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As the fight about to where to cut spending in the 2012 budget looms on the horizon, members of Congress, mainly Republicans from the far right, have targeted entitlements as the main reason our debt is so high. Fiscal hawks believe that cutting social service programs like Planned Parenthood, food stamps, Head Start and Medicare can balance the budget. Rep. Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity is the Republicans’ talking point. But, in the end, who is going to prosper? This right wing fantasy about dealing with our national debt is nothing more than corporate thievery. I would call it “Robbing Hood” economics--stealing from the poor so the wealthy can go to Aspen. This philosophy of throwing the poor out on their fannies so they get a job seems to appeal to the Southern and Midwest conservatives. You would think that those who want to cut entitlements would also be for ending the tax loopholes and benefits that allow Wall Street to keep stealing money from America. But there seems to be lit

Writing James 1:2-4 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. One of my favorite books to read is the New Testament of the Bible. I do not read the bible because I am religious. I read it because the words that were said thousands of years ago still ring true today. You can open up any part of the bible and pinpoint that what is happening in your life today, someone thousands of years ago went through the same experience. Great men and women of the bible were not great people, David killed Uriah because of his lust for Bathsheba, Peter denied Jesus three times and still founded the Christian Church and Paul persecuted Christians before he was called on by god. The one story I identify with the most is the story of Nebuchadnezzar from the book of Daniel. He was a mighty king who d