tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post5472417057646301977..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Will the Church have to give up hospitals for Lent?Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-22302890450073494472012-02-28T10:26:59.321-06:002012-02-28T10:26:59.321-06:00Whether or not the powers that be intend to elimin...Whether or not the powers that be intend to eliminate competition in the realm of care and compassion, that is exactly what this appears to be in this whole situation...<br /><br />Yes, I hear the quacking too...Fr. Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07720680914830205561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-71060379558561997852012-02-27T15:35:54.655-06:002012-02-27T15:35:54.655-06:00I know that the reductio ad Hitlerum is a bad idea...I know that the reductio ad Hitlerum is a bad idea, but in watching a recent program on the Socialist part of National Socialism, emphasizing the leftist anti-capitalist drive deep in the Nazi political platform, the author pointed out that while the Nazis did not actually nationalize German industry, did not take direct ownership of the means of production as the Marxists did and do, they achieved nationalization by regulation: laying so many laws on the industries, etc. that while private ownership was retained on paper, so to speak, the Nazi government actually controlled how this "private" property could be used. <br /><br />Socialism by regulation. <br /><br />If it quacks like a duck...OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.com