Travellinguist's Musings

Totally $^%%^#ed up Budget.

So Republicans... not all of them, but too many of them (Cheers to Gordon Smith and others who had the courage to stand for principles above party) have outlined a budget plan which will cut Medicaid spending and endorsed this as a guideline for their budget process.
What a disgrace! The same week they oppose medicaid they enthusiastically support pouring another $80 billion down the bloody and oily Iraq hole. They have decided that older Americans and the working poor should help to insure that $80 billion doesn't increase our deficit too much, so that our wealthiest corporate elite can continue earning record profits despite a sagging economy. The deficit will increase nonetheless but that is besides the point, because clearly the Republicans who voted for this believe that the only money worth spending is for the destruction and crippling of human life in Iraq and not for the preservation, healing and maintenance of human life in the United States. This supposedly "Christian" party has abandoned all pretense to basic human values in their pursuit of money and wealth for their elite members. Incidentally, the Congressional health insurance program, rated among the best if not THE best in the United States will suffer no such cuts despite the fact that the average member of Congress is a millionaire with more than enough money to purchase HIS own health care independent of what we taxpayers provide to them as part of their "benefit."
They are pushing us to the limit and if poor Americans in the Midwest, South and West (those Red Staters- the ones who are so fond of their guns) ever open their eyes and figure out how often they are screwed and manipulated by a rich, amoral power elite, blood will run in the streets. I am just thankful I live in the Northeast where we don't love our guns nearly as much and where we prefer to negotiate our problems and avoid warfare as much as possible. A reckoning is coming and it is neither our fault nor will it be our problem. We know where our values lie and we refuse to be bamboozled by a degenerate power elite who will change the rules to protect their corrupt leader, declare the opposition "opponents of faith," all while placing unending, bloody warfare above human health care and referring to themselves as a "Party of Life."
Good luck Pro-war, anti-health Republicans! What goes around comes around.

posted by travellinguist @ 11:13 AM