Unfortunately, the exremist wing of the Republican Party, the TEA Party, has won the long acrimonious debt ceiling battle. President Obama apparently decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, and is accepting the TEA Party backed debt ceiling bill that is 100% budget cuts and no new revenue raises, meaning that the billionaires will still be able to keep their money stashed in offshore tax havens and corporations will still be able to pay absolutely nothing in taxes. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will be gutted, the poor, senior citizens and the vulnerable will be asked to bear the burden again and millions more people will fall into poverty, joblessness will increase and the economy will continue to tank. I know why the TEA Party is doing this and that is their number one goal of the complete destruction of President Obama. So far they have been wildly successful in steering him to the right so that the progressives and Democrats will become so alienated that they will not vote for him. I find myself very frustrated and angry that Democrats refuse to grow a spine and stand up to Republicans. Time and again, they roll over at the first sign of a Republican threat and I do not know why. I am outraged and angry because it is looking more and more like I will never again get a raise as long as I stay on my job, promising that I will probably eventually fall into poverty despite working full time. I'm already on the edge of that right now, and I live very frugally. If Republicans have their way, and it looks like they will, there will be no more middle class and we will return to aristocrats and serfs as in old Mediaeval Europe. And what amazes me is the silence on the part of the progressives out there. Where is the outrage? Why aren't they taking to the streets and demanding justice for the middle class? Why the silence? Are they intimidated? Are they just so disspirited that they have given up? Sure, we don't have a financial backer like the TEA Party has in the Koch brothers, but still....is Senator Bernie Sanders the ONLY one who is speaking for the progressives out there? Well, this whole debt ceiling thing was a sham in the first place and a tool that the Republicans manufactured in order to get rid of the social safety net, and this time, they finally won their 70 year battle to get rid of Social Security and their 50 year battle to end Medicare and Medicaid. So I guess that pretty much seals it that I will never get to retire. I'll be working until the day I die or can no longer drag myself into Akron day in, day out. This country is so screwed, and unfortunately, the Democrats and Progressives have pretty much just rolled over and given up trying to fight a small cadre of right wing radicals who are determined to remake our country in some weird image that will promise that we will become a third world nation where income inequality will continue to worsen and we will no longer have a middle class. Our best days are definitely behind us.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
TEA Baggers win the budget battle
Unfortunately, the exremist wing of the Republican Party, the TEA Party, has won the long acrimonious debt ceiling battle. President Obama apparently decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, and is accepting the TEA Party backed debt ceiling bill that is 100% budget cuts and no new revenue raises, meaning that the billionaires will still be able to keep their money stashed in offshore tax havens and corporations will still be able to pay absolutely nothing in taxes. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will be gutted, the poor, senior citizens and the vulnerable will be asked to bear the burden again and millions more people will fall into poverty, joblessness will increase and the economy will continue to tank. I know why the TEA Party is doing this and that is their number one goal of the complete destruction of President Obama. So far they have been wildly successful in steering him to the right so that the progressives and Democrats will become so alienated that they will not vote for him. I find myself very frustrated and angry that Democrats refuse to grow a spine and stand up to Republicans. Time and again, they roll over at the first sign of a Republican threat and I do not know why. I am outraged and angry because it is looking more and more like I will never again get a raise as long as I stay on my job, promising that I will probably eventually fall into poverty despite working full time. I'm already on the edge of that right now, and I live very frugally. If Republicans have their way, and it looks like they will, there will be no more middle class and we will return to aristocrats and serfs as in old Mediaeval Europe. And what amazes me is the silence on the part of the progressives out there. Where is the outrage? Why aren't they taking to the streets and demanding justice for the middle class? Why the silence? Are they intimidated? Are they just so disspirited that they have given up? Sure, we don't have a financial backer like the TEA Party has in the Koch brothers, but still....is Senator Bernie Sanders the ONLY one who is speaking for the progressives out there? Well, this whole debt ceiling thing was a sham in the first place and a tool that the Republicans manufactured in order to get rid of the social safety net, and this time, they finally won their 70 year battle to get rid of Social Security and their 50 year battle to end Medicare and Medicaid. So I guess that pretty much seals it that I will never get to retire. I'll be working until the day I die or can no longer drag myself into Akron day in, day out. This country is so screwed, and unfortunately, the Democrats and Progressives have pretty much just rolled over and given up trying to fight a small cadre of right wing radicals who are determined to remake our country in some weird image that will promise that we will become a third world nation where income inequality will continue to worsen and we will no longer have a middle class. Our best days are definitely behind us.
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