Further proof that republicans are nothing more than walking bags of pigshit comes with the news that the budget deal agreed to this past weekend (if by 'deal' you mean Democrats doing exactly what the republicans tell them to do and then being told to fucking like it), had all sorts of riders attached to it that had sweet fuck-all to do with erasing national financial obligations, and everything to do with fucking Democrats and their voting base squarely in the ass.
A small sample of what those "deficit hawks" in the republican party thought were vital to slash in order to bring down the deficit; the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program is cut $504 million, foreign food assistance by $194 million and assistance to state and local law enforcement by $415 million. The EPA (the government agency tasked to prevent corporations from poisoning our water and laying waste to our public lands) was cut by $1.6 billion dollars. Community healthcare centers lose $600 million while HIV and other disease-prevention funds are cut by $1 billion.
Oh yeah, and the Gray Wolf gets delisted from the Endangered Species Act, you know, because a bunch of congress-critters know more about species recovery and survival than the actual experts that put them on the list in the first place.
Those are just a few examples of the many cuts the reptiles demanded had to be made, despite the fact that the impact on the national debt is almost precisely zero.
This has nothing to do with 'fiscal responsibility'. This has nothing to do with 'controlling the deficit'. This is about spite and greed and nothing else. These cuts make not a bit of difference to the overall financial well-being of the United States, but they will have deep and potentially devastating impacts on the individuals that relied on those services for their health and well-being. And that is why the republicans dug their heels in until they got what they wanted. They don't like you, unless you are rich, white or incorporated.
Someone once said that it isn't a class war until the poor fight back, and by the looks of it, those elected in Congress to do that fighting for them are a bunch of worthless pussies.
If the gop was serious about bringing down the deficit they should move to end the wars we are fighting, slash the Pentagon budget in half and rollback the tax breaks given to the ultra-rich. There is of course not a snowball's chance in hell that those words would ever roll off the porcine lips of a representative of the Angry Rich White Man's party, but it would be nice if at least ONE of the goddamned Democrats said something that even remotely resembled those sentiments.
I wouldn't hold your breath though...
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