COPS/Metro to City Council on displacement: ‘We don’t want a study, we want action’
Did the ArchSA fail to cooperate with the Principle of Subsidiarity (on a prudential judgement issue, i.e. not intrinsic, and exhaust all means necessary before arm twisting the City via COPS/Metro Alliance “Saul Alinsky” tactics to spend more taxpayer money to bail out needy, displaced residents?
COPS/Metro to City Council on displacement: ‘We don’t want a study, we want action’
https://saheron.com/cops-metro-to-city-council-on-displace…/
Here’s what the Catholic Church teaches on the principle of Subsidiarity:
Principle of Subsidiarity
Socialization also presents dangers. Excessive intervention by the state can threaten personal freedom and initiative. The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which “a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.” CCC 1883
In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, neither the state nor any larger society should substitute itself for the initiative and responsibility of individuals and intermediary bodies. CCC 1894
The principle of subsidiarity is opposed to all forms of collectivism. It sets limits for state intervention. It aims at harmonizing the relationships between individuals and societies. It tends toward the establishment of true international order. CCC1885
2209 The family must be helped and defended by appropriate social measures. Where families cannot fulfill their responsibilities, other social bodies have the duty of helping them and of supporting the institution of the family. Following the principle of subsidiarity, larger communities should take care not to usurp the family’s prerogatives or interfere in its life.
As the City Of San Antonio Council voted on Thursday, March 21, 2019 to give $1,000,000 of money that belongs to taxpayers to displaced residents, it might be good to read San Antonio hero Davy Crockett’s speech while he was a Congressman from Tennessee:
“Mr. Speaker – I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”
-Congressman David Crockett of Tennessee, April 2, 1828 (edited date)
Remember: #Taxes on your home increased indirectly by San Antonio City Council under unnecessary city tax abatements (#CCHIPS) leads to city using $1,000,000 of tax payer money to smooth over #Displaced residents.
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