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What really caused the economic meltdown

Friday, November 21, 2008

Was it deregulation? Was it risky loans to po' folks? Was it a fundamentalist version of capitalism?

The Wall Street Journal's editorial page has the answer: the War on Christmas!

What really went missing through the subprime mortgage years were the three Rs: responsibility, restraint and remorse. They are the ballast that stabilizes two better-known Rs from the world of free markets: risk and reward.

Responsibility and restraint are moral sentiments. Remorse is a product of conscience. None of these grow on trees. Each must be learned, taught, passed down. And so we come back to the disappearance of "Merry Christmas."

It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous. That danger flashed red in the fall into subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers, who after all are just people. Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue with the bathwater of obnoxious political opinions.

The point for a healthy society of commerce and politics is not that religion saves, but that it keeps most of the players inside the chalk lines. We are erasing the chalk lines.


Because greed never entered into it back when we had good Christianists on Wall Street (before those northern atheists threw them out).

/facepalm

Posted by matt at 9:13 AM

 

What really caused the economic meltdown
2008-11-21T09:13:00-08:00
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