The Hill News

Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe that “a budget is moral document,” according to a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. In a recent exchange of letters, Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Congressman Paul Ryan both affirmed this basic principle as well. What this means for all those seeking election in 2012 is that when voters listen to the budget debate in Washington D.C., they don’t just hear a tug of war over dollars and cents but a discussion of our national character. Who gets kept in and who gets left out matters more clearly reveals our moral priorities than does any speech or campaign commercial.

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