Separating the Goats From the Sheep

There was a major brew-ha-ha this weekend over a video that surfaced on Mother Jones of Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a May 17^th fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida,  stating that, “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it." He also stated that his role as President would be "not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

May I be so bold as to remind Mr. Romney that by sending jobs overseas and giving tax breaks to companies that did so the Government is responsible for many of that 47 percent of people loosing their jobs? That once those jobs were gone it became harder and harder to find new ones? That as a result, homes were foreclosed upon, people were put out in the streets? These people ARE the responsibility of the government that put them in these precarious situations.

Look, I’m no bleeding heart for those who abuse the system, and do anything they can to stay on Welfare or Disability when they really don’t deserve it. But there are many…MANY…who do deserve it because Republican votes have done away with jobs that they thought were safe, and in so doing placed middleclass families in to the lower-middle and lower-classes. (And YES, there is a class system in America. And the only class the Republicans care about is the Upper Class.)

As the Republican Party, and I’m sure Mr. Romney, consider themselves such good, Christian folks, and are quick to quote the Bible in their rhetoric, allow me to quote the Bible back at them:

 

35‘For I was hungry, and you gave Me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; 36 naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’ 37“Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? 38‘And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? 39‘When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40“The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.”

In case the Republicans or Mr. Romney can’t remember where this comes from in the Bible it is Matthew 25: 35-40, right after the part that goes:

“All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.”

 

With all due respect, I think Mr. Romney and his party will be grouped with the goats.