Subsidiarity. Learn it. Live it. Love it.
Last year during the run up to the eventual passing of the Obamacare bill, President Obama had to take to the airwaves several times to promote the bill. One significant reason why was the dextrous dubbing of care rationing panels as ‘death panels’ by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
When Palin gave a name to the fear, the poll numbers for the bill really began to crash. President Obama and his supporters were livid. They ran to any network that would put them on air to decry the use of the term and to personally ridicule Palin for saying it. They said over and over and over again, there is no such thing as a Death Panel.
So now the deed is done and guess what? President Obama’s Director of OMB says that the unelected Medicare advisory panel can and will make binding decisions on how much care is too much. A death panel.
Avoiding such monstrous and murderous machinery is why the Church has advocated the principle of subsidiarity as an organizing principle in the affairs of man. Simply stated, subsidiarity “is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.”
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April 27, 2010 at 5:15 pm
To this end, it has become a moral imperative to revoke, repeal, rescind Obamacare. The Church must unequivocally proclaim that duty to every Catholic or person of conscience. Othewise, “too much care” can be extended even to the very act of survival then we have “euthanasia” or to having too many children then we will have forced sterilizations. This is what we get from shying away to calling out the sinfulness of supporting Obama last elections.
April 27, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Private property rights and subsidiarity are clearly endorsed by the Catechism. Unfortunately many Catholics wouldn't know the Catechism if you hit them over the head with it.
April 27, 2010 at 5:40 pm
I invite you to refer to the link that I posted in your previous post on "Obamacare"
April 27, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Hitler and Stalin to name a few were death panel experts.
We humans are real good at it. 🙁
April 28, 2010 at 12:47 am
OT to Rick – I'm curious why your profile photo shows you in a Roman collar? Just curious…
April 28, 2010 at 2:58 pm
@BarefootMomma: Have you heard of the domestic church?
April 30, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Like I said, I was just curious. Are you advocating that all Catholic husbands wear a Roman collar to signify their priestly role in the family?