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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Perry: Inequality is not a problem because
Bible predicts poor people.
Despite a significant rise in income inequality in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry (R) is arguing that its not something the state ought to be worried about.
We dont grapple with that here, Perry told The Washington Post in a recent interview, while acknowledging that the states richest residents have seen the greatest spike in earnings.
Biblically, the poor are always going to be with us in some form or fashion, he added, an apparent reference to Mark 14 . While Perry takes the message from the Bible to mean poverty is hopeless and therefore not worth grappling with, Jesus Christ was actually delivering a different lesson: For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good, the Son of God advises in the King James version of the Bible.
Yet the Biblical shoulder-shrugging is consistent with what Perry said while briefly running for president in 2011, when he proposed a tax plan that would have helped wealthy Americans while potentially raising the taxes of lower- and middle-income people.
I dont care about that, Perry said when asked by The New York Times about the effect on income inequality. If thats what comes, Ill take that criticism.
http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/12/rick-perry-inequality-not-a-problem-because-bible-predicts-poor-people/
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Presidential candidates should be required to undergo a psychiatric evaluation in order to be able to run for the Presidency.
These people are bat shit crazy and it boggles the mind that they are not thoroughly, publicly humiliated for their total idiocy.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)we do unto Him.
I guess Mr. Perry would like Jesus to be left alone, lying by the side of the road, starving to death? His reward will be in Heaven.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)blissful for the ignorant.
PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)call 'em like I see 'em PatrickforO.
lastlib
(23,234 posts)(...many things, but that's another matter....)
...that the rich will always be with us as well, and that they are WHY we have poor people!
Spazito
(50,339 posts)with or without his phony glasses. Oops is all he knows.
valerief
(53,235 posts)could fall for his shit.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I can't tell if he's talking to the minority of RW fundamentalist nutjobs, or if he is and thinks they are actually are a majority...or if he thinks that by framing it that way, the rest of the population will some how fall in line with the RW christian worldview.
Either way, the man is a certifiable loon.