Our Financial Dilemma

Loved Kevin O'Brien's editorial in the Cleveland PD, Hot recovery tip: Buy Morality.

Highlights:

• Nobody with a lick of sense believes in unfettered capitalism.
• Letting government attach the fetters makes capitalism a slave to politics.
• What's really needed is something the government cannot compel: morality in the marketplace.
• John Adams nailed it: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
• The regulations we need aren't governmental. They're internal.

To paraphrase O'Brien - The solution to our financial dilemma is not more government, but a return to the moral standards our culture has been working so hard to eliminate over the past 50 years.

Lenten reading -

• Render Unto Caesar; Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life
• Living the Gospel of Life

Also looking forward to reading Pope Benedict's soon to be published encyclical on the errors that have lead to our current global economic problems.