"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton

This same quote could be applied to money. Indeed how many times is it that powerful interests (such as the Jєωιѕн lobbies or Corporate Street)  put their own interests over the national good by giving politicians billions of dollars to "convince" them to "vote the right way." Of course politicians, being a Parliament of Whores, only approve to take the money so gladly.

This same rule could be applied to Corporations and Big Business who refuse to support the national good of a living wage or keeping jobs here because it "costs too much money." The same could also be applied to unions who support the power of the strike or allowing immigrants into the union (this used to be a 'scalawag' move amongst labor) or forcing a worker to join it because of its concern over money, putting that above even workers' rights.

But even in our own society do we not obsess with keeping up with the Jones' next door and obsess with work over family to keep our own Mammon, money, into our pockets? Do not the women of our modern society obsess with outdressing eachother? Does not the spoiled trust-fund baby whine and moan when his money is cut off? Do not we Americans have an obsession with consumerism as a part of our society?

Money has a corrupting influence on the family as well. It has been well-established that those higher up in society have fewer children and less religious faith than those who live in dire poverty (a great irony when one would think that it would be easier to have children or believe in God living comfortably with money in your pocket).

So yes it would seem that our Lord was right to bless the poor in society and to lambast the rich of whom "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven."

You know I had an argument with my grandparents this morning where I rightly pointed out that they are cut from the same liberal cloth as Obama, since in history it was Liberalism which put business interests and money over the common good since man would be an economic animal.

This is what Pope Francis has to say about money;

In relation to the challenges of the contemporary world, the Pope denounces the current economic system as “unjust at its root”. “Such an economy kills” because the law of “the survival of the fittest” prevails. The current culture of the “disposable” has created “something new”: “the excluded are not the ‘exploited’ but the outcast, the ‘leftovers’”. “A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual”, of an “autonomy of the market” in which “financial speculation” and “widespread corruption” and “self-serving tax-evasion reign”. He also denounces “attacks on religious freedom” and the “new persecutions directed against Christians. … In many places the problem is more that of widespread indifference and relativism”. The family, the Pope continues, “is experiencing a profound cultural crisis”. Reiterating the indispensable contribution of marriage to society”, he underlines that “the individualism of our postmodern and globalized era favours a lifestyle which … distorts family bonds”.

http://www.news.va/en/news/synthesis-of-the-apostolic-exhortation-the-joy-of