Democrats must seize momentum from Katrina

Austin American-Statesman ^ | Friday, September 23, 2005 | Emma Graves Fitzsimmons

[Numbers Guy]

He says the Bible makes more references — about 3,000 — to helping the poor than any other topic

The Bible most certainly does make such references--to VOLUNTARY efforts to helping the poor.

[pabianice]

LIBERALISM is the social disaster and cause of poverty.

[listenhillary]

Dems solutiuon? Another 7 trillion ought to finally rid us of poverty. It will work trust us!

[OpusatFR]

Shouldn't the Title read:

"Democrats Seek to Dance on Graves of Katrina's Victims"

[i_dont_chat]

I've said this for years: The Government should not be in the business of charity work.

That is the job of our churches and faith-based initiatives.

Thank you for listening.

[I still care]

The Bible asks the INDIVIDUAL to help the poor. When the government steps in, it takes away the personal resposibility Jesus has placed on each soul to help those in need. We can ignore because "government" will help.

Government is not a charity. We are not allowed, as Christians, to say, "we gave at the office". According to the Bible, it is the church, defined as the body of Christ unified in Him, who is to help the poor. Along with individual acts of goodness.

[thoughtomator]

Interesting to see an outright exhortation to take craven and cynical advantage of a natural disaster.

[excalibur1701]

>>"Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to expose a social
>>disaster," Wallis said.

Yes....a welfare disaster.

[joesnuffy]

Social Change through crisis management...

Man made or allowed by God- either way...exploit it

For your own or your party's ends...

Vacuous amoral clergy and other poverty pimps...

imo

[Huck]

Hilarious headline. I had to double check to make sure it wasn't satire. No fooling.

[joesnuffy]

It's the MO of the National Socailists the International Socialists & 3rd Way...

An interesting tug of war...

[The Clemson Tiger]

What the good reverend fails to realize is that the Democratic party's efforts for the poor are about buying their votes, not helping them out of poverty...

[George Smiley]

The correct response is:

"You controlled Congress and fought poverty for forty years."

"Clearly, poverty won and you lost."

[day10]

Sheeesh - speaking of stuck on stupid.......

[ntnychik]

Personally, I could have used a "barf alert."

[danamco]

The Bible asks the INDIVIDUAL to help the poor. When the government steps in, it takes away the personal resposibility Jesus has placed on each soul to help those in need. We can ignore because "government" will help.

Government is not a charity. We are not allowed, as Christians, to say, "we gave at the office". According to the Bible, it is the church, defined as the body of Christ unified in Him, who is to help the poor. Along with individual acts of goodness.



The libs need to learn from the simple story: "Give a fish for a ONE meal vs. teach the people to fish, etc.!!!

[Spok]

Katrina exposed the consequences of what happens when Democrats are in charge. If our history of social experimentation that began with the Great Society under LBJ has taught us anything, it's that welfare only succeeds in creating an underclass of economically dependent people who forget how or otherwise refuse to take care of themselves. The 'rugged individual' has been replaced with the 'frail collectivist' whose only claim to social or economic competence is the right to vote.