I see that a bunch of professors at Catholic universities opposed the presence of Speaker of the House John Boehner (http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/cassidy/110519).
It seems they think he isn't supportive enough of government intervention in people's lives.
Well, you'll have to forgive me, but I thought that this sort of thing was way beyond government's job.
What I prefer is a government small enough that I can keep enough of my money to donate to the charities of my choice and where I know it can do the most good, and not have my hard-earned dollars confiscated and redistributed at some bureaucrat's whim. (This is also in keeping with the Catholic notion of subsidiarity.)
If these professors (who, while they may teach at Catholic schools, don't seem particularly Catholic; I wonder how many support abortion) believe that the only way the poor in this country will ever receive help is by forced contribution, they show a remarkably weak faith in Catholic teaching--and far too much faith in faceless bureaucrats.
For a more reasonable approach to this, see this link:
"...[A]n ongoing dialogue between Paul Ryan, a Catholic from Wisconsin, who is the House Budget committee chairman, and Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the president of the Catholic bishop’s conference, about Catholic social teaching and its application to the current budget debate."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/267678/shepherding-moral-economic-policy-paul-ryan-and-archbishop-dolan-s-dialogue-catholic-s
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