the wealthy are too greedy & selfish to look beyond stealing another dollar today -- AND they ignore the future they are leaving to their heirs --BUT they will leave lots of dollars which their heirs can't eat, drink or breathe..
At one time, not all that long ago, the greedy thieves operating as congress attempted to hide their outrageously immoral activities behind deceptive allusions about patriotism and freedom and other 'high' sounding words and phrases. Now, they just let it all hang out there for everyone to see in all of its naked awfulness. The motto of the moment is 'get all you can now' since they realize that they have led us to a point in time where there is not much time left. "Get it while you can" is the current catch-word. Having ignored global warming and climate change for the last few decades, they know the horrible outcomes awaiting humanity just around the corner, and at this point, pretense simply slows the process of snatching up those last few dollars.
"Damn the poor" isn't exactly shouted from the rooftops, but it is stated in plain unmistakable terms. Hypocrisy no longer serves a purpose. All of those fake platitudes about democracy and individual rights are now cast aside in this last minute stampeed for plunder. Trillions of dollars for the very wealthy and 'damn the poor' is right out there in the open.
It hardly matters whether or not they are re-elected because they plan to get 'theirs', now. Besides, their actions have assured that there is not much of a future for the rest of us, so, what's the value of pretending at this point? What the hell, let's just drop some nuclear bombs and be done with it!
While, it is easy to accept this attitude toward the poor and minorities and those in 3rd world countries, it is strange to believe this is the attitude toward their own children and grandchildren whose future has been destroyed along with the future of us all.
And the separation of 'party' in the voting for this particular budget deceives one into believing that the two parties differ... they do not. Republicans could not have gotten to this vote without the compliance of Democrats. What happens on the floor of congress is a stage show, an act.
And yet, the truth is right there in front of us all - easy to see. Congress wants to give penny possible to the wealthy elite who control them, regardless of the costs, and 'screw the American people', and that's the truth !!!
Republican House Members Just Voted to Destroy the Safety Net and
Deliver a Trillion-Dollar Tax Cut to the Rich
from Common Dreams by Jake Johnson
Deliver a Trillion-Dollar Tax Cut to the Rich
from Common Dreams by Jake Johnson
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly passed a Senate-approved budget resolution that moves Republicans one step closer to their ultimate goal of delivering massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and imposing "grotesque" and "heartless" cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other life-saving safety net programs.
"The representatives who just chose the bank accounts of their donors over the health and wellbeing of their constituents should be ashamed."
—Morris Pearl, Patriotic Millionaires
The final vote tally was 216-212, with 20 Republicans defecting from their party. No Democrats backed the measure.
Frank Clemente, executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness, called the GOP budget an "immoral calamity" in a statement following Thursday's vote.
"The Republicans in the House have just advanced an immoral tax plan that will have disastrous real-world consequences for many millions of Americans," Clemente said. "It's a calamity of their own making, and voters will remember it."
Despite insistence from President Donald Trump and the GOP that their budget is pro-working class, analysis after analysis has shown that their proposals would in fact raise taxes on many middle class families while sending an enormous windfall—$1.5 trillion over the next decade—to the top one percent.
Meanwhile, notes Vox's Dylan Matthews, "the federal welfare state would be rolled back in just about every dimension."
"All non-Medicare health programs would see a cut of $1.3 trillion, or nearly 30 percent, by 2027," Matthews adds. "Medicare would be cut too, to the tune of $473 billion. There is $1 trillion over 10 years in mystery cuts to mandatory programs, cuts that would in practice almost certainly hurt programs for the poor."
Morris Pearl, chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, said in a statement Thursday that "[t]he representatives who just chose the bank accounts of their donors over the health and wellbeing of their constituents should be ashamed."
"Two hundred sixteen members of the House just voted to hurt millions of vulnerable Americans, including many of their own constituents, just to give millionaires like me a massive, unnecessary tax break," Pearl added. "The American people don't want a $1.5 trillion cut to Medicare and Medicaid and they don't want a huge tax cut for the rich, but wealthy donors do."
Proving Pearl's point, both the billionaire U.S. President Donald Trump and the Koch Brothers-backed Freedom Works celebrated the resolution's passage.
"On to tax reform!" declared FreedomWorks in a statement. And Trump, who personally stands to make millions for he and and his family if the GOP tax plan ultimately goes through, tweeted: "Big news—Budget just passed."
"The representatives who just chose the bank accounts of their donors over the health and wellbeing of their constituents should be ashamed."
—Morris Pearl, Patriotic Millionaires
The final vote tally was 216-212, with 20 Republicans defecting from their party. No Democrats backed the measure.
Frank Clemente, executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness, called the GOP budget an "immoral calamity" in a statement following Thursday's vote.
"The Republicans in the House have just advanced an immoral tax plan that will have disastrous real-world consequences for many millions of Americans," Clemente said. "It's a calamity of their own making, and voters will remember it."
Despite insistence from President Donald Trump and the GOP that their budget is pro-working class, analysis after analysis has shown that their proposals would in fact raise taxes on many middle class families while sending an enormous windfall—$1.5 trillion over the next decade—to the top one percent.
Meanwhile, notes Vox's Dylan Matthews, "the federal welfare state would be rolled back in just about every dimension."
"All non-Medicare health programs would see a cut of $1.3 trillion, or nearly 30 percent, by 2027," Matthews adds. "Medicare would be cut too, to the tune of $473 billion. There is $1 trillion over 10 years in mystery cuts to mandatory programs, cuts that would in practice almost certainly hurt programs for the poor."
Morris Pearl, chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, said in a statement Thursday that "[t]he representatives who just chose the bank accounts of their donors over the health and wellbeing of their constituents should be ashamed."
"Two hundred sixteen members of the House just voted to hurt millions of vulnerable Americans, including many of their own constituents, just to give millionaires like me a massive, unnecessary tax break," Pearl added. "The American people don't want a $1.5 trillion cut to Medicare and Medicaid and they don't want a huge tax cut for the rich, but wealthy donors do."
Proving Pearl's point, both the billionaire U.S. President Donald Trump and the Koch Brothers-backed Freedom Works celebrated the resolution's passage.
"On to tax reform!" declared FreedomWorks in a statement. And Trump, who personally stands to make millions for he and and his family if the GOP tax plan ultimately goes through, tweeted: "Big news—Budget just passed."
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