Just hours after one small victory, came this enormous defeat.
Last night, House Republicans managed to twist enough arms to force through $50 billion in budget cuts from programs which help the poorest of our citizens. Republicans, like Chris “Count” Chocola, would like us to believe that they are doing it to be “fiscally responsible”:
“Today we are simply slowing the future growth of government,” said Representative Chris Chocola, Republican of Indiana, as the House opened debate. Mr. Chocola said the reductions, if translated to a typical family budget of $50,000, represented a savings of $50.
The reality? These cuts for the poor were necessary so they could ram through an additional $70 billion in tax cuts for the rich. If you’re following along at home, folks, yes, that means that they’re actually ADDING $20 billion to the deficit.
On the backs of the poor.
So the rich can have even MORE money.
Indeed, there IS class warfare going on in our nation. It is the Republicans’ class warfare against the poor and the middle class in our country.
In the last election, “moral values” was trotted out as a key issue for a large percentage of voters. Unfortunately, as we can now see, moral values lost the election in 2004, as it did in 2002 and 2000. The Republican vision - “make the poor people who wouldn’t vote for us anyway even poorer so we can make our rich doners even richer - so they can bribe us again to make them richer still” - is unjust and immoral.
