Do you know about the GOP'S Gusher up program?

by Carol Posted 2012/06/03 22:39:28

Related Topics: Ronald Reagan, Jihad, Deficit, China, Debt, Republican Party, GOP, Health Care, Credit, Republican, Economics, Cantor, Baby, Party, Republicans, Economy

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Far from creating the trickle-down economics promised by Reagan, the policies pursued by the modern Republican Party are gusher up. Under the leadership of Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the House's radicalized GOP caucus is pushing a predatory agenda for a new gilded age. Every move that Republicans make – whether it's to gut consumer protections, roll back environmental regulations, subsidize giant agribusinesses, abolish health care reform or just drill, baby, drill – is consistent with a single overarching agenda: to enrich the nation's wealthiest individuals and corporations, even if it requires borrowing from China, weakening national security, dismantling Medicare and taxing the middle class. With the nation still mired in the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, Republicans have categorically rejected the one financial policy with a proven record of putting the country back on a more prosperous footing. "You hear the Republicans say that you don't dare raise taxes in a weak economy," says Stockman. "Ronald Reagan did – three times." Not even the downgrading of America's debt – which placed the world's only superpower on credit par with New Zealand and Belgium – has given GOP leaders cause to reconsider their pro-wealth jihad. In August, as the so-called Supercommittee began its work to complete the debt-ceiling deal by reducing future deficits by another $1.5 trillion, Cantor issued the Party of the Rich's marching orders, insisting that Republicans not buckle under the "tremendous pressure" to hike taxes and instead target spending cuts in "mandatory programs."

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JanHopkins 2012/06/04 15:35:40

Undecided

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We need a third party.

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David Lindner 2012/06/03 22:42:50

Undecided

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reality check! obama has top down policies.

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Carol to David L... 2012/06/04 03:08:42

Did you read the question?

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David L... to Carol 2012/06/04 03:18:23

Yes. I did. You were baselessly assassinating republicans with wing nut theories

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Carol to David L... 2012/06/04 22:39:06

Not baseless at all.

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David L... to Carol 2012/06/04 23:15:29

then what is it based on? certainly not observation.

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