The House Republicans claim to be working toward deficit reduction, and are threatening a government shutdown, and the answer, after looking at what they are demanding, is MAKE MY DAY! GO AHEAD AND SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN! YOU WILL BE BLAMED FOR IT AS IN 1995!
The whole discussion is dishonest, because the debate is not just over deficit reduction!
Understand that the Democrats and President Barack Obama have agreed to $33 billion cuts, while the Republicans have demanded $61 billion, and some Tea Party Movement members of the GOP still want $100 billion!
But while the Democrats have compromised, the Republicans have not, and they have an agenda beyond deficit reduction!
The conservatives are trying to promote other causes in H. R. 1, and the Democrats need to stand strong and proud and show they have some backbone!
Why is this the case? Consider the following:
The Republicans want to block funding for the Obama Health Care law!
The Republicans want to ban funding for financial regulatory reform!
The Republicans want to block the Environmental Protection Agency from reducing mercury and other pollutants from cement plants!
The Republicans want to block the EPA from reducing carbon dioxide pollution from power plants and refineries!
The Republicans want to block Department of Education regulations on for-profit colleges, which have victimized students with high debts without helping them gain employment, an extremely corrupt system!
The Republicans want to prohibit funding for a consumer products complaints database!
They also want to prohibit federal funds being used by Planned Parenthood for women’s health services!
The Republicans want to wipe out family planning programs for poor women, which includes medical and health services!
Also, the desire is to wipe out National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System gaining any federal funding!
This attempt to wipe out education, health care, environmental protection, financial reform, and consumer reform, and ignore women’s issues is an attack on basic needs of the American people, in favor of the rich and the corporations, and MUST NOT be agreed to by Democrats!
As the old saying is, the Democrats should declare that they will negotiate a fair reduction in the deficit, but will NOT agree to such outrageous demands as above until HELL FREEZES OVER!