Maureen Fiedler: "Then he tried to make a moral case for his budget, saying the
government is not responsible for lifting its citizens out of poverty --
rather, that it's the obligation of the citizens themselves.
But who or what is the government, if not the collective action of
citizens? When it comes to economic policy, governments are often
indispensible vehicles of social justice because they can touch everyone
in society. They are one way -- an important way -- that citizens can
act to lift people out of poverty."
MSW: "First of all, subsidiarity is not “really federalism.” Federalism is
about establishing diverse loci of power, so as to check any one of
those loci from being able to perpetrate tyranny. Subsidiarity is rooted
in Catholic personalism, the idea that solutions to human problems are
best crafted closest to the human person. But, as I have noted before,
subsidiarity is a two-way street. While it insists that solutions be
crafted at the lowest level of social organization possible, first the
family, then the community, then the State, it also insists that when
the lower levels of social organization manifestly fail to achieve the
basic necessities of human life, such as health care, the higher levels
of social organization must step in to guarantee them."
Steve Thorngate: "In what universe does cutting Pell Grants constitute replacing a
culture of dependency with an effort to lift people out of poverty?"
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