Posted on 12/24/2004 8:21:47 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
President Bush has implemented economic policies that resemble those of the Roman Empire, which forced the baby Jesus into homelessness on the night of his birth, former civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a pre-Christmas rant late Thursday.
"In the last [Bush] budget, we cut housing again, and that was Jesus' dilemma. In Bethlehem, his family ended up homeless," Jackson told MSNBC's Campbell Brown.
"Rome was a wealthy country that left Jesus and Mary and Joseph, in a sense, homeless," he complained. "He was born an at-risk baby."
The GOP bashing Democrat said that while Bush's reelection campaign had been successful in "marketing the language of religious values," the Bush White House isn't practicing what it preaches.
Jackson charged that under Bush's policies, the U.S. "appears to be indifferent toward the poor as we seek tax cuts and no-bid contracts for the wealthy; as we engage in wars of choice - driving our nation into isolation."
"Today we are celebrating the wealthy and war, not the poor and peace," he contended, while urging the Bush administration to "restore the Lyndon Baines Johnson vision where we wipe out poverty - not wipe out the poor."
I've been a great admirer of Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson for a number of years.
You have got to love a good salesman, Jesse could sell manure cones and make them sound good. Now that I think of it, selling manure is pretty much what he does. He is a fixture in American culture, much like Bozo and Ronald McDonald. OK, in order to be fair to him he fulfills a important function in American politics....I'm not sure what it is, but I am sure it's important.
He probably would have become homeless when the family fled the baby-killings and emigrated to Egypt. However, they had a nest egg given to them by some wealthy magi. It wasn't government aid, it was private donations that kept Joseph's family with a roof over their heads.
In short under Bush Jesus's family would not have been in the adverse situation that they were in because of their requirement to pay taxes.
Jesse is a racist, thug, mobster and father of bastard children out of marriage.
If he were a real reverend, he would have figured Christ's home was not of this world.
Jesse is about getting Jesse rich and that is it.
At risk because he was Our Lord, Jesus Christ, on Whom the 'reverend', of whatever it might be, has obviously turned his back. The 'reverend' is wealthy, a multi-millionaire it is said. He turns his back on Christ. He turns his back on the indigent, who will remain so after this Christmas, as Jesse builds a new wing on his house.
The risk is all yours, Jesse, when you turn your back on God. Justice! No peace for you, unless you quickly turn your life around.
First of all, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were NOT homeless. They had a home, they were just away from it. They were in a different city and accommodations were tight.
Oy vey.
**A WIC check will have necessary items like 14 oz. dry cereal, 12 eggs, 5 lbs flour, 1 gal whole milk, etc. and these are the only items which may be purchased. I've never collected WIC but I did work at a grocery store many years ago. Things may have changed**
Nope WIC still works that way, I am working as a Cashier at Walmart until I find a better job and while it can be a pain WIC is subject to less waste than food stamps because it is only basic foods needed by a child.
Tonight a guy bought two $25 Walmart Gift Cards using his Missouri Food Stamps debit card to pay for them (there is two options on the Food Stamps, ebt that only pays for food and cash which can be used just like cash from a ATM card).
Your taxpayer dollars have bought gift baskets this season, birthday cakes, lots of candy bars and snacks, some of the top of the line steaks and mushrooms and I think I even recall a customer buying Caviar with food stamps.
People with nicer clothes than I, Jewlery galore, wads of hundred dollar bills in the pocket but their food is bought on food stamps. Maybe one in five actually need the program to survive do to physical or mental handicaps and there is some who do to poor judgement or decision making might need some help but most on Food Stamps is just scamming the taxpayers.
Oh, yeah, LBJ, the Great Society, all that rot. Say, uh, Jesse: Weren't Democrats in charge of the Executive and Legislative branches during the race riots of the '60s? Weren't Democrats dominant in Congress all through the '60s and '70s?
Why, if LBJ was such a genius, do we still have poor people in America?
Sounds to me like you need another trip to the woodshed with Bill Cosby.
Yup. After all, he was not even a "planned, wanted child" as Joycelyn Elders would have put it. A case could be made that an exemption could be made for Mary as the victim of rape -- she had no say in her becoming a mother.
(Sorry for the irreverence, folks, but if Jesse wants to go there, I'll go right behind him, kicking his tail.)
Jesus would never have asked for anything from any government or city...his kindness would have enabled him to stay at anyone's home and to supper with those who had food aplenty. There is not one exampel that the Rev Jackson can use that would ever suggest that Jesus would have been homeless or in need of state care. Only a fool like Jackson would suggest such.
If I were Jackson, I'd be ashame to say such things. It really proves the level that he has sunk to the past five years. Numerous companies now shut the door on the Rainbow "screw" crew...those tricksters out to take company money to run the Jackson enterprise (a bottomless pit of waste). There is plenty that Jesus would say about the Rainbow crew...but it would be a harsh criticism of their foolish nature. But Jackson wouldn't want the public to see that side of their operation.
"Rome was a wealthy country that left Jesus and Mary and Joseph, in a sense, homeless," he complained. "He was born an at-risk baby."
"Rome was a wealthy country that left Jesus and Mary and Joseph, in a sense, homeless," he complained. "He was born an at-risk baby."
"Rome was a wealthy country that left Jesus and Mary and Joseph, in a sense, homeless," he complained. "He was born an at-risk baby."
What an abomination this play actor has become.
First off Jesus was fulfilling the Heavenly Father's prophecy. So if Jesse has a problem with the birth of Christ then he actually has a problem with the Heavenly Father.
NOT even the trouble maker Jesse could have run Rome or any place else differently.
Good answer!
Thanks, but I prefer post 68.
First off lets get some things right. Mary and Joseph were not homeless, they were well off because they had to travel to Jerusalem to pay their taxes and only the wealthy paid taxes.
Bishop Chane of Washington ain't much betta.
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