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[ # ] Do Republicans Really Promote Moral Values? Take a look at Bush’s Budget!
February 7th, 2006 under Christianity, Hypocrisy, Politics, Walking Like Jesus, poor

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA):

It is scandalous to provide insufficient funding for our nation’s two greatest capital investments, health and education.

James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Bush cuts spending on Medicare and Pell Grants for the poor. Shame on you!
In regard to the impact of cuts in healthcare for children:

“This is an affront to America’s children. It will really hurt children today and for decades to come,” said Dr. Alan Fleischman of the New York Academy of Medicine, who chairs the study’s federal advisory committee.

One example: -Universal newborn hearing screening, a $10 million program that helps states provide those tests for poor families, usually administering them before babies leave the hospital. Detecting hearing loss early helps ensure that babies get appropriate services so they learn and develop properly.


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[ # 373 ] Comment from Jeff Richard Young [February 18, 2006, 9:39 am]

Dear Howie,

I’m glad to have come upon your place on the web. Okay, I’ll bite on your comments about the budget.

Two disclaimers first:
1. I’m no fan of the president. He is unable to think with moral clarity, and he operates on a system of values that defies any logic I have
ever learned.

2. So this comment is about your application of James 1:27, not about George W. Bush.

Here goes:

I agree, of course, that true RELIGION is to look after the helpless. But how do you take a verse that says religion is to look after the
helpless, then jump to saying that true GOVERNMENT is to look after the helpless. The answer is not for the governmnet to give to the,
poor, but rather for the government to get out of the charity business entirely, reduce taxes accordingly, and let the religious people
of our country take care of the helpless voluntarily.

You seem like a decent and intelligent fellow. I’ll be very interested to talk through this with you. I’m sure I’ll learn alot.

Love in Christ,

Jeff

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