Missed this last week
More than 50 faculty members at Marquette University, including a dozen theologians, have issued a public letter to U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan criticizing his proposed budget as morally unjust and accusing him of distorting Catholic social teaching in its defense.continue at MKE JS
The letter echoes a protest issued late last month by 90 faculty and administrators at the Catholic Georgetown University in Washington, where Ryan defended his budget in a speech April 26, and similar criticisms levied by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The Marquette letter calls it "a glaring misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few."
"It is a question of balance," said Paul Misner, professor emeritus in the Department of Theology, who signed the Marquette letter. "Where is the balance in this budget?"
When it comes to the status quo, Marquette is ready to follow!
2 comments:
What's interesting about Paul Ryan's budget is that it is full of unknowns. The tax rates that are proposed, are only the rates, it doesn't explain who will pay what rate.
The tax loopholes he suggests to close are again, unknown. He promises to close them, but what are they?
By 2050 his budget proposes all discretionary spending to be at 4% of GDP. Since WWII, the military budget has never been under 3%, yet he will only slow the growth of the military budget, not cut anything, leaving 1% for everything else.
I don't know how one can defend his 'plan' as it is so full of questions and unknowns that there is little substance. What is known is that he refuses to even consider cutting the largest military budget in the world, yet feels that money for social services is somehow fair game. He should be criticized for that stance and nobody should be defending a 'budget' that is one big question mark.
I sound like a broken record here, but then someone needs to offer an alternative which is not the status quo.
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