Let's Make Cuts...but not for the Rich
“Their budget ... actually would make the deficit worse,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “That’s fiscally irresponsible at any time, but especially when we should be saving to prepare for the baby boomers’ retirement.” Senator Harry Reid on the Republican planned cuts for Medicare, Medicaid and Farm Subsidies
Sometimes it is more obvious than other times that people in the Red States either can't or don't read or don't care about the politicians who put bamboo shoots under their fingernails every chance they can. But the current proposals that passed the Senate on Thursday is the most ill-conceived budget reduction that has been seen in 25 years in Washington and more ink will be used to discuss how disgusting a nude ad in a Catholic magazine is than the continued attacks on the American people (sans the rich).
The Republicans are faced with 2 possibilities for budget deficit reduction. The first is to cut current discretionary programs since we must continue to pay and pay and pay for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, support the "poor" corporate executives in oil companies who continue to make record profits and give drug companies massive subsidies for drugs that medicare pays for on "our" behalf. Since that is not acceptable to the oil or drug companies and in Iraq we must "complete the mission" of bringing democracy to a country where daily 2-10 Americans die for the privelege of serving, then the second choice is to cut domestic spending.
The problem with that approach is that all that is in the budget (besides $230 million for a bridge in Alaska that I'd like to sell ya!) are education, highways, and the social security-medicare-medicaid programs that benefit, that's right....you and me, the middle class. So the Republicans (the ones with the big friends in all the right rich places) cut those benefits.
Oh, roll back tax cuts on the rich? Hehehe. You haven't been listening. The politicians need their contributions so that they can continue to give tax breaks right back to the ones who pay for their campaigns. It's a wonderful ride they take us on...round and round from Washington to Wal-Mart and back, contributions buy the seats, the seats protect the corporations, the corporations and their executives get rich.
So the Senate passes cuts to programs that benefit you and me. That's shared pain, isn't it? After all, so many in the government sent their kids to Iraq, right? So many of them will also suffer from cuts in the programs they passed, right? No, you say, Representatives and Senators have different government programs than you or me?
The question is why we allow these people to fool us into thinking they "know what is best for our country?" What they know is how to feed their egos and wallets from the folks eating caviar, not cornflakes.
Our only power, our only chance is to vote against them when we get the chance. But the re-election rate is over 90%.
It's pretty obvious it's more fun to look at an ad with a nude in the shower than keep track of your Congressman and Senators.
But which is really the issue....?
Sometimes it is more obvious than other times that people in the Red States either can't or don't read or don't care about the politicians who put bamboo shoots under their fingernails every chance they can. But the current proposals that passed the Senate on Thursday is the most ill-conceived budget reduction that has been seen in 25 years in Washington and more ink will be used to discuss how disgusting a nude ad in a Catholic magazine is than the continued attacks on the American people (sans the rich).
The Republicans are faced with 2 possibilities for budget deficit reduction. The first is to cut current discretionary programs since we must continue to pay and pay and pay for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, support the "poor" corporate executives in oil companies who continue to make record profits and give drug companies massive subsidies for drugs that medicare pays for on "our" behalf. Since that is not acceptable to the oil or drug companies and in Iraq we must "complete the mission" of bringing democracy to a country where daily 2-10 Americans die for the privelege of serving, then the second choice is to cut domestic spending.
The problem with that approach is that all that is in the budget (besides $230 million for a bridge in Alaska that I'd like to sell ya!) are education, highways, and the social security-medicare-medicaid programs that benefit, that's right....you and me, the middle class. So the Republicans (the ones with the big friends in all the right rich places) cut those benefits.
Oh, roll back tax cuts on the rich? Hehehe. You haven't been listening. The politicians need their contributions so that they can continue to give tax breaks right back to the ones who pay for their campaigns. It's a wonderful ride they take us on...round and round from Washington to Wal-Mart and back, contributions buy the seats, the seats protect the corporations, the corporations and their executives get rich.
So the Senate passes cuts to programs that benefit you and me. That's shared pain, isn't it? After all, so many in the government sent their kids to Iraq, right? So many of them will also suffer from cuts in the programs they passed, right? No, you say, Representatives and Senators have different government programs than you or me?
The question is why we allow these people to fool us into thinking they "know what is best for our country?" What they know is how to feed their egos and wallets from the folks eating caviar, not cornflakes.
Our only power, our only chance is to vote against them when we get the chance. But the re-election rate is over 90%.
It's pretty obvious it's more fun to look at an ad with a nude in the shower than keep track of your Congressman and Senators.
But which is really the issue....?
posted by Cris Peters at 7:26 PM
1 Comments:
Bravo Well said.
also, Except for Greta Van Susteren and Bill O'Reilly
FoX “news” is infuriatingly dull and a national aesthetic disaster.
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