Bush Budget Lacks Moral Vision

Jim Wallis at Sojourners and author of God's Politics offers this vision as a platform with which the Progressives can counter the charge that they are lacking in values:

"Budgets are moral documents that reflect the values and priorities of a
family, church, organization, city, state or nation. They tell us what is most
important and valued to those making the budget.The biblical prophets frequently
spoke to rulers and kings. They spoke to 'the nations,' and it was the powerful
that were most often the target audience. Those in charge of things are the ones
called to greatest accountability.

And the prophets usually spoke for the dispossessed, widows and orphans
(read: poor single moms), the hungry, the homeless, the helpless, the least,
last and lost. They spoke to a nation's priorities."