“We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there…But Coretta knew, and we know, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor!”
I received this in an email this morning, obviously Rev. Lowery is the good Liberal and doesn't believe in facts.
From the Press Enterprise ,Bloomsburg, PA., Sunday Feb 12, 2006 “Roses and Thorns” in the editorial section of the paper
Just about the last thing you expect to hear at a funeral is a minister telling lies. But it happened Tuesday at services for Coretta Scott King. The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., said: “For war, billions more, but no more for the poor” This was greeted, the Associated Press reported, by “a roaring standing ovation.” But the fact that most of the audience was fooled made it no less a lie. The truth, it so happens, had been published just that morning in many of the nation’s newspapers: a chart that summarized spending proposed in George Bush’s fiscal 2007 budget. At the top, and by far the largest expense, was $698 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services. Much of this is money for “the poor.” Right under that was $625 billion for Social Security, a program created to keep the elderly from becoming poor. Bush proposed increases for both: 3.1 percent and 5.2 percent,respectively. In fourth place on the big spending list was the Department of Defense at $491 billion; that’s a proposed spending cut of 8.7 percent. So, Rev. Lowery, the truth is this: $1.3 trillion for the “poor,” billions less for war.
I would like to ask one of these liberal black Christian preachers if Abe Lincoln was wrong when he said that a nation cannot survive "half slave and half free." And if Lincoln was not wrong, what is wrong with Bush trying to extend freedom into parts of the world where it has never existed? I would like to ask these blacks if their freedom is more im[ortant than the freedom of Iraqis. I would like to ask them why 2,500 deaths for Iraqi freedom is too high a price, but 600,000 deaths for the freedom of black Americans was just fine. These people sicken me.