President Bush Admits He is a New Dealer, May 1, 2005

While giving his prime time news conference this past week, President Bush divulged his unwavering commitment to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal political philosophy. In the midst of his praise of FDR's initiation of the Social Security system, purportedly developed as a "safety net" for the poorest of Americans, Bush revealed his commitment to the same agenda. The current president wants to revamp it to provide a "means adjusted" benefit. He wants recipients of SS benefits who are of lesser monetary means to receive a greater benefit compared to that which those of more resources would be eligible for.
This of course begs the question as to why such a system exists at all. Where is there any justification for a system of redistribution of wealth from one class to another? The obvious answer: there is none. Not unless the advocate ascribes to some form of coercion to do so. What religious/political systems advocate such things? Socialism, Fascism, and Communism.
Even more disturbing than all of this was the President's later comments on the nature of faith and political policy. Faith, he contended, is a private and personal matter which should not have any connection to political and public policy whatsoever. In other words, it simply does not matter what a person holds to in terms of absolute truth, so long as it does not interfere with the assumptions about the absolutes of contemporary political power and policy.
We would hope that this would give some of our Christian brethren a case of sever heatrburn, as it flies in the face of what the Bible teaches about the salt and light character of the Gospel. But, alas, many of our brethren seem to still believe that George W. is only a hair shy of the Second Coming. We would maintain that this, coupled with his public pandering to polytheism, would come closer to qualifying him as an anti-Christ.