“I’m convinced, from study after study, and years of observing public policy, from the New Deal to the Great Society, to (on the plus side) the successful decentralization / block-granting of welfare done by President Clinton and the Republican Congress in the 1990s, that addressing poverty in the federal way preached by modern progressives—secular or non-secular—is counter-productive, fostering dependency.”
Professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College—Dr. Paul Kengor—weighs in on the issue of “social justice.” The “most enthusiastic practitioners of social justice,” he notes, “tend to advocate Big Government collectivism, pursued via a single, seemingly ever-expanding federal government. And although ‘social justice,’ in its origins, does not mean socialism, many liberal Christians have veered to that extreme.” “Really,” Dr. Kengor concludes, “the debate is over means, not ends. Liberals must realize that conservatives are hardly lacking in compassion when they oppose transferring poverty solutions to a single authority in Washington. Conservatives simply have a different prescription they feel works better.”
