The unveiling of the Bush budget is the clearest indication of where Bush and his compassionate conservatives place their values. The budget shows either reduced funding or cuts in numerous areas which will have a negative impact on America. A sample of his cuts or reduced funding include:
Cuts in home heating assistance for the poor – Let them freeze to death
Medicaid - Healthcare for the poor – Let them die in agony
Subsidies for growing cotton, rice, corn, soybeans and wheat – No help for the Blue States
Money to help repair our dams - Let them flood us out
Elimination or reduced funding for programs to help educate our children to include: Vocational Education, drug-free schools and literacy programs – From the Education President
Lack of funding to pay for the new border guards Bush proposed - The hell with homeland defense.
These are just a sample of the150 areas Mr. Bush has chosen to reduce the budget deficit. At the same time, his budget fails to include the $80 billion that he is asking for the Iraq War or any money for his Social Security private accounts. Next year comes the $50 billion for the Bush unfunded prescription drug benefit!
At the same time Mr. Bush is proposing to cut things that will have a negative impact on millions in our country, he wants to make his tax cuts permanent, especially those that benefit his wealthy supporters. Think of it, Bush wants to make permanent tax cuts for people making six and seven figure incomes while he cuts assistance to heat the poor people's homes, help the poor pay their medical bills, educate our children, repair our dams, help our farmers, protect our boarders, etc. Mr. Bush has clearly documented what is said in St. Luke chapter 12 ver 34, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”.
For a president who wears his religion on his sleeve, I suggest Mr. Bush pick up his Bible and read what his Lord Jesus Christ had to say about helping the poor and how difficult it is for a rich person to enter Heaven. St. Luke, Chapter 16 versus 20 through 31 is a good passage. That is the story of the servant Lazarus, who received almost nothing from the rich man and when they died, the rich man looked up from hell seeking help from Lazarus who was in heaven.
I for one do not use biblical citations very often but given the fact that George W. Bush continually references his Christian faith, I think he should reexamine his priorities in light of the teachings of the Savior he professes belief in! Those teachings would rescind the tax cuts for the wealthy to help the poor and eliminate the deficit.
God save the United States of America!