After months of steadfast refusal, Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy just announced his ransom demands in exchange for avoiding economic default.
His plan, among other things, would slash funding for the Social Security Administration, leading to closed field offices, shorter hours, and longer wait times for people applying for benefits.
His plan wouldn’t touch the $2 trillion tax giveaway to millionaires and billionaires that Republicans passed under Trump. In fact, it would make it easier for the super-rich to cheat on their taxes by defunding the IRS.
That’s right: McCarthy's plan lets millionaires and billionaires cheat on their taxes and pays for it by making it harder for you to get Social Security.
Bad ideas and lies, coupled with political partizanship can be informative, but not about the real world, for they have ceased faithfully to reflect that world, but about the subjective state of the person who nourish those ideas. Bad ideas do not just happen, people are responsible for them. They result from carelessness on our part, and selfishness when we cease to pay sufficient attention and care to the relational quality of ideas and their applications, or worse, they are a product of the willful rejection of objective facts.
Congress is still going through the legislative text, but there are plenty of other cuts to vital programs, from food stamps to student loan relief, to cutting medical insurance from millions of Americans. There’s even a giveaway to oil companies!
McCarthy knows that his unpopular cuts will never pass on their own merits―that’s why he’s threatening to destroy our economy and throw millions out of work if Democrats won’t meet his demands.
Speaker MaCarthy relentless desire to attain his current leadership position, led him to a position where he can no longer control the extreme core Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Green and others. This is the price America end up paying for MaCarthy's political ambitions.
We have less than two months until default―we must stand united and STOP McCarthy’s scheme!
My usual many thanks to all
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