Is it "Christian" to not help poor children?

Question

President Bush just vetoed a bill to help poor children.
Ezekiel 16:49
Behold this was the sin of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness... and she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Answer 1

hey stone-dont really think that using sodom was the best example for this-if you remember what is god supposed to have done to them for not feeding the babies-he killed them all even the babies---i dont think i really want someone like that protecting or standing up for my children----enjoy the day

Answer 2

While I am not for Bush vetoing this bill, the bill needs to be rewritten. I believe it states that insurance will cover 'children' up to age 25 and those who make up to $80,000 a year.
With that being said, children should be modified to age 18 or 19, and in order to serve the poor, the income should be modified to $30 or 35, 000 dollars, depending on how many children one has.
So I believe he had every right to veto this bill. Who is poor at $80,000 a year?

Answer 3

It is just not right to deny anyone of medical coverage. All religion set aside, The United States has a very corrupt healthcare system. With sky high insurance rates, high premiums, and the exemption of preexisting conditions, the system is designed to do one thing and one thing only...Create wealth...In a person's lifetime at my current insurance rate, you would spend $81,600 or $2,040 a year just to cover yourself on medical coverage. The average person goes to the doctor let's say 2 times a year, that is 1,020 per office visit. How many elective surgeries costing anywhere near $81,000 does the average person have in a lifetime? None. (I know there are few that are an acception to the rule, but that would not be considered average) Bush, Clinton, Politicians in general have been paid off to keep our system this way...It is time for a change.....Vote Obama 08!

Answer 4

I don't know when a family of four making $82,000 dollars a year in the State of New York was considered impoverished. This bill drafted by Ted Kennedy and fostered by Hillary Clinton, is just another attempt to federalize health care. I am a strong Christian who makes no where near the 300% poverty level that the Democrats are trying to push through congress, however I work, and I provide private health care insurance for my children. Leave the states to take care of the Children that are truly impoverished and keep the federal government out of it. In almost 8 years this is only Bush's fourth veto , leaving the Democrats with many options, to draft a more fiscally responsible bill.

This makes me giggle- With the thumbs down that this answer received it is amazing that people disagree with fact. Maybe I offended someone by saying they are not impoverished at $82,000.00 a year. LOL, you know for all intents and purposes I should vote democrat, they are trying to push me onto the welfare rolls. Maybe, I'll jump the fence in 08, nah....

Answer 5

You are asking a loaded question. What he vetoed may have been more or less than what was available for that program. It is unfair to accuse President Bush of being un-Christian because he did not vote or do something that we thought he should have. Unless you the bill inside and out, and know WHY he vetoed the bill, please don't go around accusing him of being un-Christian-like.

Answer 6

Maybe because it is not in the best interest of Americans. How were they going to pay for this "free" health care? By increasing the cigarette tax. It has been shown that the parents of these poor children are the most likely ones to be smoking. So you want to take more money away from the already poor to give shoddy health care when IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENTS JOB TO GIVE HANDOUTS.

Answer 7

I'm sure that was the primary reason he vetoed the bill, to not help poor children.

Answer 8

Of course it is not Christian. But I've never been entirely certain the President is a Christian.... I never pictured Jesus wearing a flight suit anyway, or advocating militaristic nationalism.

"If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well," but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?" (James 2:15-16)

Answer 9

So I'm going to stop donating to poor children, children in need, because he vetoed a bill? Don't think so.

Answer 10

Christianity like Bush's and Coulter's is mefirstism of pampered brats. By some of the answers here, it's apparently contagious.