pauwels: We have the option of highly regulated capitalism with a social safety net, which works better that either banditry or free market capitalism. When we had free market capitalism from the nineteenth century to the 1930s, the human cost was enormous.
I wish Francis would apply "Inequalty is the root of social evil" to the way the church treats women.
Claire - yes, our God is, indeed, the God of the marketplace. And the home, the church, the university and the rest of his creation.
Anne E: regulated capitalism with a social safety net is free market capitalism. It's the world we actually live in today.
@ Chris Loetscher (1:52 pm)
Well said.
As an aside, US conservatives aren't the only ones who get all kinds of baffled and frustrated by the pope, what he says, doesn't say, what he does or doesnt do.
Plenty of US "liberals" have gone ape and continue to do so whenver the pope fails to say or do things in the exact way they want.
Which I find equally amusing and eye roll worthy.
Re "The Tweet" and "The Joy of the Gospel:"
I take it that "The Joy of the Gospel" is a call to sustained critical reflection, as a clear statement that the capitalism we have known is woefully inadequate and has badly compromised the lives of numerous people and continues to do so. It is not, though, a statement that prescribes what an adequate economic order should look like nor does it lay out a specific economic road that would lead to such an adequate order. Instead, it calls for all of us, whatever our economic status, to take up the challenge, the arduous and necessarily protracted challenge, of working through the political, cultural, and moral issues that must be addressed if the present capitalist economic order is to undergo constructive reformation.
Furthermore, every economic order is necessarily constrained by the always limited resources available to it. Accordingly, there is no "definitive" economic order to be found or constructed. Melioration is always the order of the day. So is modesty.
None of this denies anything of the sharp critique Pope Francis has made of the preaviling capitalist order. But it does acknowledge the always present finitude of all human institutions, policies, etc. Just because many conservatives seem to claim to know that this capitalism is unavoidable or the best that we coupld possibly have at this juncture, it doesn't follow that those of us who disagree with them can claim that we have a ready set of reforms athat are sure to be more respectful of human dignity.
Claire - yes, our God is, indeed, the God of the marketplace. And the home, the church, the university and the rest of his creation.
This is trivial in one sense, untrue in another. Yes, God is present everywhere, the one creator of all that is. In this sense, our God is also the God of death row and skid row and the heroin den. But if we are talking about Who, or What, "the marketplace" worships, it isn't God; it's Mammon.
As a path out of poverty, [free-market capitalism] is, short of banditry, the only option we have.
This is neoliberal boilerplate—another version of Margaret Thatcher's "there is no alternative." Unless by "free-market capitlalism," Jim just means "legal commerce," we do have other alternatives to banditry. Lots of them, in fact. Some of those alternatives have been tried and found wanting; some have been found wanting and left untried; and some are working quite well today. Which brings me to Jim's next comment.
Anne E: regulated capitalism with a social safety net is free market capitalism. It's the world we actually live in today.
Not to quibble, but "regulated capitalism with a social safety" covers a lot of different ground. It covers Sweden and it covers the United States. Arguably, it also covers China. It covers what we have now and what social democrats like Thomas Piketty would like us to have. The more markets are regulated, the less they can be described as "free." The larger the role of "the safety net," the smaller the role of capitalism in determining who has what.
Chris -- Here I come to save the day. It's nice to know that someone misses me.
Jim P. -- Free-market capitalism or banditry? Come on, Jim -- you're smarter than that. There are alternatives, no matter what Margaret Thatcher thought; this isn't the "end of history," despite what Francis Fukuyama thought.
I've covered this ground before responding to previous posts, and many readers don't agree with me, but I'll tell my story, and I'm sticking to it. Even if one doesn't believe, as I do, that "free-market capitalism" is itself a form of thievery, one has to admit that it rests historically on massive and often bloody acts of banditry: the dispossession of peasants through enclosure; the dispossession and genocide of native Americans and other colonial peoples; the deskilling of artisans and craftsmen through mechanization and managerial control; and now, under monopoly-finance capitalism, the rampant and openly touted robberies of financiers. Anyone who reads Thomas Piketty's book knows that we are indeed well on our way back to a "patrimonial" society. (I'd even argue that we may be morphing into something like a kind of corporate feudalism.)
