false values

Since USA spends 400 billion dollars on the Pentagon and the no other country in the world spends more than 7 billion, I am seriously puzzled at why our President preaches fear all the time.

It is clearly not war that need make us afraid but terrorism, which will never be ended by war. Just like the pirates of old, or crime in the streets, what is needed is police action and good detectives!

And a serious program to eliminate oppressive poverty. Instead, our government is excusing the rich from contributing to the common good, is pouring more and more into bombs, and leaving 45 million poeple in our country without health care.

These are obviously false values.

True values are these - feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the sick and the imprisoned bury the dead. (Mt 25)