The Republican Road to Hell

In Paul Ryan’s budget plan, Republicans are promising a road to prosperity, but that promise is a lie.  Their plan is a road to hell.  It will increase the deficit by trillions of dollars and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.  It contains more tax cuts for the rich and criminal corporations while gutting services to poor and middle class Americans.  Except for the rich, if they succeed in implementing this plan, poor and middle class Americans will lose quality of life, but disabled and elder Americans will lose length of life as well.  That is the RepubliCare death benefit: be rich or die.

Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva wrote an excellent article on this.

After months of symbolic legislation aimed at pleasing its political base, the House Republican majority Tuesday unveiled its plan for America’s future. Sadly – but not surprisingly – it looks a lot like the standard right-wing schemes that reward Wall Street while kicking more Americans out of the middle class.

In fact, this budget that punishes working families, while putting more of our tax dollars in the pockets of the rich, is nothing more than a Republican Roadmap to Ruin

We know what happened during the 2000s — when Republicans failed to protect U.S. consumers, let Wall Street police itself and rigged the tax code in favor of a fortunate few. The Great Recession isn’t a coincidence — it’s cause and effect.

What do we see after years of corporate handouts at the expense of working families? Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and can’t find new ones. Millions of Americans have been kicked out of their homes. Americans who work hard every day and play by the rules can’t afford to send their kids to college.

We see a generation of Americans reaching for the American dream but blocked by the growing wall between working families and wealthy elites.

The Republican budget is not a blueprint for an economy that lifts up Americans who work for a living. For working Americans, it’s a proven Roadmap to Ruin.

As conceived by House Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), this 2012 budget gouges away some of the most crucial protections and promises that America has made to its people.

The Ryan budget puts yet another brick in the wall between the haves and have-nots. It takes guaranteed health benefits from disabled and low income Americans rather than lowering health care costs. It destroys Medicare as we know it, by turning America’s promise of care for our seniors into “health vouchers” that leave our parents and grandparents at the mercy of insurance companies, who put profits before patients.

The Ryan roadmap blocks inroads to prosperity like Pell Grants, which make it possible for middle class families to afford college. It strips away training for workers, who want to compete for the jobs of the future. Meanwhile, it creates more tax loopholes for corporations who ship jobs overseas. [emphasis added]

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What they forgot to mention is that it also lowers the top marginal tax rate from 35% to 25%, meaning that billionaires will pay the same tax rate as someone making $75,000.

Rachel Maddow talks about how Republicans are trying to deceive voter by changing their spin tactics.

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Now, I have problems with the Democratic Party just like most of you.  The Democratic Party id a fetid swamp that needs to be drained.  I’m all for doing whatever it takes to drain it, but not yet.  There is no safe way to drain the swamp until we have eliminated those bloodthirsty Republican alligators.