Obama links economic policies with faith

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Obama links economic policies with faith

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he relies on his faith and values to guide his work on the nation's most urgent problems, including the economy.

Obama says that as a Christian, he believes in the teaching that to whom much is given, much is required.

He says that belief, and his reliance on economic good sense, is behind his policies — including his call for the wealthy to pay more taxes.
 
Obama urges other leaders to not abandon their values or "the moral glue" that has guided the nation for centuries.

Obama was speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-links-economic-policies-faith-144101829.html

Luke 12
 42 And the Lord replied, “A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. 43 If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. 44 I tell you the truth, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns. 45 But what if the servant thinks, ‘My master won’t be back for a while,’ and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk? 46 The master will return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant in pieces and banish him with the unfaithful.

 47 “And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn’t prepared and doesn’t carry out those instructions, will be severely punished. 48 But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.

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Good thing "Thou shall not bullshit" isn't a Commandment.

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"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

"Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

"And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had."

"No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had."

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There is not necessarily any link between the tenets of a particular faith and what makes the best economic policy, but anything that he can do to try to sway those on the right is worth trying, I suppose.

I would call it the far right, but it seems to be a virus that is spreading through more and more of the Republican Party these days.  They seem to have infused economics with the same kind of dogma that once was reserved for their actual spiritual faith.

Both David Stockman and Bruce Bartlett, from the Reagan Administration, have come out and said that those policies are not the correct ones for today's economic times.  David Stockman has said that Reagan's economic policies have become a kind of dogma for the right, and Bruce Bartlett has pointed out that our current economic situation is nothing like that of the early 80s, and he has in fact acknowledged that the biggest problem right now is the lack of demand, not the lack of supply.