The swing in power to the far right with the last election threatens our society. Let me count the ways.
GOP House proposes cuts that will cost 700,000 jobs while securing subsidies for oil companies and the lowest tax rates in history for the richest Americans in history.
GOP governors attempting to simply eliminate collective bargaining.
Despite rhetoric to be "all about jobs," GOP seems capable only of attacking poor people by cutting any program they can find that helps the poor, defunding environmental protection, and undermining women's health by passing every stupid hurdle they can think to interfere with a woman's right to choose.
They even want to cut funding to programs that protect our borders.
There are more, but these are the big ones.
Their mantra that "everyone must do their part" is equal parts infuriating and laughable. If everyone must do their part, then why didn't we raise taxes on the richest 2% of the population? And why don't we stop subsidizing the most successful industry in the world, oil?
There is no war on the rich in this country. There is a war on the poor and middle class. And the corporations are winning. I wonder if and when the Tea Partiers who wrought this catastrophe will realize they are being used to destroy a really great country.
I take solace in the impressive protests going on throughout the country. Perhaps our best hope is the overreaching we have seen from the right that results from arrogance. People still vote in this country. I suspect we are going to see some serious push-back.
For more of my POV on this problem, see this prior blog.
I wish I'd said that! If the misguided Tea Partiers would listen to something other than FOXNews and Rush Limbaugh they might have a clue as to what is REALLY going on in Congress. I think you're right -- we are going to see "some serious push-back"!
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post!