Do I wish Pope Francis had been clearer about what he meant in his tweet? Sure. Do I think Twitter is the best venue for making statements about social inequality. No. But as it stands, I don't see a real problem with his statement. I think some of the reaction to it is motivated by a misconception of what we on the left mean by equality. The right often believes that equality means homogeneity, sameness, a levelling or erasure of all individuality. We would argue that, if history is any guide, the theory and practice of individualism is the greatest enemy of individuality, and that capitalism has been one of history's most potent forces for homogenization -- what else is mass production but the voluminous production of sameness? What else is contemporary mass culture but the packaging and selling of "difference"? The abolition of social inequality -- which would entail no longer having to kowtow to the demands of the monied and propertied -- is the precondition for the flourishing of individuality, not for its demolition.
Mr. Boudway - appreciate your analysis and comment. You say a lot in a few sentences.
It is good to remember that "limited resources" are only limited by the policy of the ones in control. When we choose to spend trillions on wars of destruction and death and then say we can't afford a few millions to innoculate children against disease or rebuild a community devastated by tsunami, hurricane or earthquake, are we really being honest and Christ like? If we were all in the same lifeboat, the captain would command that existing rations of food and water be distributed equally among the survivors, not just those who have also a lifejacket.
Capitalists have forever sought the government's help to secure or preserve their interests. Why do they spend billions on lobbyists if not to augment their interests. The recent FCC decision to favor those with money to get faster speed on the internet is another example. New companies would be at a distinct disadvantage. The collusion by Google, Apple, Intel and others to not compete for recruits is definitely not true market. The reaction of the taxi industry and the real estate industry to startups is another example. The unlimited contribution allowed by this Supreme Court is another example of inequality. That money is paying for those who will grant favors. Period. So the regulation can be just as if not more unequal.
No question that a free market system is best when it is truly free. Certainly better than dictatorship. But it is not free because bullies will always pay to further inequities. This is how the Mafia started. They saw no equity in the courts. This is what the Rev. Louis Gigante, brother of the notoius "Chin", repeatedly claimed.
So it is a matter of taming the bullies. Trouble is the hierarchs have consistently catered to the bullies. As long as they got their share. And there are plenty of paid underlings who kill their own to keep others in power.
Francis has his hands full. Starting with the Vatican bank.
One thing that needs more emphasis, and Grant gets to it on the margins, is that Francis is being very traditional in what he's saying. All you need is a cursory look at over a 100 years of CST:
But if we are talking about Who, or What, "the marketplace" worships, it isn't God; it's Mammon.
"The marketplace" doesn't worship anyone or anything. If mammon is worshipped in the marketplace, it is people who are worshipping it. Dismembering the marketplace won't cure that ill. The fellow who spoke that line about God and mammon lived in an economic world that wouldn't be recognized as a free market economy, yet apparently mammon worship was a spiritual ill worth mentioning in that time and place.
Yes, some of the people who take part in the contemporary marketplace worship mammon. Too many. Perhaps the Holy Father's prophetic words will touch some of them. Yet there are also many people in our marketplaces who worship God - and order their market behavior accordingly. I don't know to what extent such folks are visible to a pope, but every American pastor and parish minister knows this to be the case. Some of those who do attempt to order their market behavior to Christian values are severely criticized on dotCom, cf. the Greens. And for some reason, God has seen fit to bless abundantly some people who participate in the marketplace, and they respond by giving generously to those not as abundantly blessed. I get solicitation mail and phone calls virtually every day from universities, charities, and even religious magazines who hope I may be one of those folks.
Not to quibble, but "regulated capitalism with a social safety" covers a lot of different ground. It covers Sweden and it covers the United States. Arguably, it also covers China. It covers what we have now and what social democrats like Thomas Piketty would like us to have. The more markets are regulated, the less they can be described as "free."
Yes, there are a lot of possibilities for regulated capitalism with a social safety net - many more possibilities than what we see implemented in the world today. And yes, economic freedom isn't a zero/one, off/on dichotomy. There are infinite degrees of freedom, and freedom must be balanced against other goods. But we can look about us and see that, for the American people, economic freedom is a core value, and one that they're not likely to sacrifice willingly. Perhaps Americans value economic freedom more than Swedes. That indicates that the range of policy options for the US may not be the same as the range for Sweden.
Hi - if anyone is interested: before I visited dotCom this morning and saw Grant's post, some conservative friends of mine had emailed me about the Pope's tweet and asked me what I thought the pope meant. FWIW, I'm pasting below my response to them. It is true that I pulled a different set of paragraphs than Grant did from the Holy Father's exhortation, but I think we're in sync regarding what the Pope meant.
