Fifteen very bad things Republicans would do if they got their selfish way

[Octafish]

An important reminder from our good friends at Smirking Chimp:

Fifteen very bad things Republicans would do if they got their selfish way

by Dennis Rahkonen
Smirking Chimp
November 12, 2009 - 12:11pm

Always the political instrument of moneyed elites, and a retrograde societal force, the GOP today is more negatively impactful than ever. Its agenda, if fully implemented, would prove catastrophic. Here's what an unfettered Republican Party would do "for" America:

1) Greatly reduce or entirely eliminate taxes on the rich, thereby forcing hard-pressed working families to painfully make up resulting revenue shortfalls.

2) Bust labor unions, cruelly preventing the collective bargaining that's the key reason why US workers ever won decent wages and benefits.

3) Stubbornly deny the existence of ominous climate change while blithely pumping more pollutants into the environment from lucrative, dirty industries and practices. Although reputable scientists say 350 carbon parts per atmospheric million is the safe limit for sustained life on Earth, Republicans dismiss the frightening fact that we're already at a carbon level of roughly 390 ppm.

4) Remove "restrictive" regulations on everything from investment banks and credit card companies to a broad array of "profit-eroding" consumer protections, leaving the American masses exposed to a host of resulting abuses and dangers.

5) Continue to criticize and insufficiently fund public education, advocating private schooling instead, thus entirely ignoring that progressive public systems are used in every country that has education outcomes superior to our own.

CONTINUED...

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Back in 2001, the Smirking Chimp stood with DU.

They, too, have not gived up the good fight.

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. K&R

[Octafish]

2. I must be on double-secret ignore.

I couldn't find this in my "My Du" box.

Thanks for being real, SammyWinstonJack!

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. For you.

:kick:

[KoKo]

3. Interesting...THANKS!

:kick:

[nashville_brook]

4. i love the Chimp. knr!

[MisterP]

6. the lesson is (or should be), not to vote for the right soup label, but for the untainted soup

since if we have a Prez keeping tax breaks for the wealthy, deregulate and bail out the banksters throwing people out on the street, advocate privatization, give wiretappers and mass murderers a free pass, keep blowing people up in Afghanistan, Pakistan (Somalia...), stay in Iraq, back off of single payer...

that's as bad, results-wise, as starting those policies