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Originally Posted by filtherton
Who was the last president who made the poor and the sick their highest priority?
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They were a pretty high priority to Lyndon Johnson - pretty much made up our armed forces in V-nam... Oh, you meant helping them.
I'm going to take a stab at this. How about because agree or disagree with it, the large majority of your populace considers themselves Christian, and that the presence of what they consider to be the highest power intertwined into government gives them confidence in the the handling of affairs. Ruling over people takes religion or fear, both when possible. A nation with no religious base, real or perceived, is prone to uprising and requires a much heavier hand to control. This leads to less individual freedoms, less satisfaction in daily life, and then we start affecting productivity which hits us in the pocketbook as a country. Did kings really believe that they were born from a "divine" family line or did it just make everyone a little more comfortable to buy into the whole hand of God thing?
If we thought that God hadn't given G.W.B. a sign that he was to run for president, I know that my confidence would be shaken a bit...