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Edited this magazine. that s one point. xavier university. five signatories from xavier. they have very left wing offerings curriculum. bill: professors who signed this are left wing professors. that s way of background. very left wing you made it in talking points. specifics on signatories though. the gospel says, saint paul said teach men how to fish, right? teach them how to fish. that s the way to lift people up. and john boehner is making a prudential judgment. this is not dogmatic. this is not a catholic dogma that you have to go the way dr. schneck thinks we should go, your previous guest. this is a policy question, right? and these guys who signed this letter, they could have written letters like this about core teachings of the church like with abortion or marriage or any of these issues that are beyond dispute for catholics. yet, we have catholics serving in our government who are living in open defiance of catholic teachings and, yet, they get off totally scott-free. ....
Catholic church in the way he edited this magazine. that s one point. xavier university. five signatories from xavier. they have very left wing offerings curriculum. bill: professors who signed this are left wing professors. that s way of background. very left wing you made it in talking points. specifics on signatories though. the gospel says, saint paul said teach men how to fish, right? teach them how to fish. that s the way to lift people up. and john boehner is making a prudential judgment. this is not dogmatic. this is not a catholic dogma that you have to go the way dr. schneck thinks we should go, your previous guest. this is a policy question, right? and these guys who signed this letter, they could have written letters like this about core teachings of the church like with abortion or marriage or any of these issues that are beyond dispute for catholics. yet, we have catholics serving in our government who are living in open defiance of catholic teachings and, yet, they g ....
But alone it s not enough. and the ancient position is that every society needs a government and in a capitalist system the government comes in and yokes the power of the market the greatness of the market to the common good. this budget cuts the top three income brackets. you will do very well under. this at the same time it cuts $500 million from a program that gives nutrition to pregnant women and infants so they can get off to a good start. bill, would you want that tax cut? dr. schneck, go ahead. i will give you the last word. you know what i would like, bill. i would like to ask speaker boehner to step up and endorse what the bishops have done this week. endorse the circle of protection. what the catholics are proposing along with the christian groups is that the government put a circle of protection around these programs for the most vulnerable of americans and it seems to me given everything that s happened, that this is the moral cause. bill: all right. i might point out ....
The poor. as you may know the factor gives millions of dollars to charitable causes. we have set up bill o reilly cot come to do that. we believe that those who have should help the have notes. to attack speaker boehner as unfit catholic is itself immoral because only god can make that judgment. the college professors protesting the speaker s commencement adjust at catholic u making a blatant political statement that has nothing to do with religion. that s the memo. joining us from dayton, ohio, dr. vincent miller university of dayton and dr. steven schneck who teaches catholic studies at catholic university. both professors signed the letter criticizing the speaker. where am i going wrong here? as you pointed out, bill, catholics are owe blinged to preference the poor as regards to public policy. if you look over the speaker s record it, seems to knee that in fact over the years he hasn t been preferencing the poor in regards to public policy. bill: can you give a specific ....
And we were a fair society back then. the great society programs were in place. they are just bringing it back down because it s gone wildly out of control. they are not eliminating these programs, dr. schneck. no. they are not eliminating these programs. but the country has been going through some hard times and this is a particularly egregious time to be making these kind of cuts. if i could go back to another point, i would like to point out from the perspective of catholic social teachings, the government has a responsibility to step in to preference the poor when, in fact, private measures aren t stuff to care for that. and i think that we re in a situation right now, bill. bill: i think the government is doing that see, look, short of socialism, which are you guys socialists? no. bill: would you buy dhoo that? we re not. bill: you are not socialists. we re catholic. bill: seizes private property to give it to other people. the capitalistic system we have in the un ....