Fired Feds: "You claim to be a Christian, but..."

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

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News, Christianity, Politics, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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There understandably is a lot of anxiety among many federal employees. But that anxiety can quickly turn into emotional blackmail, like an E-mail I received from a listener that included the line, "You claim to be a Christian, but..." Oof. How should we, as Americans, and as Christians, work together to get a more efficient government? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Politics by Faith.
0:07.3	Thanks for being here.
0:08.8	The firing of federal workers is a tricky spot to be working through right now.
0:15.7	At least it has been on the radio this last week.
0:19.6	I start with compassion for anyone that's ever fired from a job.
0:25.1	That's not fun.
0:28.9	And then we hear these federal workers who get fired,
0:31.1	and my first place is compassion.
0:33.2	And then we find out that some of these jobs are ridiculous.
0:37.0	And people who receive grants and all the rest, like bad.
0:40.4	Like not, no, no good.
0:42.0	Definitely fired.
0:43.0	You go do something else.
0:44.7	What you're doing is not deserving of taxpayer money at all.
0:48.3	So we'll highlight some of those stories.
0:50.9	And then someone will call in.
0:51.9	I'm a serious XM show.
0:53.0	Someone will call in and be very defensive saying that I'm a serious XM show someone to call in and be very defensive
0:55.4	saying that I'm not showing enough compassion okay now I'm not talking about you you person who does
1:06.8	essential and important and valuable work according to you I can only take your word for it.
1:11.0	And I agree with you.
1:11.7	You're great.
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