The new liberal buzz word that is supposed to excuse every socialist move that Obama Administration makes is ironically called "Social Justice." It is based on the theory that society at large has a moral obligation to provide all members of that society with certain benefits, entitlements, and priviledge. It is my position that Social Justice is indeed not only unamerican, but in fact immoral and destructive to humanity.
I do agree that any civilized society has an obligation to care for the elderly, the disabled, the very young, and those citizens that due to personal circumstance are unable to care for themselves. This is basic humanity but unfortunately the progressives have taken this moral imperative and corrupted it and used it to ever increase the grasp of government in all of our lives.
Let's look at the welfare system that sprung forth from the civil rights movement of the 60's. While the best of intentions were the basis for the system, we only have to look at what it has evolved into and the negative impact it has had on countless lives to realize it is a system failed. In reality this program which was designed to give underpriviledged equal access to education, employment, decent housing, etc has become a form of slavery for America's poor. How can anyone justify a system where three and even four generations have lived entire lives 'on welfare'. How can anyone state that taking away people's motivation to succeed in educational endeavours is not in a very real way stealing a piece of their humanity. Visit any major city in the US and inquire of local law enforcement as to what are the most dangerous sections of town, and invariably you find they point out the gov't funded housing projects. These 'homes' have become nothing more than prisons holding generation after generation to a breed to get more money lifestyle. And what of the children born into these cultures? How many are encouraged to take advantage of the costly public education system? How many are taught from an early age that drug use/sales is an appropriate way of life? How many young poor women are indoctrinated to be ghetto breeders who's business is making babies to increase the monthly gov't check? Of course I am not painting all peoples living in these circumstance by the same brush, but isnt it true for the vast majority? How many success stories in our naiton come from the middle class or upper class and how many come from this 'do what feels good, the gov't owes us a living' culture. Aside from aspirations to become professional athletes, there is little to motivate people to move out of this system. The recent rape of a 7 year old in NJ inside a gov't welfare high rise gives witness to the abyss that this group of people have sunk into.
Another example of this ''social justice' gone bad is perversion of equal opportunity in the form of scholarship and college admissions. How does a society gain in quality or success when the best candidate for admission to our colleges is often passed over in the name of 'racial equality.' Not only does this steal opportunity from those that work hard in school and make the choices most beneficial to society at large, but it also paints the 'recipient' of such aswards as less worthy. This is a double edge sword wounding those selected and those rejected based on race only. The same holds true for hiring practices with similar criterial. I personally overheard a Human Resources Director state that today "We are hiring black women" so as to stay inside the misguided criteria set forth by affirmative action. I had two small children and a mortgage at the time. I was both physically and experientially more qualified, yet the company did indeed hire based on race. Where is the Justice in this? Do my children have less of a right to eat than those of other races or cultures? I think not. And what does this do to the company doing the hiring? It places less qualified and less capable people in positions, thus making the labor overhead less effective. There is not justice in these practices.
Yet another position of Social Justice has been taken by the liberal left and the Obama administration. With the passage of the Health Care bill, rightly named "Obamacare", there is yet another set of entitlements that people will not have to work for. Someone else will of course be paying thier way. Is that justice? To make the hard working taxpayers of this country slaves to the gov't to pay for those unwilling to earn their own living is no justice at all.
Social justice is a concept that is poisoning our population with a 'give me a hand out' mentality and making us weaker as a people. It steals ambition and motivation from those that should be working for their own welfare and replaces it with a despicable covert form of slavery instead. It steals the harvest from those that strive to take care of their own families and to prosper and 'redistributes' it to those unwilling and too lazy to earn a living. Can anyone really justify that everyone's cell phone bill includes a tax to provide cell phones to the welfare types? Is a cell phone truly a need or more of a want? Of course its not an essential need. Its more of this progressive 'social justice' crap. And why are there three generations of families living off the gov't dime? If this system of uplifting the poor had worked, wouldn't they eventually be off the system's teat?
Social Justice is a lie and all the support it are merely socialists in sheep's clothing. Make no mistake our new president and the Democrats in congress have proven beyond a doubt with their Health Care scam. They are socialists and they want YOU working for them and not yourselves.
