God and Class Warfare

Well, let’s be clear: There really is a class war going on and the upper class is winning . . . As former President Bill Clinton also pointed out this week, 90 percent of income gains in the last decade went to the top 10 percent, and 40 percent of the increased wealth went to the top 1 percent . . . Almost fifty million Americans are now in poverty — the largest rate in 50 years, including 22 percent of all our children — in this the richest country in the world . . . [T]he top 1 percent of the country controls 42 percent of the nation’s financial wealth — more than 90 percent of the rest of us — and the ratio of CEO pay to average workers salaries at 400-to-1 . . . 

God’s prophets say that nations will be judged by how they treat the poor and vulnerable — not by how much they lower tax rates for the wealthy
. . . In 2008, the wealthiest 400 Americans on average paid only 18 percent of their income in taxes . . . Growing income inequality actually hinders economic growth, and reducing economic inequality actually helps spur the economy[.] Read more . . . 

Thank You, Tony Bennett

By Michael Moore

Thank God for Tony Bennett. He spoke the truth on Howard Stern and now the forces of hate are after him. He said that his fighting in World War II made him a pacifist. He said that perhaps had our behavior in the Persian Gulf been different, 9/11 might have been avoided. And he told Howard something George W. Bush told him privately at the Kennedy Center Honors: “I may have made a mistake (invading Iraq).” Here’s the interview on Stern. Thank you, Tony Bennett. Always a hero to me. See video and blog comments here . . . 

Timothy Dolan Issues Letter To Obama About Gay Marriage

The nation’s top Catholic bishop issued a stern challenge to the Obama administration’s decision not to support a federal ban on [same-sex] marriage, and warned the president that his policies could “precipitate a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions . . . ” He also argued that traditional marriage is best for society, and that treating [same-sex] marriage as a civil right would lead to discrimination against believers and against church agencies that could not, for example, accommodate gay couples as adoptive parents . . . In especially strong language, it also argues that the administration treats millions of Americans who oppose [same-sex] marriage “as if they were bigots.”
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NEWS FLASH: There is a reason why “the administration treats millions of Americans who oppose [same-sex] marriage ‘as if they were bigots, . . . ‘” because the millions of Americans who oppose [same-sex] marriage ARE BIGOTS!