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With Sojourners, I assess that the 2006 budget bill passed by the Senate yesterday — at Christmas! — is immoral because it cuts spending for those among us least able to sustain further financial burden, even as U.S. military spending spirals out of control ($6 billion per month on Iraq alone).

That my senator Bill Frist declared this vote “Victory No. 1” conveys more to me than he probably intended.

Because the bill has been amended, the House of Representatives must vote on it again soon. Hence with full sincerity I write to my representative again today:

As a person of faith from Tennessee, I ask you to please vote NO on the new budget bill that the Senate passed. Please do not take away health care from low-income families, the elderly, and others, as this budget will do.

I believe the scriptural wisdom, “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God” (Proverbs 14:31).

As a U.S. taxpayer, I want to help my neighbor in need. In contrast, I do not want my tax dollars going into the bottomless pit of military spending.

Yes, be vigilant about controlling federal spending, but please do it in a way that accrues blessing according to the Bible, not a curse.

Thank you.
Mike

We can do better than this. And indeed we must, else “God bless America” will be drained even further of meaning and likelihood.

We lose money on every transaction, but we make it up in volume.

WaPo: David Broder: ‘Bush is dragging two huge weights — and he has no one to blame but himself.’