Friday, February 11, 2011

Apparently President Obama DOES believe in wealth re-distribution...in reverse...

Sometimes I honestly wonder what happened to the guy I saw on the campaign trail, I really do. He was all fired up about rectifying the wrongs, putting the country back on the right path, bringing sanity and reason back to the body politic, and yet as soon as he was sworn into office (twice) he has become someone else entirely. Instead of wielding his mega-majority like the mighty hammer of Thor, he has meekly capitulated to every single threat issued by the radical right-wing, and he deservedly got his milquetoast ass handed to him in the mid-terms.

I have mentioned more than a few policies in which I am in complete disagreement with the President on this blog over the last year or so, and each has felt to me to be a bigger betrayal than the last, but this latest one simply takes the cake. In the midst of the most bitterly-cold winter that many folks can remember, the President has suggested in his next budget cutting the heating assistance given to the poor almost in half. Specifically he wants to cut out $2.5 Billion from a $5.1 Billion heating budget.

To put it into perspective it was -12F yesterday morning on my way to work, but my house was a nice and toasty 70F, I simply cannot fathom what it would be like to be without heat at this time of year. But more than that, I simply cannot believe that a Democratic President would come up with an idea like this. I am beyond amazed. My flabber is well and truly gasted. This is the sort of heartless shit the rethuglicans are supposed to try and pull. How he or his advisors have squared this circle is beyond me. I can think of no possible way to put a positive spin on the glaring reality that the tax-gifts to the uber-wealthy that the President just authorized are being balanced on the backs of the same poor folk he has proposed may have to go without heat.

I can sort of see how some of the other cockamamie bullshit he has pulled over the last two years could potentially be skewed to make some sort of political sense if you look at them from just the right angle and you squint your eyes a bit, but in this instance he's not even being threatened by the republicans. Bill O'Really, Sean Insanity and Rush Limpballs haven't said a word about this program, and yet, somehow this Democratic President has decided that in the depths of the coldest winter in well over a decade it would be a good idea to let the poor folks know they are well and truly buggered come this time next year.

At this rate the only people voting for Obama in 2012 will be the republicans.

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