House Passes GOP Budget
"WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a GOP budget blueprint that promises a balanced federal ledger in 10 years through sweeping cuts across the federal budget and eliminating health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act."
My favorite reader comment from the above article:
"Republicans once again take from the poor and give it to the rich in Ryan's budget. I think that is a Reverse Robin Hood philosophy.
In America today, 6 in 10 Adults go to bed hungry at night and 4 in 10 Children go to bed hungry. Yet Republicans want to cut food stamps which would only make these numbers increase, not decrease.
Ryan's budget will cut taxes for the very rich in this country and raise taxes on the poor in this country. Republicans are against raising the minimum wage in this country that could help people who work 40 hours a week and still live in poverty feed their family.
Republicans want to repeal the ACA, but they want to keep the tax cuts that are in the ACA, just take away the health coverage that 10 million Americans are now enrolled in.
Jesus tells us to feed the hungry and care for the sick. He tells us what we do to the least among us, we do to Him. But Republicans have undoubtedly skipped Matthew 25 while they were thumping their Bibles.
Our church has a backpack program where we fill backpacks with food for children that are on reduced or free lunches at school so that they can have food on the weekends. But we're just one church in one city in one state.
It breaks my heart to think that Magnolia eats better than some children in this country and that Republicans pass a bill like this."
