text: Regarding:"The Republicans are not only taking aim at Catholic health care. Their proposed cuts in foreign aid will cripple the ability of organizations like Catholic Relief Services to continue their comprehensive development work around the globe. Catholic Charities will see its budgets slashed while the needs of those they serve only grow as a result of proposed cuts in essential anti-poverty programs like food stamps."
  - That this is happening is a shame.
  - However, the people of God pay for what the people of God want.
  - Catholics in principal do not depend on tax funded government subsidies to carry out its mission and ministries.
  - It behooves catholics to increase their donations to these organizations so that the government contributions become less important; if indeed Catholics want catholic hospitals, aid to struggling peoples throughout the world, assistance to the poor in the USA.