Jack Danforth

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296 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 10 Jan

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Well, they're not being fixed.

And they're not being fixed because Congress doesn't want to take controversial positions.

And therefore, what they do is they create a Simpson-Bowles Commission.

Or 31 years ago, it was the Carrie Danforth Commission, the same sort of thing.

What do we do about the entitlements program, about the pending insolvency of Social Security and Medicare?

So let's just create a commission so that Congress can avoid doing what it should be doing, which is legislating.

Yeah, so politically, it's easy to do nothing and just leave it to somebody else.

And that's kicking the can down the road.

I think this is a very important challenge.

And it's something that we, that is faithful people,

should be thinking about in a practical way.

Okay, we think that the country is broken, meaning not just the politics, personal relations, families are broken over politics.

people the Thanksgiving dinner problem, okay?

That people just don't they don't speak, I won't speak to my brother about something because my brother is Maga and I'm progressive or whatever.

We can't let politics do that to us.

So let's say that we want to be healers.

Let's say that we believe

that if we're faithful people, our religion should be something more about sort of the salvation of our own souls.

Our religion should be about a ministry of St.

Paul called it a ministry of reconciliation to the world.

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