The Budget Is A Moral Issue

Unfortunately, the "Christ-filled" party of the greedy does not care about the needy. Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojo.net often says that the budget is a moral issue. It's too bad they don't get that giving tax cuts to the richest in America while cutting funds for the poorest is as immoral as it is sinful.

The Senate took up far-reaching legislation yesterday that would slice $39 billion over the next five years from a slew of entitlement programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, student loans and agriculture subsidies, while raising revenue by opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. A final vote is due Thursday.

The House will go further. Most likely by Thursday, the House Budget Committee will take up eight different bills from eight different committees saving at least $50 billion over five years. In so doing, the legislation will rewrite welfare laws, curb federal support of state child-support enforcement, reverse a court-mandated expansion of foster-care programs, and make significant changes to Medicaid, such as allowing states to add co-payments and premiums for families just above the poverty line. The full House is expected to take up the measure next week.

I wonder if the poor and elderly who voted for Bush understand that it's not what someone says, it's what they do? Many of them will die or go hungry finding out.