Hillary Clinton has made pay equity a talking point in her run for president. In the video below, Hillary supporters are informed that she paid her female senate staff 72 cents for every dollar she paid the men.
The Hillary Clinton Supporter Beauty Pageant [3:10]
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Please note that the “gender wage disparity” issue is a myth that has been debunked many times. Hillary’s female staff undoubtedly earned less for the same reason American women (in the aggregate) earn less. I.e., because of the career choices we make. The fact is that female to male pay scales are the same when you look at specific JOBS.
The disparity occurs only when average the pay for all the women and compare it to the average for all the men, which is a false statistic that Democrats use to get women to blindly vote Democrat.
If Republicans made this an issue instead, the MSM would very carefully explain to us how very stoooooooooooopid these Republicans were for pushing a debunked myth as a political talking point.
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Chrissy, off-topic but did you see today’s quote from the Pope’s top adviser excoriating climate change deniers? “The ideology surrounding environmental issues is too tied to a capitalism that doesn’t want to stop ruining the environment because they don’t want to give up their profits,” Rodríguez said, according to the Boston Globe’s Crux blog. http://goo.gl/dzZWBU
I don’t believe this Vatican could be more Marxist if they all translated “Das Kapital” into Latin and read excerpts in Mass.
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One of the great challenges for each devout Catholic is to discern authentic teaching and apply it in a specific time, place and culture. One of the great challenges for each pope is to help Catholics AROUND THE WORLD do this important task.
Pope Francis is definitely NOT a Marxist, but he did spend his whole life in a country where capitalism stomps on the very numerous ultra poor, so he’s no fan of unregulated capitalism. But we hardly have unregulated capitalism in the U.S. nor are we the nations raping the environment. So he isn’t talking to us when he refers to these things.
There is a lot of tension in every Catholic Christian doctrine that I have ever explored deeply. I recently heard a Catholic say it well. “It’s not either-or in the Catholic Church. It’s both-and.” Take one tiny example: Jesus told us to turn the other cheek, yet he overturned the tables and drove the money changers out of the temple with a whip! Both-and.
The challenge is to do God’s will in each circumstance and for this we need the Holy Spirit.
I encourage you to read the article linked below prayerfully. It’s well researched and, I believe, captures the real nature of Francis’ papacy.
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EXCERPT: For some, this vision of the Church is confusing, and symbolic of a papacy that is “all over the place.” But if Francis is all over the place, so too is Catholicism, which is a faith of many dimensions, as anyone who reads the Bible and Catechism can see.
Beneath the complexities of the Church, however, is one unifying truth, which Francis repeats often, and from which all its teachings flow: “The principal mission of the Church,” he has declared, “is evangelization, bringing the Good News to everyone.”
This is the only agenda of Pope Francis: to lead people to Jesus Christ, so that their lives and joy may be full.
Read the rest @ http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/12/the-popes-true-agenda
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Great response, Chrissy. The Pope’s job is exhort all of us – Marxists and capitalists alike – to be Christians instead, and so everyone hates it when the criticism seems to fall on the ones who don’t deserve it. Obviously, he can’t be a Marxist because he lacks the power or will to force anyone to do anything – only to chide them for what they ‘should’ do. All Christian clergy sound a little like Marxists from the pulpit.
Still, it bugs me, too, that he’s been harping on the environmental crap lately. It’s true that the 3rd world, and ESPECIALLY communist China, are still environmental disasters. So why not direct some ire that way and not ours? And his advisors are truly clueless if they think there’s anything at all to the climate change bull. That is a scam that will steal trillions of bucks that could benefit the poor and only benefit academics and politicians. He should be getting that, and I have enough faith in him to think that he will, eventually, but we’ll see.
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“But we hardly have unregulated capitalism in the U.S. nor are we the nations raping the environment. So he isn’t talking to us when he refers to these things.” Chrissy, that makes me think you didn’t click on the link to the headline “Pope’s top adviser blasts US climate skeptics.”
I appreciate your willingness to give Pope Francis the benefit of every doubt, but at some point you may realize this Pope is much closer to Obama than Thomas Aquinas in his ideology.
She can get crazy, we may all agree, but tediously didactic Catholic Ann Barnhardt is beyond livid at Francis’ fall from grace, as she reminds us long and loud on a weekly basis. Similarly Limbaugh and countless others.
Anyway, to each his own. If you think he’s doing a good job, fare thee well, mi amiga. History has shown us that popes can go off the rails, and I personally think Francis is another harbinger of the coming end times, but I may be a tad too apocalyptic.
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Sorry to chime in again, but I would encourage you to not be encouraged too much in your skepticism of Franko by Ann’s tirades. Her apocalyptic rants may seem attractive, but I have spent many hours disputing them over on iOTWR and other places. It’s true that popes go off the rails sometimes, but I hardly think he has, and even though Ann and I used to be friends, I consider her quite “off the rails” on the subject of Francis. Virtually everything she has to say about him is tainted by her exposure (and devotion) to a nasty group of traditionalists. That’s my opinion, anyway.
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She lost me on the subject of Pope Francis when she reamed him out for not genuflecting at the Consecration. I watched the tape. It was clear to me that all those at the altar who were capable of doing so SAFELY had done so. The Pope is an older gentleman who was wearing a dress and standing on 12″ of step while on live television. She gave NO quarter to this simple explanation. No, it HAD to be that he’s a heretic! :0P“““““
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Replying to Grunt and Kelli here because the columns are getting too skinny …
Not many are more apocalyptic than I am, Kelly LOL. I wake up every morning asking God to Rapture us today!
I dunno what to think about Francis being a harbinger. I know of two prophecies that suggest he is our last pope. I also have heard him speak and believe him to be a devout and holy man.
But I’m seriously bothered by the leaks about him being about to publish an encyclical supporting what I consider to be the anti-human, anti-God agenda behind the Left’s climate change baloney. I’ve been praying for him daily that he not allow himself and our beautiful church to be used to promote this evil that specifically demands Third World countries NOT develop economically.
You’re right that I didn’t click on your link. I don’t trust what the Boston Globe has to say. I’m wondering if you clicked on mine.
I have been busy all morning researching a mythbuster about the alleged hypocrisy of the allegedly “filthy rich” Catholic Church. Interestingly, one of the sources I’m using addresses our discussion here.
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Popes John Paul II and Benedict both said that without God, capitalism and socialism are equally evil and that the Marxist form of socialism, being Godless, is evil.
Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical, Centesimus Annus, “Catholic social doctrine is not a surrogate for capitalism. In fact, although decisively condemning ‘socialism’ the Church, since Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, has always distanced itself from capitalistic ideology, holding it responsible for grave social injustices. In Quadragesimo Anno Pius XI, for his part, used clear and strong words to stigmatize the international imperialism of money. This line is also confirmed in the more recent magisterium, and I myself, after the historical failure of communism, did not hesitate to raise serious doubts on the validity of capitalism, if by this expression one means not simply the ‘market economy’ but ‘a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of human freedom in its totality.'”
“The free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs,” John Paul II said. “But there are many human needs which find no place on the market,” he immediately added, and many people without the purchasing power to meet their needs through the market.
http://www.spiritdaily.net/Vaticancash.htm
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I don’t know how to bold, so repeating this line here to emphasize that “capitalism” as used in Catholic teaching means “a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of human freedom in its totality.”
In other words, it’s not what politically conservative Americans mean when we say “capitalism.” Most of us, particularly those who identify with the Tea Party, are SPECIFICALLY CHRISTIAN about our political beliefs.
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