The Obscene Republican Proposed Budget

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his proposed budget for 2013. It is a budget the clearly protects multimillionaires like himself but doesn’t look so good for the rest of us.

Here are some key points. Massive cuts to food stamps, student loans, Medicaid and Social Security. It would also erase Medicare as we know it changing it into a voucher program, which is great for profit based health insurance companies but would leave millions of seniors to deal with these companies on their own.

Now for the tax breaks; guess who gets them? The top 1% wins again with the top income tax rate reduced from 35% to 25%. This would amount to a 3 trillion tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. Of course the tax breaks are made possible by the above mentioned reduction of safety net programs.

Ryan says “It’s up to the people to demand…a choice between two futures. The question is which future will you choose? Good question shall we continue the supply side economics and reduced oversight of corporate greed introduced by Reagan and continues to destroy the middle class and bring grief to the poor or we can go with Paul Ryan and delude ourselves that wealth will “trickle down” but in actuallity where the rich get all the goodies.

We need a new New Deal based upon demand-side Keynesian economics and compassion for the poor and opportunities for the middle class to be able to chase the American Dream again.

Obscenity, aside from the sexual lewd stuff is defined as “offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency; offensive to moral principles; repugnant.

Paul Ryan’s proposed budget meets all those criteria to a T. It is obscene and should be called such.