‘We’re taking away health care from kids and then burdening them with the debt. We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse, this body of stealing from the poor in order to give to the rich. This massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top. This is socialism for the rich’
By Bob Unruh
Raphael Warnock was a preacher at an Atlanta church before he was elected to the United States Senate.
And he still faces controversies over the money, tens of thousands of dollars, he continues to take from the congregation each year, and the lavish, luxury home, owned by the church, that he occupies.
In fact, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust has asked the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to investigate what “appears” to be his violation of Senate ethics rules by accepting the “lavish” housing scheme and then refusing to report it on his financial disclosures.
Notwithstanding his own behavior, the senator now is insisting that Christians abide by his beliefs about the Bible.
He recently delivered a lengthy diatribe against Republicans, accusing them of being Robin Hood in reverse and taking from kids to give to the wealthy.
“We’re taking away health care from kids and then burdening them with the debt,” Warnock said. “We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse, this body of stealing from the poor in order to give to the rich. This massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top. This is socialism for the rich.”
A report at RedState explained, “The Democrat senator and reverend, then, took a swipe at the opposition, who are of faith, claiming they weren’t reading the same book as he was when he tried to claim Scripture supports the use of the government to aid the poor.”
He continued, “But, if I’m honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, ‘Are we reading the same book?’ The book I know says I was hungry, and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison, and you visited me; I was a stranger, and you welcomed me…. The book that I love says learn to do good, seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and the needy.”
He was addressing GOP plans for legislation that would implement some of President Donald Trump’s goals, including cutting social agenda spending by the government, and more.