My response to these friends:
I would say that it is for the Holy Father to explain what he means by that brief statement. And I'd suggest that this passage from his document "The joy of the Gospel" (cf paragraphs 52-67) probably is the right context for understanding what he meant.
A couple of other thoughts:
- I note that he didn't say "income inequality". He said "inequality". Undoubtedly, income inequality is a large part of what he has in mind (see the link I provided above for his thoughts on income inequality), but income inequality doesn't exhaust the possibilities of inequality leading to injustice. As someone who is pro-life, I have reflected on the political inequality of a baby in the womb who lacks all political rights and many protections, as compared with a mature adult with voting and other political rights. We could also think about the inequality of how we treat immigrants, racial minorities, the elderly – there are many forms of inequality, not all of which can be reduced to economic inequality.
- Any pope's "scope", when speaking about social, political and economic matters, typically is not the American economy and the American political system, but rather that of the entire world. That's not to say that it doesn't have any applicability to American conditions and events, as we are dominant economically, militarily and culturally. But he may have very different and non-American things in the back of his mind in writing some of the things he writes.
- It's probably important, too, that he's a Jesuit. The Society of Jesus focuses on the least of our brothers and sisters, those most in need, those who are most at the margins. This is a good thing, and it's a good challenge for those of us who are rather comfortably ensconced in the American middle class to try to see things from another point of view.
- I think it's also legitimate to note that he (and his predecessors) haven't had sustained exposure to all of the advantages and blessings that come from American economic, political and social life. It's not disrespectful to note that he may have gaps, limits and even blind spots. No one person can know and understand everything about everything.
- Popes don't speak ex cathedra on economic matters. Ultimately, his interest in this topic is religious and moral. I happen to think he's right to call attention to situations of inequality and injustice that prevail in our economic and social life. We Americans have a lot of good things going, but things are not perfect in our society and our culture. There is a lot of room for improvement. And the same can be said for other societies and cultures around the world.
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I think some of the reaction to it is motivated by a misconception of what we on the left mean by equality. The right often believes that equality means homogeneity, sameness, a levelling or erasure of all individuality.
I don't know how else to understand vast tax-and-redistribute schemes except as a means to the end of equality of outcomes.
JIm, what you call the safety net was invented right here in the United States, not in Sweden. Perhaps Americans value what you call economic freedom more than Swedes do, but you cannot infer that by examining economic policy in the United States, which is determined not by what most Americans want but by what industry lobbyists and the one percent demand. (Most Americans believe that wealth distribution in the United States is, and should be, what it actually is in Sweden.)
You're right that, strictly speaking, "the markeplace" doesn't worship anything, which is why I put the phrase in quotation marks. I was personfying the marketplace, just as we're personfying greed when we use the term Mammon. But the logic of capitalism does reward those who make profit and the perservation of wealth their chief purpose. Christian defenders of capitalism often say that wealth and profit are morally neutral, which is true as far as it goes. Desire, as such, is also a morally neutral category, but those who devote their lives to satisfying their desires—those who make that their goal—won't spend their lives doing the will of God. Likewise, those who make maximal profit their chief goal are fooling themselves if they believe they will thus end up doing the will of God as a kind of side effect to making themselves rich. When it comes to political economy, the will of God is justice, which is never just a side effect of prosperity. Just as the fulfillment of God's will sometimes require that we resist or deny our natural appetites, the pursuit of justice will require us to resist or deny our desire for peronal wealth. There will often be a choice between justice and profit, which is another way of saying man cannot serve both God and Mammon.
You write, "for some reason, God has seen fit to bless abundantly some people who participate in the marketplace, and they respond by giving generously to those not as abundantly blessed." The fact that someone has a lot of money doesn't mean that God has seen fit to bless him with it. Al Capone had a lot of money; so does Hugh Hefner. And I have no reason to doubt either man's personal generosity. But their wealth is not evidence of God's blessing, any more than victory in war is a reliable indicator of God's favor. What would you say if someone suggested that God saw fit, "for some reason," to bless the American settlers as they moved West but not the American Indians—because, well, because the settlers won and the Indians lost. History may be written by the winners, but God's judgment is no respecter of persons.
