“What’s going to increase the deficit is the failure to deal with entitlement spending. That’s what’s driving it,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Ok.), an appropriator.
The deal raising the debt ceiling and setting spending limits for defense and non-defense discretionary spending this year will add as much as $1.7 trillion to the deficit over a decade.
Not recommended.
There is a lot of both-sides-ism in this piece, obscuring some basic facts.
Democrats do not want to gut or decrease government spending for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which Americans depend on for survival, but which Republicons refer to as “entitlements,” with a sneer.
Republicons always want to cut these lifeline social safety net programs, to achieve ever greater tax breaks for the wealthiest, and more massive subsidies for the biggest, wealthiest, most powerful industries.
This may help with clarity.
Democrats: America equals people – Americans, naturalized Americans, and potential Americans (who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants, and who should not be tortured). America equals powerful principles.
Republicons: America equals corporations and profits, wealthy people, and unprincipled power. Everyone else and everything else is an expendable and disposable resource.
The mistake people make in talking to Conservatives about the Coming problems inherent in Climate Change is using the word Us. To the Conservative their is no Us or We, it is all I. As long as you explain what problems We face, their eyes will just glaze over and they at most will nod. The power brokers know this and they play on it, they allow finely crafted papers detailing every step, because none of those they expect to discard keeping us out of their way will respond, the words are wrong.
Want proof of this? Just look at how fast certain lines of approach were swatted down and never reopened. One entire set of problems was the migrant problem and how Syria’s Civil War was a demonstration of that problem. Because of key trigger words such as Migrant would trigger certain bases, this entire line of reporting is GONE. Has anyone followed up the Guardians reporting on climate and Guatemalan refugees? Some minor spill comes up on Bangladesh and the migrant effect their and on neighboring India, but low key and avoid comment on effects on US.
Don’t ever ask again if America is ready for ……… type of President. I would never have expected such an incompetent mass of naked nerves as the ignorant racists we have now, yet America quickly made him welcome and has yet to stand up o him in anything he has wanted, nor call him out on his
imbecilic
moves in the world arena. His corruption and cronyism is making Putin look both small time and professional.
Unless a person hiring for new jobs is paying a fair salary with benefits do not call them a job creator. What they are doing is using your misery to generate more wealth for them.
