April 21, 2011
Dear Governor Perdue and Senator Berger:
I find it completely appalling that unemployment benefits to 37,000 individuals have been denied through the recent veto.
I find it more appalling that both Republicans and Democrats have turned this into a political issue rather than an issue facing real people. I read and listen to news stories that are nothing more than finger pointing similar to small children on the playground. Both parties have taken these 37,000 people and made them pawns in your disgusting political battle.
As a person of faith I can, with certainty, tell you that the Bible is clear against oppression of the poor. The books of Isaiah, Amos, Luke, James, and others speak to these issues. God will not be mocked, and the people of North Carolina are sick and tired of your political games where the people are the ones being hurt while you sit in your mansions of perceived glory.
Both of you (and your respective parties) will blame the other, but that is not the point, and I hope and pray you know that too. These 37,000 people are struggling to find a job…jobs that both parties have promised but have not delivered. These 37,000 people represent 37,000 families who now have to struggle and live in anxiety over how to pay the bills, how to afford food, and how to continue maintaining some sort of normalcy.
We all know the nation is in an economic crisis, but when you make the powerless the pawns in your political agendas, your actions speak of your true motives.
I hope and pray that the spirits of conflict and greed will leave you and your respective political parties and that you will soon come to a compromise that will not only provide unemployment funds for these people, but also create jobs to bring these people back to work.
Many Prayers,
Rev. Tom Hallberg
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