4.10.2012
A budget that protects and indeed increases the wealth of the already wealthy at the expense of everyone else violates Prov. 22:16: “He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich — both come to poverty.”
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky, quoted in Joel McDermon, “Answers to a liberal Congresswoman’s Bible Questions," at http://americanvision.org/5660/answers-to-a-liberal-congresswomans-bible-questions/, (accessed 4/9/12).
