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The pope has the answer to our global recession.   Taking heed the overwhelming historical evidence that shows the failure of central planning in every nation it has been tried, the pope has solved the economic problem. No, it isn’t to reduce taxes and trade barriers, or otherwise remove government burdens on economic production. What we really need is a globally planned economy!

Pope Benedict called on Tuesday for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.

…The pope said every economic decision had a moral consequence and called for “forms of redistribution” of wealth overseen by governments to help those most affected by crises.

Benedict said “there is an urgent need of a true world political authority” whose task would be “to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result.”

We can now count the pope among freedom’s many enemies.  He should stick to religion.

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