| My Neighbor’s Keeper? Rethinking Responsibility and the Role of Government
Messmore, Ryan
Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder #2058, August 2, 2007
“Government does not have a monopoly on responsibility for meeting people's needs. However, government has increasingly become the primary default setting when discussion turns to who is obligated to care for others. The result is less personal and efficient care for individuals and a weakening of our social fabric of responsibility and sense of moral obligation to one another through a variety of relationships.”
Ryan Messmore is William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation.
Go to the backgrounder:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Religion/bg2058.cfm
C11/05-07. Posted August 28, 07 |
