Religious Leaders Slam Ryan For Using Catholic Faith To Justify Cutting Programs That Help The Poor
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2012/04/12 17:45:33
Gee, Ryan is giving up so much in the name of his religion. Only thing is, the middle class and poor are the ones who will give up so much.
Religious Leaders Slam Ryan For Using Catholic Faith To Justify Cutting Programs That Help The Poor
By Travis Waldron on Apr 12, 2012 at 11:45 am
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told Christian
Broadcast Network earlier this week that the House GOP’s budget, which
he wrote, was driven by his Catholic faith. “A person’s faith is central
to how they conduct themselves in public and in private,” Ryan said,
and Catholic principles are what led him to cut programs for the poor so
as to keep people from becoming “dependent on government.”
As ThinkProgress noted Tuesday, Ryan’s budget seems to ignore
Catholic social teaching that calls for protecting the poor and
improving access to food, jobs, health care, housing, and the social
safety net. And now religious leaders are making the same case. The
founder of the PICO National Network, the largest national coalition of
religious congregations, slammed Ryan’s claim of adherence to Catholic
teaching as “the height of hypocrisy” in a release circulated Wednesday:
“It’s the height of hypocrisy for Rep. Ryan to claim that his
approach to the budget is shaped by Catholic teaching and values,” said
Fr. John Baumann, S.J., founder of PICO National Network. “A central
moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects “the least of
these” (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless,
without work or in poverty should come first.”
“By these measures,” the release says, “the Ryan budget is a severe
failure,” noting that it cuts Medicare, Medicaid, Pell Grants, food
stamps, and “other programs that help vulnerable working families make
it through tough times and live better lives,” while giving massive tax
breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporations. Overall, 62 percent
of Ryan’s budget cuts come from programs that benefit the poor. “The
mission of the Church is to ‘bring good news to the poor’ and to protect
the vulnerable, not to justify the impoverishment of the very young,
the very old and the sick in order to enrich the wealthy,” the release
says.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/12/463211/catholic-l...
More about PICO:
http://www.piconetwork.org/about
Religious Leaders Slam Ryan For Using Catholic Faith To Justify Cutting Programs That Help The Poor
By Travis Waldron on Apr 12, 2012 at 11:45 am
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told Christian
Broadcast Network earlier this week that the House GOP’s budget, which
he wrote, was driven by his Catholic faith. “A person’s faith is central
to how they conduct themselves in public and in private,” Ryan said,
and Catholic principles are what led him to cut programs for the poor so
as to keep people from becoming “dependent on government.”
As ThinkProgress noted Tuesday, Ryan’s budget seems to ignore
Catholic social teaching that calls for protecting the poor and
improving access to food, jobs, health care, housing, and the social
safety net. And now religious leaders are making the same case. The
founder of the PICO National Network, the largest national coalition of
religious congregations, slammed Ryan’s claim of adherence to Catholic
teaching as “the height of hypocrisy” in a release circulated Wednesday:
“It’s the height of hypocrisy for Rep. Ryan to claim that his
approach to the budget is shaped by Catholic teaching and values,” said
Fr. John Baumann, S.J., founder of PICO National Network. “A central
moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects “the least of
these” (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless,
without work or in poverty should come first.”
“By these measures,” the release says, “the Ryan budget is a severe
failure,” noting that it cuts Medicare, Medicaid, Pell Grants, food
stamps, and “other programs that help vulnerable working families make
it through tough times and live better lives,” while giving massive tax
breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporations. Overall, 62 percent
of Ryan’s budget cuts come from programs that benefit the poor. “The
mission of the Church is to ‘bring good news to the poor’ and to protect
the vulnerable, not to justify the impoverishment of the very young,
the very old and the sick in order to enrich the wealthy,” the release
says.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/12/463211/catholic-l...
More about PICO:
http://www.piconetwork.org/about
..."Overall, 62 percent of Ryan’s budget cuts come from programs that benefit the poor...
Well, no surprise there. This is the same Paul Ryan who started charging people to come to his town hall meetings because there were " certain segments of the population" that were discouraged from attending. Translation... working poor and middle class, stay back.