You can educate yourself about the ” debt deal” and how it affects the most vunerable and learn how the faith community played a role in keeping it from being worse than it is.
View and listen to the recording of “What’s the Deal?” – an excellent webinar, offered by the Interreligious Working Group on Domestic Human Needs, which highlights the debt deal and its impact on low-income people. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
You may also download the PowerPoint slides that were presented in the webinar.
–Sandy Irving, Volunteer for Health Reform
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’ s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’ s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
— Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006