Paradoxes of Faith

…With his screwing of the needy to benefit his war machine and the contractors who profit from the aforementioned quagmires.

I thought Mr. Bush’s submission of a $2.77 trillion Budget last year was shocking…..
As of today, Mr. Bush’s recently submitted Budget is a proposed $2.9 trillion…
Take that, fiscal conservatives….and poor people….and people who need prescription drugs, and……

At least Bush is consistent about his priorities:

“My formula for a balanced budget reflects the priorities of our country at this moment in its history, protecting the homeland and fighting terrorism, keeping the economy strong with low taxes and keeping spending under control,” Mr Bush said in a statement.

Consistent in his ideology, anyway. How does he plan to keep spending under control by boosting support for two concurrent wars we are not winning in both Iraq and Afghanistan? And how does he have the cajones to threaten Iran and Syria in the first place, let alone to do so while feeding the American people, whose wool scarves he somehow hopes will again find themselves wrapped over said public’s eyes, a Budget M.O. about ‘keeping spending under control’.

He will try, at least, to do so through the vehicle of cutting spending going to the poor, something any good conservative, Bible-believing leader would do, right?

Let’s ask Ezekiel and see what he thinks: (from Ezekiel 22)

23 Again the word of the LORD came to me: 24 “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.’ 25 There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. 26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. 28 Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says’—when the LORD has not spoken. 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. 31 So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

May we come to a day when the Prince, Prophets, Priests, and the People no longer actively commit injustice and shed blood, nor look away from it when our nation advances itself on the backs and through the blood of the marginalized….let alone when we seek to shed blood overseas while simultaneously compromising the basic health coverage and care for millions of Americans at home.

Yours, Mr. Bush, are not the priorities of a true American, but the priorities of dilettante approach to compassion, let alone peace.