On the News With Thom
Hartmann: Republicans in Congress Release Budget Blueprint, and More
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
01:52By Thom Hartmann, The
Thom Hartmann Program | Report
You need to know
this. Republicans in Congress unveiled their vision for America today –
and if they succeed, the 99% of us are condemned to live like
serfs. House Budget Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan, himself a multimillionaire, released his blueprint budget
for fiscal year 2013 – which includes massive cuts to food stamps, student
loans, Medicaid, and Social Security. The budget also dismantles Medicare
as we know it – transforming an insurance program into a voucher program,
leaving millions of senior citizens on their own to deal with for-profit health
insurance companies. And in a nod to the Republican Party’s super-rich
members like himself, Ryan proposes enormous tax breaks for the 1% - lowering
the top income tax rate from 35% down to 25%. According to the Tax Policy
Center – Ryan’s budget would give $3 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthiest
Americans – all paid for by cutting spending on education, healthcare, and
Medicare. Congressman Ryan said about his budget, “It’s up to the people to
demand ... a choice between two futures. The question is which future
will you choose?” That is the question indeed – will we choose the future
in which a middle class can thrive again in America like it did for 50 years
after the New Deal until Ronald Reagan blew everything up? Or – will we
choose Paul Ryan’s path to an Ayn Rand dystopia, in which only the
super-wealthy can go to good schools and see doctors, and everyone else is left
with what trickles down from the tables of the rich?
He says it well.
I don't see how it can fly ..and ponder the epiphany the
ReplyDeleteman has had, since he received Soc Security survivor payments which he saved for college and now would shred both SS and education.
..perhaps as oxymoronic as his Ayn Rand Catholicism?