Are you living one Social Security check away from substituting Alpo for corned-beef hash? Then you’d better not push your damn taxes on the billionaires!
Is it just me, or does anybody else wonder why the brain surgeons in Congress and the White House won’t give us peons some KY for the shagging we’re getting while they play chicken with the debt ceiling and Republican dogma? Seriously, given all of the economic woe we’ve already endured in order to make sure that the poor bastards at Goldman Sachs can keep playing “credit swap hide-the-ball” without having to downsize their yachts, is a little lubricant too much to ask?
Apparently the Republican majority in the House is so beholden to ideology that they can’t bring themselves to avert the looming train wreck they’ve conjured. According to CNN, “At the heart of the Republican resistance is a bedrock principle pushed by conservative crusader Grover Norquist against any kind of tax increase. A pledge pushed by Norquist’s group, Americans for Tax Reform, has been signed by more than 230 House members and 40 senators, almost all of them Republicans.” Brilliant!! By God we won’t accept any tax hikes on billionaires, the workers and economy that made them billionaires be damned!
Are you living one Social Security check away from substituting Alpo for corned-beef hash? Then you’d better not push your damn taxes on the billionaires!
Have those chemotherapy treatments drained your reserves? Could Medicaid help take the edge off? Then shut your trap about raising taxes on the billionaires!
Food stamps? Are you serious? Do you realize how expensive caviar has gotten these days? Pauper please! Don’t forget, hobos don’t vote!
If any of the above (admittedly) inflammatory rhetoric has you feeling a little light in the wallet, then call your Congressman and ask them if they could spare a little KY. Here’s a great website for tracking down your elected officials: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
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