At the stroke of midnight on December 1, unemployment benefits began to run out for some 2 million Americans. The Republicans in Congress say they don't want to extend the benefits again if it will add to the deficit. They seem to care more about the deficit than about the ability of the unemployed to feed their families.
Of course, it's just fine with them if we continue to pour billions of dollars into our ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. And of course they want to extend Bush's tax cuts for millionaires. Where money is concerned, killing brown people and making rich people richer are more important than feeding the children of the unfortunate Americans whose jobs were shipped overseas.
And just in time for the holidays!
Yes, Bill O'Reilly, there really is a war on Christmas. And it's brought to you by the Republicans in Congress who just ruined the holidays for so many unemployed Americans.
The Rushpubliscums have demonstrated a willingness to punish the unemployed, and children, to make sure that their rich masters continue to get those handsome givebacks.
ReplyDeleteI say it's time to stop fighting, let ALL the tax cuts expire, and then hit the Rushpubliscums over the head with it, every day, for the next 2 years.
I don't have a great deal of confidence that this will happen, of course, but I always was a dreamer.
They really are "the party of Scrooges," well put. JR, you're right, Obama should just call their bluff and let them all expire. Show them for what they really are. When will people wake up and realize what the GOP's game is? I still can't believe they voted so many of them into Congress this year. Don't they see what they are up to?
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