Richest woman to save economy, end poverty with plan

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
9/6/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Rienhart says there's no monopoly on being a millionaire.

The world's richest woman wants to pay you $2 a day, so you too can be a millionaire, just like her. Speaking at the Australian Mining Club, Gina Rinehart said that Australia's mining industry can't compete with nations that pay less than $2 a day for work.

Gina Rinehart, Defender of Opportunity.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (Catholic Online) - Times are tough for job creators, all over the world, and that includes Australian mining baroness Gina Rinehart who struggled to earn her $18 billion fortune by inheritance.

Referring to conditions in Africa, Rinehart suggested that wages in Australia were much too high and that eliminating minimum wage restrictions could help make the mining industry more competitive. "Africans want to work," she told members. "And it's workers are willing to work for less than two dollars per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future."

Rinehart has previously suggested that the poor should "spend less time drinking, smoking, and socializing and more time working."

Naturally, the communist sympathizing Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, turned her nose up at this sound fiscal advice, selflessly offered by a courageous capitalist. "It's not the Australian way to toss people $2, to toss them a gold coin, and then ask them to work for a day. We support proper Australian wages and decent working conditions."

Of course, Rinehart has only the poor on her mind in her vision of a capitalist utopia that would make Ayn Rand blush. ""There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money don't just sit there and complain, do something to make more money yourself."

Rinehart has a point. If a poor person is truly dedicated and works hard for $2 per day, and they manage to diligently save that income without squandering it on booze or cigarettes, they too could become a millionaire in only 1,369 year's time!

Get to work, you lazy bums.

Not yet ready to get back to work? Read more: See what the Church says about work.

� 2012, Distributed by NEWS CONSORTIUM.

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Keywords: Gina Rinehart, Australia, mining, minimum wage, pay

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1 - 6 of 6 Comments

William
8 months ago
One cannot serve two masters. Serving your life for wealth is serving the prince of the World. Serving Jesus means giving every thing you have and living a simple, poor life. Jesus wasn't a billionaire. He was poor. I guess Jesus should have turned less water into wine.
Cathy S
8 months ago
And now for the other side of the story, from The Australian:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/the-truth-hurts-especially-when-so-unfashionable/story-fnc2jivw-1226466803996
robert amann
8 months ago
50 years of vatican II has been a disaster. polls shows less catholics in pews, more catholic using birth control, and abortaphasia. we were a great nation in the U.S. sending holt missionaries throughout the world. now we write bishops of uganda, and the philippines for priests to say Mass in our parishes. Blessed John Paul II said all baptised are missionaries. i see people ashamed or their faith. i see bishops save a couple silient while the U.S. catholics come under LITERALLY Daily attacks...WHY silient? where are the sherpherds, why don't they lead. we are all missionaries? judge the tree by its fruit. cut down the tree of vatican II and feed it to the flame of lukewarm Catholism which it has produced.
Saddest of all, the unbelief in the true presense of Our Lord in body,blood,soul and divinity, which most consume at the Holy Mass. pray harder
stefanie
8 months ago
LOL
Loved this article.
I wouldn't mind working for 2 dollars a day in a country where that covers taxes, living expenses, food, medical care and clothes.
I think we should bring back family wages: any job should be enough to support the minimal requirements of one family.
TRAD DAD
8 months ago
Work for $2 a day is a great statement from someone whose wealth was made by an ancestor stumbling over an ore body . Perhaps she could go out & get her own hands dirty working in her own mines & then appreciate what others have done to create the wealth she enjoys . Even better perhaps she could emigrate to a low wage country & then have the cost structure & the infrastructure she seems to so ardently desire . Maybe doing this would raise living standards both there & in Australia .
Pax et bonum .
From Our Lady`s Land of the Southern Cross .
Mick
8 months ago
Rinehart makes some good points and the author is disingenuous in suggesting that she thinks Australian workers should only receive $2 a day. While always well intentioned, the law that most harms the poor is a minimum wage, which effectively prices low-skilled and especially young people out of the labour market. That the left and the above quoted communist continue to promote such laws speaks waves of their economic illiteracy and / or their complete disregard for the plight of the poor. I am dismayed that this Catholic publication would take a similar tone.

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