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Bush’s Actions are an Affront to Real Christian Values

J.G. Schwam - July 7, 2005

Actions speak louder than words. In terms of the words that George W. Bush uses to express his so called faith his words are exasperatingly hollow. In terms of true Christian values his actions are duplicitous to the point of obloquy.

"We are called by our Creator to use this gift of freedom to build a more compassionate society -- where families are strong, life is valued and the poor and the sick can count on the love and help of their neighbors," Bush said in a satellite address in June to the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the most influential conservative evangelical groups.

Since his tenure a titular head of the US government he has worked against the middle class and the poor, shifting the tax burden onto their already overburdened backs, striping away federal funding for medical and social safety nets. This federal de-funding of social safety nets has shifted the tax burden to the states and counties to point that they are forced reassess for tax purposes homes that sell at as much as one hundred times their purchase price of years ago. The result, an escalating number of Middle America and lower can no longer afford the huge property huge tax increases on the inflated values of their homes, as the states to maintain cursory levels of care for those without any other means for healthcare or survival.

Bush’s words above could not be more blatantly rhetorical and disgracefully at odds with his actions. Realistically his interpretation of these words can only mean that communities should literally care for their own, by themselves, as in you or I should pay for our sick, poor neighbor’s medical care out of our own pockets. He throws around freedom like a slogan for Wal-Mart, pure marketing, of no real value or meaning.

Nearly any family in the declining ranks of the middle class will tell you financially they do not feel stronger. Just listen to the radio. The most common advertisement you hear today is for debt reduction services. Is not one of the most basic of freedoms and American values freedom from financial insecurity?

Bush’s words are an affront to a government based on Christian values. Those who value these values to their cores should simply be disgusted at the vacuous way in which uses freedom and values as rhetorical phrases while his actions throw out the practice of these values from government policy on a daily basis.

Bush’s fallacious association of his faith as a core of his administration is an outrage. It makes this American sick to hear it.

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