How is the Republican Party like Jim Jones ?
Although Joblessness is our most
critical problem, Republicans have done nothing to address it. In
fact, they cut jobs at all levels of government, blocked an adequate
stimulus program, passed harsh new laws restricting unions from
bargaining, stopped infrastructure improvement for highways and
railroads . All of which assured worse unemployment percentages.
The Republican agenda has had a
devastating effect on the middle class. Since Reagan, wages have
fallen, families need two paychecks, benefits cut, pensions all but
disappeared. To make matters worse, they want to cut Social Security,
roll back health care reform, revise Medicare so that it is a voucher
program, cut head start programs, make education more unaffordable,
cut life support for the vulnerable, but deliver tax cuts to the
wealthy. The middle class is sinking fast, demand is weak, so
business will not expand.
Republicans act like they WANT the
economy to collapse so that they can win the next election.
They refuse to pay the bills for
the
wars and tax cuts that they put on the tab, they were prepared to
default on the debt and, in the process, crash not only the US
economy but the world's.
The Republican party serves
oligarchs,
like Rupert Murdoch and others, who own it. In the past, they brought us the criminal Bush
administration with dreams of an imperial presidency, gratuitous
wars, secret offshore prisons, illegal wiretaps, secret government,
torture, the unlimited military, and the dedication to corporatism
(aka Fascism). All accompanied by the impoverishment of the American
people.
So now Republicans are engaging in
extortion. Because they are only concerned about money, they are ignoring the real problems
that face us including crumbling infrastructure, failing schools,
massive unemployment, accelerating poverty, unprecedented income
inequality, and, in their willfully ignorant stance, insist that
climate degradation is not a problem.
If they get their way, the massive
extinction event now underway will surely continue, will be their
legacy for the children, and quite possibly the end of humanity.
See
http://www.seconnecticut.com/republicans.htm
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