Sisters Speak Out. Catholic Bishops silent but their actions speak so loud that we don't need to hear from them.
Aug 8, 2012 | By ThinkProgress War Room
"For the past two days Mitt Romney and his campaign have busied themselves with their latest false attack against the president — the allegation that President Obama “gutted” the 1996 welfare reform by giving states additional flexibility in how they run their programs. In Romney’s telling, welfare recipients now can just sit back and collect checks forever without even having to try and find a job. This charge is of course completely false, hypocritical (Romney himself asked for even greater flexibility back in 2005), and full of racial overtones.
President Clinton slammed Romney, calling the attack “disappointing” and “not true.” Fact checkers gave it four pinocchios and said it was a “pants on fire” lie. Reporters called it “mind-boggling” and “a huge and shameless deception,” among many other things.
Now an even more powerful messenger is speaking out: nuns. The same group of nuns who recently toured the country to denounce the Romney-Ryan budget’s deep cuts to programs for those most in need is now calling out Romney:
“Recent advertisements and statements from the campaign of Governor Romney demonize families in poverty and reflect woeful ignorance about the challenges faced by tens of millions of American families in these tough economic times,” stated Sister Simone Campbell. “We are all God’s children and equal in God’s eyes. Efforts to divide us by class or score political points at the expense of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters reveal the worst side of our country’s politics.”
Romney has of course proposed massive tax cuts for the rich that would likely come at the expense of lower- and middle-class families, which would see higher taxes or significant cuts to the programs they depend on — or both.
Those policies, Campbell told ThinkProgress, show that Romney “doesn’t have clue” about the struggles the poor face. “The fact is, his policies shift wealth to the upper class,” she said. “Yes, it hurts the middle class, but it devastates those at the margins of our society.”
The only way a middle class person could vote for Romney is to hate Obama so much that they would put a super-rich man in charge of giving even more benefits to his mega rich cohorts.
"For the past two days Mitt Romney and his campaign have busied themselves with their latest false attack against the president — the allegation that President Obama “gutted” the 1996 welfare reform by giving states additional flexibility in how they run their programs. In Romney’s telling, welfare recipients now can just sit back and collect checks forever without even having to try and find a job. This charge is of course completely false, hypocritical (Romney himself asked for even greater flexibility back in 2005), and full of racial overtones.
President Clinton slammed Romney, calling the attack “disappointing” and “not true.” Fact checkers gave it four pinocchios and said it was a “pants on fire” lie. Reporters called it “mind-boggling” and “a huge and shameless deception,” among many other things.
Now an even more powerful messenger is speaking out: nuns. The same group of nuns who recently toured the country to denounce the Romney-Ryan budget’s deep cuts to programs for those most in need is now calling out Romney:
“Recent advertisements and statements from the campaign of Governor Romney demonize families in poverty and reflect woeful ignorance about the challenges faced by tens of millions of American families in these tough economic times,” stated Sister Simone Campbell. “We are all God’s children and equal in God’s eyes. Efforts to divide us by class or score political points at the expense of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters reveal the worst side of our country’s politics.”
Romney has of course proposed massive tax cuts for the rich that would likely come at the expense of lower- and middle-class families, which would see higher taxes or significant cuts to the programs they depend on — or both.
Those policies, Campbell told ThinkProgress, show that Romney “doesn’t have clue” about the struggles the poor face. “The fact is, his policies shift wealth to the upper class,” she said. “Yes, it hurts the middle class, but it devastates those at the margins of our society.”
The only way a middle class person could vote for Romney is to hate Obama so much that they would put a super-rich man in charge of giving even more benefits to his mega rich cohorts.
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