demning the less fortunate to their status andnot honoring their rights to and equal chance of life, liberty, and happiness. Through the ideals stated in social justice, economicefficiency attempts to provide positive goods or services to all of society at minimal cost. The basic idea behind it is to put as little effort or money into something that provides the greatest amount of goods possible.As an example, the public school system, paid by the taxes of the public, provides an education for anyone in the community forfree. The public pays little individually to provide anyone an opportunity for an education. This role of government is needed to providebeneficial and efficient services to the public and to further social justice. In short, economic efficiency is needed to organize andprovide services that are beneficial to all of society. Government Intervention in the Economy is another additional role beyond thefour minimal roles of the government. This role allows the government to intervene in economic issues, promote social justice andmaintain its moral beliefs of economic justice. Things such as minimum wage and right to strike are topics of governmentintervention. In earlier years, the government allowed companies and industry to severely abuse and exploit the workers. AsElizabeth Phelps describes in "The Silent Partner," working conditions in the late 1800's were beyond exploitation. The wages wereliterally close to impossible to provide for a family and survive on, and the conditions were in most cases slowly killing the workers.(Bizzell&Herzberg 590) Today, because of economic intervention, the work force has the right to strike, and rightfully so, allowingthem to have some leverage to fight with, thus giving them power to stand up for their needs, wants and demands. This is, in a way, the executive branch of the five additional roles ofgovernment. It is a must in order to preserve and apply the morals set forth in social ju...
