The more I read this story and think about it, the more pissed off I get.
Last week the House passed the tax cuts to extend them to 2010. The tax cuts
pertain mainly to capital gains and dividends, meaning that they affect the
upper-middle and upper classes of this country.
Yesterday the House took this action:
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans made progress on twin tracks
Wednesday toward their end-of-year budget goals, passing a bill freezing or
cutting back spending on medical research and education and nearing
agreement on cuts to the Medicaid health care program for the poor.The first measure, a $602 billion bill funding a wide variety of health,
education and labor programs, passed the House on a 215-213 vote. It would
cut federal aid to education for the first time in a decade, and spread
about $1.4 billion in cuts across the departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education.
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This congress has once again proven they don’t give a damn about the middle
and lower classes of this country. We have heard over the years that America is
changing and its work force must be trained for that change. What a better way
to prepare the country for that than to cut education and labor programs.
Congress is doing everything within its power to further separate the upper
class from the middle and lower classes. With the cost of campaigns rising to
over $30 million a seat, this action is destroying our democracy. In other
words, the Republicans in Congress have squashed the “American dream” and
destroyed our nation even more. All this in the name of greed.