Posted on 01/30/2015 4:50:18 AM PST by dontreadthis
Matthew 25 includes a call for more entitlement spending and provides biblical justification for Obamacare, or so says Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Promoting Obamacare in South Dakota, Montana and several national interviews last week, Kasich touted the Bible chapter’s depiction of judgment based on individual charity as a sweeping endorsement of government programs for the poor.
Kasich, a Republican, campaigned against Obamacare in 2010, saying the law’s Medicaid expansion would “stick states with large and unsustainable costs.” He unilaterally implemented the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in 2013.
The Obamacare expansion puts able-bodied, working-age adults with no dependent children on Medicaid at a cost of billions per year in new federal spending. By Kasich’s description, Matthew 25 amounts to a divine endorsement of the policy.
“Now, if you ever read Matthew 25, I think, ‘I wanna feed the hungry and clothe the naked,'” Kasich said when asked about Obamacare at a Jan. 20 event in Pierre, South Dakota.
“Now, I don’t know whether you ever read Matthew 25, but I commend it to you, the end of it, about do you feed the homeless and do you clothe the poor,” Kasich told Montana legislators when asked about Obamacare at a Helena press conference the next day.
Kasich cited Matthew 25 when defending his Obamacare expansion during a Fox News interview aired Jan. 22, during a Jan. 22 Hugh Hewitt interview and during an NPR interview aired Friday.
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My governor in Michigan is a RINO and he just signed a law that allows us to pay retainers to doctors which gives us access to routine services without insurance.
The Bible does not say “THE GOVERNMENT should feed the hungry....”
Certainly. You open your checkbook and give out of charity.
But you do not raise taxes on those middle class members who are already struggling. That is NOT charity!
I always get Kasich and Kucinich mixed up. Apparently, so does Kasich.
I think the Obamacare money spenders have figured out that they need to toss some money even to the GOP, in order to keep riding this gravy train
Follow the money.. where is he getting funding from now?
The key word, Mr. Kasich, is INDIVIDUAL charity.
It is not possible for a government to practice individual charity, because the government is not an individual.
This must be a new gospel—salvation through government force.
Is that in the Book of Obama?
They have some real good dirt on this guy or his cheese has slipped off his cracker.
You are free to use as much of your own money as you wish to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. What you are NOT free to do (in a free country), is utilize the power of government to force OTHER people to spend THEIR money to feed the hungry and clothe the naked.
Excellent!
“THOU SHALT NOT LIE” is in there too!
Such a good idea.
Of course, if what Kasich says is true, and Obamacare is Bible-based, then it is a CLEAR violation of the left’s precious “separation of Church and State” and is, therefore, an unconstitutional usurpation of our rights under the 1st Amendment.
;-)
If Kasich really said, and meant that, he is a blithering idiot.
That and a very big difference is the individual gives what they earned out of the goodness of their heart, versus the Government confiscating funds under threat of imprisonment to hand out for political gain.
So haw many naked, hungry people are there in Pierre, South Dakota in January?
In the United States, in 2015, there are very few, if any, naked and/or hungry people who don't want to be naked and/or hungry.
It should be taken national as part of a plan to get rid of Obamacare.
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