A left-wing acquaintance emailed me the following comment: "The fact that the rich are drinking champagne while the poor struggle to feed their children strikes me as simply wrong.  This is presumably the position of the Church as well.  Society has to allocate its assets somehow, and this extreme division seems immoral to me.  A rich society like ours should at a minimum feed its people, provide them basic health care, etc.  The extreme concentration of wealth happening now makes this impossible.  This is a moral argument."  He fancies himself a champion of the poor, of the underdog, of the lumpen-proletariat.  To him, Christians and anyone who is on the right or even centrist have betrayed any and all ideals of benevolence and equal treatment of one's fellow men. He is blissfully unaware that the U.S. from its founding has had mechanisms (poor houses and other welfare programs) for the...(Read Full Article)