Wednesday, February 12, 2014

PUNISH OR AMELIORATE POVERTY

Never has the Republican strategy been clearer. The House of Representatives approved an increase in a debt ceiling without getting something from the Democrats in return and they are madder than h___. What they really mean is that they had a chance of getting their kicks by hurting the working poor and missed it. Everyone knows the standard conservative approach to politics; create a problem, then complain loudly and bitterly about it, and then offer to solve the problem for a price. This time they got nothing.

As Joe Scarborough (MSNBC) explains almost every morning, he is a “small government conservative” and Democrats are wasteful big government spenders. Does he really think we don’t know what is going on? Under Republicans, the government becomes larger and spending increases; this is a historically provable truth. It got so bad under George W. Bush that even some Republicans were complaining. Joe and people like him will never tell you that Democratic spending is for the welfare of the people and that Republican spending is for corporation welfare and not for a balanced budget. He will not say that that corporate tax cuts are directly responsible for the budget short fall while Republicans rub it in with increase corporate farm and oil companies subsides. Worst of all, he will not say that the Iraqi war was fought on borrowed money from China that congress never approved or say that many corporation do not pay taxes or that their lobbyist salaries are tax deductable.

Republicans wanted to use the debt crises they created to cut the benefits of workers. They blame it on Obamacare, which actually saves money and creates job, and they want to blame it on social security that the workers who collect it pay for what the collect. They want to blame it on food stamps that feed the poor created by a non-livable minimum wage. Do you think Joe doesn’t knows that government welfare is massively subsidizing companies who pay low wages?


The working poor are down as income disparity clearly shows and in the republican mind these people deserve to have the successful punish them for not being successful as well. Republicans are angry, but why? Are they angry for not using that chance to kick poor people they are down; make me wonder.

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