Whenever Democrats try to protect the poor and middle classes from the ravages of Republican welfare for the rich, Republicans accuse them of class warfare. Class warfare does in fact exist. It has gone on for over thirty years. Republicans started it. Republicans continue it, and because Republicans have been on offense throughout, Republicans have been winning it. Now to protect the manner in which the tax code favors the rich, Republicans intend to gut the safety net again.
House Republicans announced plans to cut funding for Pell college tuition grants, NPR and other Democratic priorities, setting up another contentious round of negotiations on the federal budget.
The House Appropriations Committee today called for eliminating more than 30 education programs, including President Barack Obama’s "Race to the Top" initiative. The panel proposed slashing the Department of Labor’s budget by one-fifth, slicing funds for the National Labor Relations Board by 17 percent and barring funds to implement Obama’s health-care overhaul. It would also withhold funding for Planned Parenthood unless it says it will stop providing abortions.
The provisions are included in a $153.4 billion measure needed to fund the departments of Health and Human Services, Education and Labor for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The Republicans’ plan would amount to $4 billion cut or about 2.5 percent less than this year. The committee estimated the plan provides 15 percent less than the administration sought in its February budget request… [emphasis added]
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Keith Olbermann provided much more detail with Maxine Waters on Countdown.
Waters is right. The Democratic Party needs to go into poor and working class communities and explain how their Republican legislators are not representing them. But it’s not just the party hierarchy. Explaining this is all our job. That’s why I keep saying and documenting, over and over again, that Republicans govern exclusively for the benefit of millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals. They do NOT represent YOU!
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What gets me is that the RepublicanTs have been waging “class warfare” on the middle class since the Reagan years and now they are protesting it.
Get a grip, you big babies!
I agree, Patty!
The Rushpubliscums are a death cult, and it is obvious that they fully intend to destroy us all. Sadly, the number of them who have been successful in politics means that there are a lot of apocalyptic cult members among us.
Very well put! Not so “jolly” Jolly!!
What Lee said.
I predict there will be a massive repudiation of Republicans, Tea Partiers, and their austerity measures next election, and it can’t come soon enough for me! Voters have become rightfully appalled with the obstruction and conservative overreach we’ve been seeing lately, and they will throw the bums out, hopefully for good!
I hope you’re right, Jack, but in a recent Gallup poll, the majority believe that Republicans are better at national security and managing the economy. Unbelievable! 🙄
And that is why the WTC was on their watch? While other attacks were foiled by the Obama government!
Sadly, when a lie isn repeated often enough, and the media do not challenge it, people tend to believe it.
We can only hope that the more they wage the destructive attacks against the very fiber of this country- people will see them as they are ; Instead of what the republican party once was– that is the honorable people who were Republicans– way back now– to Ike , Taft, even Goldwater–way way back– Not since the corporations put Reagan , Nancy , and their fortune telling advisers in power has their been a Repug not controlled by moneyed interests–
Gol durned– That was a looong time ago– before the memory of many who read this article!!
Noah liked them. 😉
After they cut all of that, what’s left? Defense and the EPA, which I’m sure they are working on abhorrent. On the plus side, it won’t make it through the Senate and even if it does, Obama will veto this piece of shit. I HATE when they put messy bills like this with all kinds of weird shit that don’t correlate to each other. What does abortion have to do with Pell Grants? A big fat nothing.
TC, I love the changes that you made but I can’t get my emoticons to work and you know how I love my emoticons 🙂
I’ve had the same problem.
I’m sorry., Out of habit I use the text shortcuts and did not realize. I spent over an hour trying to fix it this evening, without success. I will look for another plugin that is compatible, and if I can’t find one, I’ll put up a page of shortcuts that you can open in a new tab and use as a reference.
What’s left? Corporate welfare!
You do your job admirably well TomCat! I fear that middle amerika votes in total ignorance,but arrogantly and obstinately so! If they actually do have a minimum of intelligence – their votes are suppressed! Middle Amerika is as scary to me as a vacation in gitmo!!
Lee, I agree that it is wrong to vote in ignorance, but it’s no worse than not voting.
The Corporate class is winning the class war because it’s not yet a declared war.
Hiya Vig!! 🙂
Hopefully that will start to change now that America is finding out about it.
From theSan FranciscoChronicle — “It would also withhold funding for Planned Parenthood unless it says it will stop providing abortions.
The provisions are included in a $153.4 billion measure needed to fund the departments of Health and Human Services, Education and Labor for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The Republicans’ plan would amount to $4 billion cut . . . estimated the plan provides 15 percent less than the administration sought in its February budget request.
“To protect critical programs and services that many Americans rely on — especially in this time of fiscal crisis — this bill takes decisive action to cut duplicative, inefficient and wasteful spending to help get these agency budgets onto sustainable financial footing,” said Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, in a statement.
I don’t think it is so much “duplicative, inefficient and wasteful spending” as much as it is take from the poor and middle class and give to the rich in the form of no tax hikes. And what more would you expect from a Republican cockroach?
I spend between 5 and 15 hours per week with seniors in a care facility just talking about various things I think might interest them. These people are anywhere from 82 -98 years old and definitely, despite the flaws, like the Canadian healthcare system. Many of them live on $15,000 or less per year and many have either hearing or sight problems so accessing television or radio news can be difficult. Last night, Saturday, we talked about US healthcare and the Republican plan to trim the population by cutting SS etc spending. It was these seniors who said “What are they trying to do, kill everyone?” It was easy enough for them to see through the Republican funeral dirge called the budget ‘discussion’. I talked about some of the costs that people mention, and these people are appalled. It’s time that Democrats take the discussion out to the people.
TomCat — “The Democratic Party needs to go into poor and working class communities and explain how their Republican legislators are not representing them. But it’s not just the party hierarchy. Explaining this is all our job.”
If you live in a Republican area, get together with seniors and low income people in your neighbourhood. Just talk like friends around a kitchen table. You don’t have to be a great orator, just someone who is committed to seeing justice for low income people and seniors.
Thanks Patty for your openness about medical premiums — I thought my friends were going to have heart attacks when I shared your story. They can’t even conceive of premiums and costs that high.
Get PCO Pied Piper for pest control! It’s time that the American people rid the nation of these cockroaches called the GOP in all their forms.
Thanks Lynn. The Republicans claim that “socialized medicine” will drive the cost up, but they are lying. There are two key differences between the US and the countries that have national health care plans. We spend more per capita on health care than any of them. All their citizens have health care, but fifty million of ours do not.