"Religion, Rangel and the Debt Ceiling" "what would Jesus do?" With some Baby Boomer angst from Polifrog

"Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., called out for his fellow lawmakers and all Americans
to do "the Lord's work" as a solution to fixing the debt ceiling.

"These are not political questions," Rangel asserted. "These are moral questions."

The raspy-voiced congressman urged spiritual leaders
to highlight the role federal programs including Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security play
in protecting the vulnerable, sick and poor
despite Washington's concern about the $14.3 trillion deficit.

When has the boomer generation ever known sacrifice?

...The national debt problem is their pig, but they refuse responsibility for it.

...they selfishly support ...debt over thrift, they choose “The Man” over liberty,

and they push poverty on all generations, but their own.

"Why don't you call your pastor, your rabbi, your imam?

There has to be a moral answer," Rangel preached to reporters.

It was just a year ago that the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
was censured by his colleagues for various ethical violations.

Before Rangel's comments, Friday's debate about cutting Social Security
was discussed at a Ways and Means subcommittee hearing
where congressmen vacillated on whether reforms would lessen the debt crisis.

The majority of the boomer generation never gave a thought beyond their own peers.

First rejecting the thrift, success and sacrifice of the greatest generation

then engorging themselves on a combination of free love, consumerism, and me-ism

made possible by the very sacrifice they rejected.

Now with the bill for all their excess firmly on the table,

they pass it on to subsequent generation,

...perpetually living off the plate of another.

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Polifrog

Today the U.S. borrows 40 cents for every dollar it spends,
much of it from the Chinese and sends the bill to our children and grandchildren,
and part of that's to cover Social Security," said Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas.

While lawmakers from both parties
are asking what President Obama is going to do about the debt ceiling,
Rangel continues to ask, "what would Jesus do?"

Bree

"Jesus entered the temple area

and drove out all those engaged in selling and buying there.

He overturned the tables of the money changers

and the seats of those who were selling doves.

And he said to them, "It is written: 'My house shall be a house of prayer,'

but you are making it a den of thieves." (Matthew 21:12)"

Via Karl

Where once churches and community helped the down trodden
we now funnel that help through a soulless government.


Never before has our country suffered a more worthless, selfish, shiftless, horrible,
or gluttonous group of malcontents
so intent on shifting their individual responsibility to society at large and beyond
than our aging boomer generation who refused all sacrifice.


Polifrog