Make no mistake...when assholes like Paul Ryan blabber on about "austerity" what they are really talking about is making the less fortunate pay so that the corporate welfare gravy train can continue rolling along. How else can you possibly explain this report from Bloomberg:
A U.S. House panel voted to cut spending on food stamps, health insurance and other aid for the poor to avoid planned cuts in defense spending.It's an election year, and yet these fuckers apparently believe that they will not suffer at the polls from such a blatant attempt to keep enriching
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The spending reductions are triggered by a so-called supercommittee’s failure last year to come up with a plan to reduce the government’s $1.2 trillion budget deficit. About $55 billion would be subtracted from the Pentagon budget, with an equal amount from non-defense programs.
Also yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee unveiled plans to boost defense spending next year by $1 billion to $519 billion, with an additional $88.5 billion for the war in Afghanistan.
The Budget Committee’s measure would cut off food stamps to 1.8 million Americans, according to the Congressional Budget Office, while reducing assistance to millions more. About 280,000 children would no longer be automatically eligible for free school lunches because they receive food stamps, according to CBO.
The bill would give states more ability to pare their Medicaid rolls and would end social services block grants, which fund programs such as Meals on Wheels for senior citizens. The bill would tighten rules on who may claim child-care tax credits in an effort to prevent aid from going to illegal immigrants.
From my You Tube channel: "Ain't this new world a shame...I can't stop thinking that it doesn't have to be this way"
Simply put, these people are not putting their political futures in jeopardy by not helping the majority, quite the opposite in fact.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fundamental problem with US politics.
A Republic that's easily influenced by corporate and banking interests becomes completely deaf to voters.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see Ryan's stupid smug face I wanna take a bit of steel re-bar to it. He is such a terrible fucking person, Randroid born and bred.
ReplyDeleteThey won't suffer at the polls because this is nothing but a talking point to people who are already going to vote for them. Crap like this will never get past the Senate (even if they could use reconciliation, I don't think they have 51 Republican senators suicidal enough to vote for this). If Obama wins, he would veto it. If Romney wins, he would probably ignore it, if not actively try to kill it to make it go away.
ReplyDeleteBasically, a non-event with an increasingly crazy Republican House dutifully acting out their part in an empire in decline.
Nothing to see here, move along....
... and the beat rolls on...