Comments here make excellent arguments against moving away from a hunter-gatherer society. In this view we never should have invented writing. Think how much power that innovation gave to the literate and how much more the masses could be controlled compared to an earlier more egalitarian society. Ditto for thousands of other inventions - unless you can guarantee a prosperous economy without unequal incentives.
At the risk of being tedious, let me say that the exchanges between Jim Pauwels and Matthew Boudway strike me as being doomed to irrelevancy. Yes, Jim, popes are not infallible about economic matters, etc. Yes, Matthew, sometimes we cannot serve both God and mammon.
Let's also agree that the present way in which capitalism appears to be practiced in the U. S. is badly in need of modification. So what?
Until we agree boththat something meliorative CAN BE DONE about present c apitalist practice, then it is unlikely that anyting will be done. And until we agree that the problem of finding alternatie to prevailing capitalist practices rrequires experimentation, a willingness to be self-critical, and some recognition that others may have betterideas than we do, then prospects for any humane melioration look dim.
I donot have the expertise to recommend specific polikcies. I have no hesitancy, though, in saying that everyone is entitled to basic shelter, food, medical care, and political respect. Any policy or proposal ought to be assessed in terms of whether it holds out the reasonable prospect that the suggested policies will indeed be meliorative in these respects, not only domestically but also globally. That's no trivial test. And anyone who makes any significant proposal ought to recognize how hard it is to pass this test.
Nonetheless, the manifest injustices of the prevailing capitalist model are so severe that the search for effective alternatives, arduous as it is, is a practical imperative for anyone who wants to heed the Gospel call to care for the poor.
Thanks, Bernard....thought that JP, you, and Mr. Boudway would enjoy this TED talk:
Would suggest that the monkey on the left is fed up with folks who say - but, you have *opportunity* so that makes everything *just* and *equal*
" I get solicitation mail and phone calls virtually every day from universities, charities, and even religious magazines who hope I may be one of those folks.
One of the worst errors in is in allowing so many well to do people to go non-profit. One way to aid the problem of inequity is to eliminate non-profit altogether. If you make money pay taxes. And you will not be allowed to establish a base in London the way Pfizer plans to do. There would then be a lot more money to help the poor.
The other prodigious mistake is when Augustine and Jerome persuaded Christians to give them the money to give to the poor. Not the poor directly. Despite the fact that Jesus said give it to the poor. Not the church.
Just look at all the money that would be available to the poor. There might even be enough to created decent pay for the Middle Class.
"Free market" doesn't mean simply freedom from government intervention. It means freedom from economic rigging of various sorts including internal rigging such as price fixing and monopolies. Without some government regulation the market loses competitiveness to the unscrupulous. Marx was right about that much.
The problem is that "totally free market capitalism" is a self-defeating concep because when business people are totally free some of them will cheat and ultimately destroy the freedom of others. So freedom must be restricted to some extent for capitalism to work. A totally free market would work only if all business people were saints. The problem is how much policing is necessary, when, and how.
As to participation by all in the system, it can be a good thing for an economy when some people -- some -- lose jobs. There's the old saying "If nobody ever lost a job we'd all still be digging potatoes". In other words, temporary loss of jobs for the sake of efficiency benefits all in the long run, so long as there is help for those who have to lose their jobs until new jobs become available. We have a safety net, but it has enormous holes in it. Many millions still go hungry here, and many are children, especially in the summer when they don't get free meals at school.
As to "fair wages" nobody has figured out a formula for figuring them yet. Even Keynes, who did try to find a definition/formulation, gave up. Let's hope the newly discovered theorist Piketty will give the problem a shot. (Has anyone actually read his book yet?)
As to luxuries, if everyone bought only the necessities -- that is, if they never bought sports tickets, artworks, extra clothes, books, etc. -- then a large proportion of the populace would lose their jobs permanently. As always, what is wrong is when many earn much but some earn not much or none. It's in such cases that "inequality" is wrong.
We haven't talked about equality of opportunity yet. That would also be a basic characteristic of a fair system, and it seems that one of Piketty's main contentions is that opportunities have gotten more and more restrictive in the current Western systems, thereby vastly stifling competition.
I think we need to do a lot of wondering about *why* some people pursue mountains of money as if it would make them happy. Sure, money can contribute to happiness insofar as it makes good things affordable But why this scramble for fat bank accounts? Of itself, money is only a tool.
