National Catholic Register’s Trent Beattie: “Romania was a very harsh place to live while the communists were in power. They portray it as equality for all, but the equality you get is everyone being equally miserable. Government control of everything results in less prosperity for everyone. . . .
“Those kinds of things happen frequently when the government steps in and tries to do things that people should be allowed to do for themselves. When the principle of subsidiarity is rejected, society is unbalanced and unproductive. As Pope Pius XI wrote in Quadragesimo Anno (In the 40th Year), it is an unchangeable aspect of social philosophy that government should not usurp the rights of individuals to do what they are capable of doing through their own actions.”
Full interview here.
