With the U.S. presidential election looming, America is abuzz with the whimsical spirit of politics and debating all manner of domestic issues, Barack Obama’s record in office, Mitt Romney’s credentials, and Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. Throwing his views into the political fray is Jim Wallis, the famously liberal founder and CEO of Sojourners, an organization that publishes the most influential magazine of the Christian Left that goes by the same name.
Wallis recently released a video titled “Standing Up For a Moral Budget,” in which he laid out his philosophical and theological views of the federal budget. His first assertion was: “A budget shows who’s important, who’s not, what’s important, what’s not.” Wallis argues that what the government spends money on determines what the nation and politicians consider to be important. Therefore he argues to cut welfare shows that the government and politicians don’t care about the poor. At face value, this assertion may ring with the sound of truth, but it is very subtly deceptive.
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