Bernard - I appreciate your interventions. I may try to respond to others later today if I can find the time.
I guess my basic point of view is that, even though capitalism has warts, that is not sufficient reason to give up on it. That it has more warts now than it did a few generations ago (which is debatable, but let's suppose it's true for the sake of conversation) implies that essentially the same system was capable of having fewer warts, and this after, in a still earlier time in history, it had more warts. It seems that capitalism can be realized in ways that are more just and less just, and because it may (or may not!) be trending in a less just direction right now, doesn't mean that the trend is inevitable or irreversible. I also think that, if the 20th century taught us anything, it is that the evils that come from massive rip-and-replace of economic systems far outweigh whatever benefits are supposed to flow from the new system. Let's be realistic and work within the framework of where we are now, acknowledging not only the problems, but also the virtues and blessings. Capitalism still works for a majority of Americans, and for a quickly increasing number of people worldwide. Let's figure out how to extend those blessings to those who are still excluded and exploited.
I see Peter Nixon gave us the Latin original of the Holy Father's tweet in a separate post, "Iniquitas radix malorum". Google Translate's English translation is, "The violence is the root of evil". This is something that conservative Catholics can rally around!
Jim P. and others: A quibble, but I think an important one:
It's probably important, too, that he's a Jesuit. The Society of Jesus focuses on the least of our brothers and sisters, those most in need, those who are most at the margins. This is a good thing, and it's a good challenge for those of us who are rather comfortably ensconced in the American middle class to try to see things from another point of view.
Focus on the least of the brethren is not a specifically Jesuit charism, and they came to it, in fact, comparatively late. The Franciscans started out that way. But, as the souce of the phase Jim picked -- "the least of our brothers and sisters" -- suggests (Matt 25:40), that focus is demanded of all of the disciples of Jesus. It is, Jesus said, the standard by which one's application for admission to heaven will be judged.
The Jesuits do it better than anyone else,of course, but all of the rest of us are required to do it. It is not just something to think about in our comfortable middle-class existence.
As Micah told us (6:8) we must (no argument) do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. The Catholic who think it's enough to fulfill the third requrement by showing up on Sunday and some other times when he "doesn't have to" and to think Hallmark thoughts misses two-thirds of the obligation. He or she might qualify as a neophyte but not as a Christian.
The Latin is not the original of the Holy Father's tweet. He has a Latinist whose job it is to translate the tweets into Latin. The original is probably the Italian or the Spanish, which is very close to the English.
Jim P,
First you play down Mammom. Then inequity. I guess next is that a camel can really fit into the eye of the needle. But I am shallow as I forget how grateful we should be to all those millionaires who have their names on all kinds of hospitals and other babels. Suppose you object to the statement of Jesus that "they have had their reward." Of cours not, they deserve the money they made.
Let's face it, U.S religous conservatives are "frightened and confused" by any exposure to reality. They like the handful of favourite scriptural texts that have been fashionable among them lately, and find anything else to be disturbing and disorienting. They have got used, nevertheless--at least outwardly--to not being contemptuous of Jews and blacks and women, and so are at least capable of putting on a show of understanding equality and fairness. They will adapt, eventually to equality for homsexuals, especially since some of them will be their own children (who, fortuntely for them and the rest of us, do not listen to them) and may learn that it is unwise to spend their whole lives trying to beggar their neighbour.
Tom - thanks for that comment re: the Jesuits, Matthew 25 and our Christian responsibilities.
It relates somewhat to Ann's most recent comment, and to the conversation I've been having with Matthew (the editor, not the evangelist, although the editor does a pretty fair job of evangelizing in his most recent comment to me, too). All of us who participate in a free market are free to be Christians. Not that the marketplace gives us perfect and complete freedom. None of us, even owners, are perfectly autonomous masters of our economic life in the marketplace. Ethical conflicts arise in all our work lives, and there can be personal and professional costs to our Christian choices. And freedom, in and of itself, does not ensure that we will act as Christians: not everyone in the marketplace is a Christian, not every nominal Christian actually holds to Christian values and ideals, and not every serious Christian tailors his words, actions and choices to Christian ideals in every instance.
Even so: the workplace and the marketplace are where we live our lives and where we are called to realize our fully human potential. It is even a place, pace Matthew the editor, where the Good News can be given witness. But all of these require freedom and autonomy. Not every iteration of capitalism, and not every alternative to capitalism, places a premium on freedom and autonomy. Coercion can extend far beyond tax rates and anti-pollution regulations. That's not just a theory; it's history.
