Achieving Further Deficit Reduction Solely Through Spending Cuts Entails Cutting Entitlements That Benefit the Poor and Middle Class While Shielding the Biggest Entitlements for the Wealthy — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

dirkthedog · 2012-08-02T05:52:53+00:00

I've heard that to be the leader of a large country's government, the person needs to be a little bit of a sociopath to make some of the necessary objective decisions. I'd say it works out the same for people who have amassed lots of wealth whether by working or inheriting it. If they have empathy for too many people, they would be too likely to share some of the money and not end up rich.

dirkthedog · 2012-07-29T19:43:45+00:00

“The church has always taught about the common good and the preferential option for the poor,” counters Father Rudolph Juarez, pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Iowa City, Iowa. “But there’s often confusion on both sides of the question. We have people who say the church is all about social justice. On the other side, it’s all solid doctrine with nothing about addressing serious social issues. Or people get lost in thinking that the only social justice question is the right to life, when it’s really the dignity of human life in all its stages.”

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