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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

Yes would. It would also deliver the state of Wisconsin to the GOP, a state Obama needs to stay in his regime.

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is perfectly willing to follow the dictates of the Catholic bishops on limiting women's access to reproductive health care. Funny how he ignores his church when it advises caring for the poor, ending war—and supporting President Obama's proposed federal budget instead of Ryan's own "starve the poor, help the wealthy" plan.

Perhaps the architect of the make-poor-people-pay plan hasn't read the recent guidance from the Conference of Catholic Bishops that "a just framework for future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons; it requires shared sacrifice by all, including raising adequate revenues, eliminating unnecessary military and other spending, and addressing the long-term costs of health insurance and retirement programs fairly."

Let's remind Paul Ryan of his church's advice.

Call out Paul Ryan by sending him a copy of the statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops denouncing his budget proposal.

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A "Cafeteria Catholic" is someone who simply picks and chooses what they want to believe as if they were in the line at the cafeteria.

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That's what you want isn't it? A secular government? You progressives should be all for Ryan's "anti-faith" budget.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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That's what you want isn't it? A secular government? You progressives should be all for Ryan's "anti-faith" budget.

A secular government does not have to be cruel just for the sake of being cruel which is what Ryan's budget does.

The Ryan budget offers huge additional tax cuts to the very wealthiest paid for by cutting the most basic safety net programs. How does that make any sense?

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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) - chairman of the House Budget Committee and a Catholic who says he prays daily for the fiscal health of our country - has released a federal budget proposal that fails the moral test of his own faith tradition and disregards our nation's responsibility to care for the most vulnerable. His misguided plans call for the elderly, working Americans and the poor to sacrifice even more, while corporations and millionaires are rewarded with generous tax breaks...

Ryan takes his Catholic faith seriously and has defended his policy approach in strong moral terms. But it seems he needs a refresher course in basic Catholic teaching. The Catholic justice tradition - as defined by bishops and popes over the centuries - holds a positive role for government, advocates a "preferential option for the poor" and recognizes that those with greater means should contribute a fair share in taxes to serve the common good.

Ryan and other conservatives hold tax cuts for hedge fund managers on Wall Street sacred even as they dismiss concern about rising income inequality as "class warfare." In contrast, Pope Benedict XVI denounces the "scandal of glaring inequalities."...

It seems that Ryan's budget is more indebted to his hero Ayn Rand than to the message of Jesus. Rand, a libertarian icon who mocked all religion and rejected the Gospel's ethic of compassion, has been praised by Ryan for explaining "the morality of individualism." Catholic values reject such radical individualism and the social callousness that it breeds.

A Catholic vision for a just economy is rooted in the conviction that we are all in this together, and not just isolated individuals locked in a Darwinian struggle for survival. In fact, it was another Ryan - the noted writer on labor and inequality, Msgr. John Ryan - who in 1919 drafted a bold plan for Catholic bishops that helped lay the moral groundwork for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

These visionary proposals, which included a call for minimum wages, insurance for the elderly and unemployed, labor rights and housing for workers, put human dignity at the heart of public policy. It's tragic that nearly a century later, influential Catholic members of Congress are now promoting economic agendas that undermine and even betray this proud legacy.

We need to reject the false and immoral choice that we can only address the national debt and be fiscally responsible if we balance budgets on the backs of those already straining to stand up straight.

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Would make a damn good Vice President

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Yes would. It would also deliver the state of Wisconsin to the GOP, a state Obama needs to stay in his regime.

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

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That's what you want isn't it? A secular government? You progressives should be all for Ryan's "anti-faith" budget.

A secular government does not have to be cruel just for the sake of being cruel which is what Ryan's budget does.

The Ryan budget offers huge additional tax cuts to the very wealthiest paid for by cutting the most basic safety net programs. How does that make any sense?

It makes perfect sense if you drop the progressive "screw the poor in favor of the rich" spin.

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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper

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Yes would. It would also deliver the state of Wisconsin to the GOP, a state Obama needs to stay in his regime.

I hear back home there's buyer's remorse regarding Ryan.