The House of Representatives Budget plan devised by the majority Republicans is a clear cut attack on the middle class and the poor, and all of the social and economic progress of the 20th century Presidents and Congresses which brought prosperity and a growing middle class to American society!
The budget document is an obscene attempt to promote the super wealthy and corporate agenda at the expense of the middle class, and the poor, and with no compassion or conscience displayed at all!
Imagine this:
1. The destruction of 700,000 jobs due to the budget cuts.
2. Cutting of three million low income people from community health centers.
3.Cutting of food and health care assistance to pregnant women, new mothers, and children.
4. Major cut in funds for Head Start.
5. End of federal funding for National Public Radio and PBS.
6. Forcing states to fire teachers and aides, making class sizes dramatically larger.
7. Cutting of some or all financial aid to over 9 million college students who are low income or middle income.
8. Slashing of funds to the National Institutes of Health, cutting research on cancer, Alzheimers, and Parkinsons diseases.
9. Cutting all support of Planned Parenthood, and family planning programs.
10. Putting 10,000 veterans into homelessness because of cuts in housing vouchers.
Other plans are in the works to prevent all abortions, cut the Environmental Protection Agency ability to protect against industrial pollution, and to do nothing to create new jobs, hoping to make economic conditions worse, with the hope that the American people would blame the Democrats and President Obama for the poorly performing economy!
This is a time for all decent people to make clear through calls and emails to their Congressmen and Senators that they will not tolerate the war on America’s middle class and the poor being perpetrated by the Republican Party!
It is time that excuses for budget cuts be replaced by tax increases on the wealthy and the corporations, who have to take responsibility on the national and state levels to help resolve the inequities that exist in America. They have received enough benefits over the past ten years, and really the past thirty years, and it is time to pay up as good, responsible Americans!