Charlie Rangel to Unions: Let’s Squeeze as Much as We Can out of Obama’s Last Two Years
(CNS News) - Speaking at a breakfast sponsored by the Transport Workers Local 100 union in Harlem last week, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said that union organizing, raising the minimum wage, and unemployment compensation are “spiritual damn things” and he didn’t know “where the hell” spiritual leaders were on shelter and homelessness.
“The things we believe in are spiritual damn things. You can talk about the union organizing and raising the minimum wage and extensive unemployment compensation, but isn’t that the same thing as talking about someone that’s hungry, that’s thirsty, that’s naked, that’s in prison. All of these things – I’m not preaching – are things that people should be involved in and helping the unions make this a better country,” he said.
“Now I don’t know where the hell the spiritual leaders are going to be, but I haven’t heard their voices when it comes to shelter. That has to be a part of Matthews 25th in terms of how do you treat the less of my brothers and sisters,” Rangel said.
Rangel was referring to the Bible verse Matthew 25:40, which says, “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
“I haven’t heard the church on homelessness, but I have to believe that God didn’t intend for some people to live in luxury and other people to live in squalor. I have to believe that there’s something that connects Americans like us with the Constitution,” he said.
He also told the union that in order for people to have jobs and disposable incomes “it seems to me that you have to go beyond the constitutional pursuit and have workers united to make certain that we get the benefits in order to make this country all that she can be.”
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