The Reckless Republican Rewrite

So you were sick and tired of those Democrats and voted them out of office. The Dems couldn't come up with jobs or job programs, they wouldn't exercise any control over the economy and spending was out of control with no real Dem plans to cut spending. So it seemed like a no-brainer to give the Republicans a try. Right?

The Republicans won House seats in an enormous victory. They won because they said during their campaigns they were going to get some jobs out there in the community. They haven't. But to be fair, they haven't been in office that long. So we have been fair. Now, let's be honest. The Republicans don't even have a plan to decrease unemployment.

Further, remember the Republicans who were going to cut the budget to shreds? Remember how even the Department of Defense was going to make cut backs? Well, that's not true anymore. Although it is true that a private assessment company looked at the Pentagon's books the other day and decided there was no way the U.S. could go on fighting the War in Afghanistan. It simply can't afford to. When the Russians figured that out many years ago, they left Afghanistan within a month.

You almost have to hand it to the Republicans to lie so well and for so long about what their plans were should they get into office. Although, I have to admit, it sometimes seems U.S. citizens would rather have the former C students running the country. Maybe they believe these idiots can't do any damage. Or maybe they just weren't paying attention during the Bush years. In any case a massive re-write of Republican plans has been underway for more than a month now.

Recently, these "Cost Cutting" Republicans announced their cuts; only $30 billion against a $14.1 trillion dollar deficit. Not even a speck. No real cost cutting, just politics as usual. The Republicans didn't go after any of the multi-billion dollar corporate tax crimes committed by the very people who finance the Republicans. They didn't go to Wall Street and try to regulate the money that is being sucked out of the country every day in what might be the greatest transfer of wealth in history.Once again, the people who finance them wouldn't like that, so they won't do it.

They didn't even go after the $1.5 billion the U.S.pays its corporations for all their advertising overseas. Remember. Republicans and Democrats just extended a tax break for the super wealthy. That tax cut will cost the U.S. $800 billion this year alone. And yet the Republican led House Appropriations Committee is so proud of the $30 billion they claim they will cut. Cost cutters? Do they believe we are brainless?

Being Republicans, just naturally they were mean-spirited cuts that were politically motivated as opposed to sound cuts that would make sense in this horrible economy. The Republicans did what they do best. Right out of the gate they went after poor women and children. The infirm are also on their list.

No, they aren't interested in going after cuts where the U.S. really needs them. Here we sit with a corrupt banking system, a rigged foreign trade program, a thieving health care system and a tax code that is strangling normal Americans around the country. If we tried to fix any one of those programs, we would save hundreds of billions. But the Republicans aren't going after these grifters.

Instead the Republicans decided to take their puny stab at the deficit by cutting a few billion from a food program for poor women and children and a subsidized heating program, again for the poor. They would also cut the EPA and programs for alternative energy resources. Money for Family Planning would have to go. So they make skimpy cuts in programs that will make millions of lives miserable. Still, they have not created one job.

Go ahead, you can say it. These are all political cuts. These are not budget cutting decisions made on economic grounds. No, they are based on ideology. that's all. And none of these decisions will have the slightest effect on Big Business.

Now comes Sen.Richard Shelby a Republican from Alabama, who sits firmly in the pocket of big business. He tells us that we have to make some cuts in Social Security. Now that money, actually belongs to U.S. citizens who work for it. So what does Shelby want to do and why? He wants to increase the age at which a recipient could collect by a couple of years every few years. And why does he want to do this? Well, the brilliant Senator tells us, because the system is running out of money.

He's either lying or he is stupid, most likely both. Then you can use the latter to cover for the former. Bush II created this style of Republican Politics. It is called "It can't be a lie if I didn't know it." You see, the Social Security system actually has a surplus this year of $2.5 trillion and will have one next year of $4.2 trillion. So Shelby, like most other Republicans would like to transfer our money from our pockets, probably to finance another tax break for the super wealthy.

The typical U.S. citizen has got to get used to the idea that his or her government is dishonest, not just to its allies around the world, but to its very own citizens. This situation exists because U.S. citizens have allowed banking and finance industries to take over their country. Almost all government decisions are made today based on whether or not they will add or subtract from the wealth of an absurdly small number of wealthy Americans.

A form of socialism now runs our lives; an exotic socialism, one where the entities with the most wealth receive the most subsidies from the government, while the poor have their subsidies taken away. It is a kind of reverse socialism. But it is still socialism.

The corporate-socialist Republicans who are presently in power, who swore to voters last fall that they were hell-bent to pursue a pro-jobs, pro-growth agenda were lying. Democrats lie too. But simple math will show you that the Republicans who brought us invisible atomic weapons in Iraq are far ahead of the Democrats.

The Republicans are very good parasites. They will drink our blood until they are engorged. Then they will fall off, fat and happy. That has always been their pattern.