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Republicans would have Jesus and his pals cutting coupons if it were up to them. However Rev. Jim Wallis and the Sojourners are hoping to remind the GOP who claim to have the corner on Christianity to make cuts that are more in line with the teachings of Jesus.
"Choosing to abandon the most vulnerable is not a moral choice" says Wallis. House Speaker Boehner equates debt as a moral threat, but the proposed cuts are anything but moral. Republicans would continue to preserve tax loopholes for CEO’s, corporate welfare, the military industrial complex, and subsidies for agri-business, big oil and gas. To make this possible, they intend to slash funds to education, medicaid, medicare and food stamps, which amount to a small portion of the budget. Rev. Wallis proposes using the priorities of Jesus, to help those who need it most.
Rev. Willis is obviously out of step with the ‘Christian Republican party.’ In order to preserve the ‘entitlement’ programs, he suggests that the top two percent pay their fair share in taxes, and that bringing 5,000 soldiers a year home would give us a million dollars with which to fund the programs they would cut. Somehow he thinks that feeding and educating people would take precedence over a bloated defense budget if Jesus were here to voice his opinion.