Yesterday the founder of the Davos Forum, Klaus Schwab, informed us that:
He states that capitalism must be reformed.
Across the world, President Barak Obama in a statement released by the White House on the 30th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision on abortion rights stated:
“we must also continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”
In an article in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal entitled “The New American Divide” Charles Murray argues that there is a cultural divide that has never occurred in this country that threatens to rip the nation apart as its leaders and upper class become ever more insulated from the rest of the country. Single parenthood, long-term joblessness, and the loss of religion have all jumped to historic levels in the majority of the country while the Upper Class has become ever more isolated.
Rather than the American Way of the 1960′s we now have deeply divergent class differences that do not bode well for the democratic experiment.
I picked the references from Hr. Schwab and the president for a reason. It goes to the heart of the matter. The crisis we are facing was identified by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in its earliest form and by the social welfare driven policies of government over the past 50 years. It is the disintegration of both faith and family that is at the heart of the issue.
One can not have laws without morality. There has to be an underlying philosophical code to the social compact. As the Left and its institutions have sought to extirpate the Judeo-Christian basis for our Constitution and laws, the moral and ethical limits to wrong conduct have been severely weakened. The Jon Corzines and Angelo Mozillos and Newt Gingrichs and Nancy Pelosis begin to feel invincible. On a corporate level Apple and Nike disassociate themselves from the sweatshops in Asia producing their products, while General Electric and Goldman Sachs game to government and the system to the tune of billions. In a financial crisis based upon bad decision after bad decision after bad decision there were no consequences for those decisions. Any fines or settlements were paid out of other people’s money.
And this evening, we are to be lectured by the president on “fairness”. Every time I hear that term I know the system is once again being gamed. Fairness is equal treatment under the law. Fairness is equal opportunity. But the president has a very different idea of fairness.
How fair is it to take the life of a 7 month old fetus? According to the president’s own words, it is simply equal opportunity.There is something deeply disturbing about such a worldview.
Hr. Schwab considers the capitalist model to be outdated when in fact it is capitalism run wild, or rather cronyism, that is the issue.
The cultural divide outlined by Mr. Murray began when the social norms began to crumble in the 1960′s. In 1965 Moynihan identified the destruction of the African-American family as a national crisis. Trillions of dollars in social programs later, it would seem that society as a whole is unraveling.
For without core values, the center cannot hold. We don’t need more rules and regulations. The Federal Code is 80,000+ pages already. We do need common sense and a recognition of the common ethical standards, the Tao as C.S. Lewis put it, that underlies all else that we do.
Perhaps if our president did not engage in purposely misstating reality we could begin to recover our national soul. Perhaps if the bankers looked within, we could begin to recapture that which has made this country great.
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