I want to offer a respectfully different perspective to David Waas's letter to the News Journal. Social and economic justice sound so, well, progressive. Fair-sounding words, but let me give you an idea of what they really mean.
Say you are a professor and you have those students who study hard, don't spend their time partying and earn straight A's in your class. Then you have those who are away from home for the first time and discover that partying is the highlight of college. They don't study hard and earn F's. So you tell your straight-A students that to be fair to those who are earning F's they have to split their grades and share them with those "less fortunate" so everyone in your class earns a C. Social justice, it's only fair right?
Here's a good one. You put your money, blood, sweat and tears into finally opening your own business. You'll have employees and they'll be making a living. According to social justice, you do not tell them how to do their job, what time to arrive, and you must treat them as your equal in virtually everything in your business including ownership.
Then, say you are a professor and you have worked hard to get to where you are in life. You've got tenure with a very nice income, and you've traveled the world. You have a nice home and nice things. These great advances are possible based on the American way, capitalism and rugged individualism. To live by economic justice, you must take at least half of what you spend on travel, earn and have, and redistribute it to those who do not have what you have.
Maybe you get a S.S. check for about $850 a month but economic justice says you must share $425 with those who need S.S. but can't get it.
What a vicious cycle to be forced to sell your nice home to move into a home of half the value, so you can give the other half to one less fortunate. But you notice in your cheaper home that it is still nicer than someone else's. Uh oh. Now you must sell that one for a shack so you can give half the value to another. The shack is still better than someone living under a bridge, so sell it and buy a cardboard box and your almost there! Economic justice 101!
These are concepts designed to shame and destroy America.
The other issue of Democratic representatives walking off the job, being honorable? Imagine a world where anyone can walk off the job and not pay the consequences while still being paid. It would be utter chaos because almost everybody would do it. It's a disgraceful and a dishonorable thing to do.
