All it took was for over 539,000 people to sign an international statement, 300 of the US’s top legal scholars taking a public stand, the forced resignation of a US State Department spokesperson, our organizers directly confronting President Obama, and of course our ongoing efforts internationally. -Jeff Paterson of Courage to Resist, on how we… Continue reading All It Took
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“If the ruling class were as worried about the deficit as it claims to be, it would accept that the wealthiest people in society have a duty to pony up more for the very government whose police power and military protect them, their property and their wealth.”
-E.J. Dionne, in his column today
“Every day we’re spending more in Libya than everything we’d like to keep in the budget. That’s turning around the Biblical imperatives and beating your plowshares into swords. You’re not going to solve the deficit with these programs. This is just mean. This is not believing the government should help poor people as a principle.”
-Jim Wallis, who is fasting to protest budget cuts