Tom Blackburn --
The Jesuits historically have not focused on *all* the least of our brethren -- they have focused on the male half of humanity. It is only in the last 50 years or so that the Jesuits have allowed women in their colleges, and their high schools are still male-only.
As for the Franciscans, here's a weird bit of history about how money can affect the Church's teachings.
Relatively early in their history some of the Franciscans became very worldly. In the 14th century some of them we living so high on the hog that William of Ockham,, the philosopher-theologian, blasted the Pope himself for permitting Franciscans to own things,. He claimed it was against the spirit of St. Francis, and ultimately he called the Pope himself a heretic because the Pope wouldn't side with him. Apparently, this really struck a nerve, and the Pope excommunicated him as a heretic! Be careful who you call greedy!
No, Ockham was not excommunicated for his so-called "nominalism", as is often claimed by Catholic theologians, who now typically dismiss his thinking as from the devil himself, and even to this day Ockham's philosophy is the bete noir of Catholic theiologians -- they still contend that Ockham's philosophical positions grounded (gasp!) the Enlightenment with all its terrible ramifications, including the so-called "relativism" that Benedict in particular deplores. (Not that the theologians actually understand Ockham, mind you.) Sad, sad, even tragic.
On the other side, the secular philosophers of science generally had and still have only scorn for the thinking of the theologians. Tragic really, because Ockham's original complaint had nothing to do with the philosophical underpinnings of science..
Ockham wasn't the only Franciscan who argued the point about poverty. There was a war within the order about the place of poverty in the order's life. I wonder whether St. Ignatius founded a new order, one explicitly dedicated to poverty, in order to avoid the inter-necine Franciscan war about Lady Poverty.
It's a tweet for heaven's sake, not an encyclical! He was apparently referring to the Pauline text in which the love of money or greed is described as the root of all evil. Should there be something controversial about that? Even intelligent people are capable of blowing things out or proportion.
JP and others - here is another interesting way of framing this issue:
- from John Carr: "We've got people who sort of measure the teaching by how it measures up with their own ideological preferences instead of the other way around," he said. "There's a bit of a battle over what the teaching is, who owns it and what it calls for. Some people are turning themselves into pretzels saying, 'I'm fully consonant with Catholic teaching, but unions are outmoded, the living wage is counterproductive and the market is the moral way to go for society.' That's a great way to be a subscriber to Forbes magazine, but it isn't an expression of Catholic faith." (perfect example of the Acton Institute approach - start with ideology and then try to cram everything into a square hole)
"Currently a full-time, full-year worker making the minimum wage cannot raise one child out of poverty," he said. "So if you're looking at the federal minimum wage through the lens of Catholic social teaching and the imperative to nurture families as the fundamental cell of society, it's not meeting that standard."
Thanks, Bill deHaas for citing John Carr's remarks. What Carr says is hard to deny. How to change these circumstances is no easy matter, but that is no excuse for not both (a) calling the prrevailiing an institutionalized evil of the first water, and (b) exerting what political and economic pressure we can muster to promote the kinds of discussions and experimentations that start from the premise that the prevailing situation is both unnecesary and immoral. Some experiments may well go awry and turn out to produce harms of their own, but not to attempt refprms is a form of intolerable fatalism.
Ann Oliver, Thanks. But haven't more people used Ockham's razor than have used King Gillette's?
Tom B. --
No doubt they have. So?
Bill de Haas, Bernard and others: do you really think, though, that a living wage as a minimum wage should be legislated/mandated? (Or perhaps that is not where Carr is going with his remarks? I took them as being along those lines). Even the President, who I expect "gets" the notion of a living wage, isn't proposing legislation to mandate it.
On May Day (and St. Joseph the Worker Day, too), maybe we can all express our support for worker solidarity, organization and collective bargaining to bring about better wages and working conditions.
Jim Pauwels,
I support a basic income. The easiest way to eliminate poverty is just to give people enough money to ensure that they are not poor. Each person would receive the same amount of money from the government without any restrictions on its use. I'd pair it with elimination of most other anti-poverty programs, the minimum wage, Social Security, and many educational and artistic stipends because they would be redundant, but I would keep a universal single-payer health insurance system.


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