Quaker group warns that bush's new budget undermines basic values

[Sapphire Blue]

QUAKER GROUP WARNS THAT PRESIDENT BUSH’S NEW BUDGET UNDERMINES BASIC VALUES

“It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess.”
--William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, No. 52

Philadelphia – February 8 – President Bush’s proposed fiscal year 2007 federal budget violates religious teachings calling for fairness and is at odds with the needs and values of ordinary Americans, according to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker social justice organization.

“Quakers believe there is ‘that of God’ in every person, which leads us to value dignity, justice, and fairness,” noted Mary Ellen McNish, AFSC general secretary. “These are basic American values. The budget violates these values by cutting vital programs for low- and middle-income Americans while continuing huge tax breaks that favor the most well-off.”

“In addition, the budget drains away needed resources to pay for a war that has made us less secure. We believe that is morally and fiscally irresponsible.”

Continued @ http://www.afsc.org/news/2006/new-federal-budget.htm

[Selatius]

1. But, but, but giving rich folks tax breaks helps the poor!

Trickle-down economics works! Look at Chile under Pinochet's free-market principles! Thriving! People got stinking filthy rich down there! (Nevermind the majority who didn't; they're not white, so they don't count) :sarcasm:

[CornField]

2. They plan to pee... err... trickle on the poor

Trickle-down economics didn't work before and it won't work now.

[ladjf]

3. I like the way the "Friends" think. If I were religious, which I'm not,

I'd be a Quaker.