How Romney/Ryan Would Undermine Churches And Faith-Based Charities

[Tx4obama]

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Ryan has said local charities and churches should provide for needy communities instead of the federal government. But there is a flaw this plan: churches and faith-based charities, which offer roughly $50 billion worth of services a year to the poor and needy, often depend on government funds to operate. Catholic Charities, for example, is one of the largest charities in America, and gets over half of its operating budget from federal funds.

Yet the Romney/Ryan ticket appears undeterred by this reality. In fact, if Romney followed through on Ryan’s proposed budget and cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $169 billion, every single church in America would have to come up with an additional $50,000 simply to feed those in need. For many cash-strapped churches, this is an impossible task.

What’s more, the Romney/Ryan budget would likely overburden soup kitchens and food programs by cutting welfare, food stamps and agriculture subsidies by two trillion dollars over the next ten years. These cuts would leave millions of Americans – especially those most in need of assistance – without the means to feed and clothe themselves, and already-overburdened faith-based charities unable to provide for them.

So if congregations and charities can’t provide the care required and Ryan’s government refuses to help, who exactly is the “strong” tasked with stepping in for the “weak”? Ryan isn’t saying.

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/31/784691/how-romneyryan-would-undermine-churches-and-faith-based-charities/

[glinda]

1. ...or they are saying

they will shove religion down your throat 24/7.... forcing people to either act according to their interpretation of whatever Religion it is they are cobbling together or starve.

[Igel]

2. A slightly better alternative is to read "directly" into what was said.

More faith-based programs, not fewer.

That's the problem with this kind of inferencing. In the absence of a single clear, reasonable, fairly obvious implication, people infer freely as their assumptions lead them.