Pawlenty cuts

One Proposed Cut:
Reduce Children and Community Service Grants to counties by 25% the first year and 33% the second year for a loss of $16.9 million the first year and $22.3 the second. These grants fund child protection, children's mental health services, pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents and their children, adults who are vulnerable and in need of protection, people over age 60 who need help living independently, adults with mental illness, people with developmental disabilities, people with substance abuse issues, parents with incomes below 70% of state median income who need child care services for their children, and children and adolescents at risk of involvement with criminal activity.
Eliminate emergency general assistance.

So the poor, elderly, sick, mentally ill, disabled, and at risk youth can be cut to balance the budget.
They won’t write checks for his Presidential campaign so they don’t count.
If people can’t help themselves – screw ‘em – nice attitude.
His party wants to act like they are the party of Patriots and Christians – the only true Americans – not like us despicable liberals.
Well here is what the inscription on the Statue of Liberty says:

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

And I am no student of the Bible but there are many passages about feeding and clothing the poor/helpless/ill etc.

We all do better when we all do better – simple concept!!