Dahlkemper on the Morality of the Budget

Kathy Dahlkemper was one of the pro-life Democrats who lost her bid for re-election last year. She has penned an op-ed at The Hill, which talks about the negative consequences for the pro-life cause were the House GOP budget to be adopted. And, in words that resonate with my post this morning about subsidiarity, she writes, "Red flags should go up when an elected official supports cutting or ending a program that guarantees assistance meeting people’s basic needs and offers no evidence or even explanation describing how these needs will be met. Legislators like Congressman Paul Ryan and Speaker Boehner often argue that private charity and philanthropy is all that is required of Christians and faithful citizens. This argument denies the moral imperative in Catholic social teaching to create a just society directed toward the common good."