On Memorial Day Religious Right Radio Host Calls 'Every Government Job a Drain on the Economy'
Instead of honoring our nation's fallen, Bryan Fischer says all government jobs, which includes our military forces as well, are "a drain" on America.
by DAVID BADASH
May 30, 2016 1:46 PM
Bryan Fischer, once the "Issue Analyst" for the American Family Association, now just their AFA radio host, just posted this horrifically insensitive tweet, saying "US govt employs almost as many as Fortune 500 companies COMBINED. EVERY govt job a drain on economy."
I don't want to politicize our nation's fallen, ever, certainly, especially, not today. I will honor them instead by saying I believe our government is all of us. It is "We the People." And those who chose to serve their country, their fellow citizens, and give their lives to do so deserve better than being called a drain on the economy. That includes the families they've left behind, who receive the gratitude of the nation, but far too little in government benefits.
President Barack Obama today asked Americans to "serve others, and contribute to the causes they believed in."
In his speech at Arlington National Cemetery this morning, President Obama, our Commander in Chief, today also said, "every day, there are American families who pray for the sound of a familiar voice when the phone rings. For the sound of a loved one’s letter or email arriving. More than one million times in our history, it didn’t come. And instead, a car pulled up to the house. And there was a knock on the front door. And the sounds of Taps floated through a cemetery’s trees."
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