Charley Honey’s recent column (“Religious voices have a place in the state’s budget cut discussions,” March 19) is an impassioned plea for bringing moral and theological analysis to bear on the public debt crisis in America. But, in following the line of “What Would Jesus Cut?” and similar campaigns, the argument falls short on a number of key points.
Certainly, Honey and others are right to point to the moral failure and the generational implications of a federal government that has racked up deficits upon deficits, to the tune of a federal debt of more than $14 trillion.
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