Republicans are like quack doctors who prescribe their own poisonous concoctions for patients
And when the patients get sicker, they say that the only remedy is to up the dosage… For an additional fee, of course.
Thirty years of regressive economic policies have only made America sicker and sicker. Look at our crumbling infrastructure, our underlying feelings of income insecurity, our inability to focus as a nation together, to fix our myriad problems. We're lost in the wilderness, with many voices pulling us all deeper into the trees and underbrush.
More tax cuts and benefit cuts are not the key to fixing our national malady, they have been the cause. People would rather have wages than subsidies, but when the Republicans tell us all that people should work, they never address the fact that wages are inadequate and have remained flat since the days of Reagan. That jobs have been exported and that we have an economy which does not produce as much as it should. It's built to redistribute income upward, not outward. The fact that they've ignored all of that makes them complicit in creating harm.
Pointing to CEOs and Wall Street barons who have made a killing off the backs of workers and the cashing out of businesses is not a sign of a healthy economy, it's the sign of one which requires the intervention of government to help right the problems of income inequality.
Republicans have made themselves the gatekeepers for a failing system which threatens to doom up all, even the ultra rich that they serve at the detriment of everyone else.
For them, failure is an option, it's the only one. They're intentionally breaking the back our entire economy.
Once it happens, all they're going to do is blame the both the victims of their follies and everyone who has tried to prevent them.
The have no sense of responsibility, shame or conscience whatsoever. They have their golden parachutes prepared and rocks to toss to us all when we start drowning.
Hope you've all enjoyed another one of my metaphor laden rants…
Try to make the best of this day for you and yours.
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