Posted on 12/02/2013 12:18:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) told the Rev. Al Sharpton of MSNBC on Wednesday that Sharpton and the pope are "on the same wavelength." McDermott's observation on what he perceives as the similarity between Sharpton and the pope came up in a discussion of food stamps. McDermott noted that when Jesus fed five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fish, “he didn’t charge food stamps.”
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“When Jesus had those five loaves and two fishes, he didn't charge food stamps. He didn't ask anybody how much money they had. He fed them because they were hungry, and that's really where we ought to be,” McDermott said in response to Republican critics of the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). In September, the House approved a plan by Republicans to cut $39 billion in food stamps over the next 10 years. In 2009, there were 33,489,975 people on food stamps. As of Nov. 8, 2013, a total of 47,666,124 people participated in the SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). “Congressman, what do your Republican congressman say to you when you tell them how much their policies are really hurting real people, real poor people?” Rev. Al Sharpton, host of “PoliticsNation,” asked McDermott. “They really don't believe it, Rev. They're not listening to the pope. You and the pope are on the same wavelength. The income equality is just going by most of these people. What they ought to be done is require that they go to a food bank at a church or something, somewhere in their neighborhood and stand there and talk to the people,” McDermott said. “You would find out these are not people who are not trying. They're not people who are taking from the public. They're not people who want to be there. They're people who are ashamed in many instances to be doing something they never thought they’d be brought to, and they're having difficulty, and we're the richest nation in the world,” he added. “And he didn't call them names,” Sharpton said.
The State = Jesus.
Given the Pope’s recent pronouncements on capitalism, free markets, and taxation, I don’t think the congressman is far off the mark.
Utter nonsense! Do liberals have to lie about everything?
We could always feed them for free and have them listen to the same message Jesus preached as they were eating.
What you think is erroneous...most likely due to a bad translation and to a press and liberal faction bent on conforming everything to suit their POLITICAL agenda.
:-)
I like that idea...lol!
Jesus didn’t ask Pilot to provide the bread and fishes.
CC
Always with a qualifier, these libtards!!!!
It is also important to note that Jesus didn't STEAL the bread and fish to feed the 5000!!!
I hope and pray that you are right...that the Pope’s recent comments on economics were NOT properly translated. Because it sound very socialistic to mefrom the translations I read. And I’m a Catholic. But that doesn’t prevent me from having my own positions on issues. Lately I have found myself in disagreement with a number of public policy issues with the Church, especially on the subject of illegal immigration among others.
Fine, when they apply for food stamps you give 5 loaves of bread a 2 carp.
Sharptounge should be able to feed his entire hood with that.
The pope is a racist that incites riots now? What? Good Lord, Democrats are just looking dumber every day. Pelosi wants to be the pope also. She thinks the pope is all wrong and that she is the better Catholic. Crazy libs
I think the Democrat Party is the Whore of Babylon
Jesus fed the 5000 to glorify His Father.
Leftists use foodstamps to glorify themselves and government.
Everybody send this idiot your grocery bill for a month with the simple words “I’m hungry” and see if he pays up.
I was disappointed with the Pope’s comments, third world Pope, third world idea’s
More needs to be made of the fact that whenever someone is “given” something through the government,
it first had to be stolen from someone else, using the threat of deadly force.
Odd, Does McDermott think he can perform the miracle of Jesus and transform 5 loaves and 2 fishes and feed 5000? And will he preach repentance afterwards? Will he condemn the sins of the democrats? Will he offer them eternal life? What does he think he will do?
Not to mention the lesson that if you “give” a man a fish, he eats for a day . . . !
Oh, they like “giving” the fish, with the implication that if you don’t comply with their will, they’ll deny you the “fish” tomorrow.
and He did not feed them forever. Just the one meal and that was it. He did not say we should collectively feed the poor, but individually as in charitable giving. What we are doing is the antithesis of Christianity.
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