Evangelicals push back on proposed budget cuts (gas prices, Congress, Iraq)
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Balancing the federal budget at the expense of the poor would be un-Christian, evangelical leaders warned Congress on Thursday (March 3) as they work to reject proposed spending cuts to domestic and foreign aid.
Balancing the federal budget at the expense of the poor would be un-Christian, evangelical leaders warned Congress on Thursday (March 3) as they work to reject proposed spending cuts to domestic and foreign aid.
Doesn't surprise me. Richard Cizik was quoted in the article. He used to head up the National Association of Evangelicals....but stepped down because of scandal. He's very liberal. Yes....we need to take care of the poor. But there comes a time when you have to say enough is enough.
It's sad that people will read this garbage and assume that all evangelicals feel that way. We don't. We are not represented by some yahoo that claims to speak for us.
Doesn't surprise me. Richard Cizik was quoted in the article. He used to head up the National Association of Evangelicals....but stepped down because of scandal. He's very liberal. Yes....we need to take care of the poor. But there comes a time when you have to say enough is enough.
It's sad that people will read this garbage and assume that all evangelicals feel that way. We don't. We are not represented by some yahoo that claims to speak for us.
Uhhh...Did you read the article?
The evangelical leaders, convened by the left-leaning group Faith in Public Life, face an uphill challenge in trying to win over fellow evangelicals: a recent poll found that evangelicals are more likely than Americans overall to support cutting foreign aid while also supporting increased military spending.
Cause if anyone reads that and comes away with assuming that "all evangelicals feel that way," they don't have particularly good reading comprehensions skills, to put it nicely.
Doesn't surprise me. Richard Cizik was quoted in the article. He used to head up the National Association of Evangelicals....but stepped down because of scandal. He's very liberal. Yes....we need to take care of the poor. But there comes a time when you have to say enough is enough.
It's sad that people will read this garbage and assume that all evangelicals feel that way. We don't. We are not represented by some yahoo that claims to speak for us.
Exactly it's time to say enough is enough to the War in Iraq and the War in Afghanistan. It's time to end the "War" on Terror and cut the bloated military budget. It's time for the government to repeal the un-Patriot Act and stop spying on it's own citizens. War should be the FIRST thing cut. If we'd stop flushing billions and billions of dollars down the drain known as the Middle East year after year we might not be in such a terrible position.
Next we need to address our trade deficit which is a millstone around our collective necks. A 6.1 trillion dollar millstone by the way. One way to do this is to end globalization and bring jobs back to American soil. Of course the corporate fat cats will never allow that to happen as it would cut too deep into their exorbitant profit margins. Why pay an American 15 bucks an hour, 40 hours a week to make trinkets when you can simply send that job to the other side of the globe and pay a slave laborer 50 cents an hour 100 hours a week?
So we import just about everything and have the exports of a third world nation, yet we assured the "global economy" is in our best interest. Jobs are leaving and never coming back, inflation is skyrocketing, oil and gas prices are shooting the roofs and we blame the economic downturn and budget problems on the poor? We're being sold down the river by fat cats and their politician enablers and we're blaming the poor. Amazing.
Let's think about cuts in terms of what Jesus would have done. Are there any words of his that could guide Christians as to what we should cut?
I'd be that Jesus would suggest we not spend what we don't have, for starters.
Or maybe that if you don't work, you don't eat. After all, one of his apostles wrote that.
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