The GOP "Kill the Poor" Budget Plan
By Thom Hartmann A...
Even as it is slashes away at Medicaid, food stamps and healthcare for children, Donald Trump's budget plan calls for a $52 billion increase in defense spending and a $1.6 billion allocation for his completely unnecessary border wall.
President Eisenhower would have opposed Donald Trump's "kill the poor" budget plan.
So why won't today's Republicans?
It is exactly what REPUBLICAN President Dwight D Eisenhower warned us about in his 1953 "Cross of Iron" speech.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete pavement.
We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people...
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Wasn't Eisenhower right?
Isn't this budget a kind of theft?
Comments
#2
I think it would be absurd to now pretend to be shocked by the idea of worsening conditions for the poor, much less to put the blame on Republicans. The Clinton Democrats ended actual welfare aid some 20 years ago, and took the first steps to similarly "reform" Social Security, targeting the disabled. Since then, the overall life expectancy of the US poor fell below that of every developed nation. Dems in Congress kicked off 2015 alone with voting to virtually end food stamps to the elderly poor and thre disabled (cut from $115 per month, dpown to $10). The liberal response throughout...? Democrats not only took the lead in the war on the poor some 20 years ago, but made it cool to ignore the consequences.
#3
It doesn't take a PhD in economics to figure out that cutting trillions from an economic engine that's already a house of cards and then redirecting those same trillions into the accounts of billionaires and unending war is economic insanity.
Putin is using the Republican Party to destroy our country. We've been attacked and are at war. It seems the CIA is the only agency aware of it and they aren't doing a damn thing to stop it.
#4
deepspace: Why in hell the Pope would agree to a meeting with an evil loser I'll never know. I guess he hasn't heard about Trump's budget yet? God help us all.
#5
The Trump budget as it relates to the old Marie Antoinette quote of…"let them eat cake," is: let them drink piss. Why do you think they call it "trickle down economics?" So Trump supporters, while you are looking up to your dear leader…he will literally be pissing in your face, which of course, will make you love him even more.
#6
2950-10K: The Pope's job description requires that he be an eternal optimist, of course, and by nature he is an accomplished diplomat; still, a business-as-usual ceremonial audience with a sexual predator, global-warming denier, and psychopathic, wannabe despot was a squandered opportunity to publicly slap down this phony Christian.
At the very least, a Father of the Church might have issued a statement pointing out the utterly duplicitous discrepancies between the brutal policies the Great White Supremacist Savior advocates and the religious principles he professes. It's too bad Comey wasn't there "hiding" in front of a blue curtain taking notes during the private mano-a-mano between Pope Frank and The Don. In this case, the sanctity of a confessional should be violated for the sake of humanity.
#7
stopgap: Ha! That puts a whole new spin on the Irish phrase, "pissed," as in piss drunk.
#8
If these bastards ram this bill through and succeed in cutting all of our social programs, they anyone who votes yes and anyone who signs it - like the entire GOP - or votes yes on it, needs to be charged with premeditated murder, and genocide, marched to Leavenworth Prison in Kansas - like Trump's buddy Andrew Jackson marched the Native Americans and dropped them off west of the Mississippi - put on trial by a military tribunal and hanged publicly in the only mass hanging in American history. We cannot let the GOP make a mockery of our government and our Constitution.
#9
I'll have to admit, I'm not to familiar with many Irish phrases, but it does appear that Trump supporters seem to believe that Trump's ass is the Blarney Stone!
#10
Even if the Pope had issued such a declaration, the MSM would not report it.
#11
I don't think that anyone believes that this bill will pass, but most people believe that it does tell us exactly who Republcans really are. Not that we thought anything different.
#12
For decades Republicans have savaged their opponents by simply excelling in the use of political language. I suggest that we use the term 'Republicancare' rather than Trumpcare to broaden the frame.
#13
The right swore an oath to our Constitution, turn around and go against it. How can that just slide?
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Even if Congress dilutes the fake president's draconian budget proposal somewhat to make it slightly more palatable for their fake moderates, don't expect any of the mercy for the poor and the disadvantaged that their religion teaches. These people are unprincipled hypocrites to their core.
Look no further than today's CBO score for the billionaire tax cut disguised as a "healthcare" replacement bill, which was already passed out of the House with the help of their so-called moderates: 23 million fellow human beings will lose coverage by 2026, ensuring that tens of thousands every year will be condemned to death.
The tyrant and his thugs are genocidal maniacs. Does anyone honestly believe that Pope Francis had any affect at all on The Liar, while he pretended to humble himself in the presence of His Holiness? All the prayers and incantations in the world won't inspire these soulless fiends to repent their evil ways.