| So it appears the irresponsible, party-before-country extremists that run the Republican Party are going to shut down our government because they are demanding completely unreasonable conditions in order to release their hostage of funding the government. Their hostage demands?
Cutting meals for 6 million homebound seniors.
Allowing 70,000 children outside US borders to die (yeah, that will really help us fight terrorism)
Gutting the National Institutes of Health so much that even Newt friggin Gingrich opposes the cuts.
Cutting 200,000 kids out of Head Start. Mind you, economists have calculated the return-on-investment for early childhood education as high as 7:1. Funny, I thought the supposed business-friendly Republicans would care about things that business people care about, like retun-on-investment. I guess not.
Create 10,000 more homeless veterans.
Essentially eliminating Medicare alltogether
Eliminating over a quarter of the staff at the SEC to allow Wall Street to repeat the irresponsibility that caused the financial crisis.
All in all, proposed GOP budget cuts will destroy 700,000 jobs. And that number comes from that left-wing rag known as Moody's.
Don't get me wrong- there is a lot of fat in the federal budget that could be cut in order to help balance the budget. For example, there are the tens of billions of dollars we use to subsidize the fossil fuel industry, hundreds of billions in wasteful defense spending, and pointless tax deductions like those for a second home or a boat. We could also cut spending on new highway construction in the next transit bill and focus instead on repairing the highways we have and expanding our mass transit network.
But the GOP clearly doesn't care about cutting fat. They want to cut muscle instead. They probably want to cut all these effective federal programs because the very existence of "effective federal programs" undermines their whole governing philosophy. Yeah, I know that whole "reality" thing has always been a bitch for the GOP, and they must realize this on some level.
So my question is, where will New York's GOP house members stand on this? Will Michael Grimm, Nan Hayworth, Peter King, Richard Hannah, Anne Buerkle, and Tom Reed side with their extremist party leadership and tea-party fanatics agains the interests of their constituents in their very-blue New York? Will they support the direct destruction of 700,000 jobs? Because if they do, they know there will be serious repercussions at the ballot box next year. |
