The cost of tax cuts to Americans in the top 1% is estimated at $3.4 Trillion over the next 75 years. The cost of Social Security over the next 75 years (by the very highest estimates) is $3.7 Trillion.
The President tells us we should give permanent tax cuts to the top 1% of Americans making millions of dollars a year, while reducing benefits to millions of America's elderly and poor.
The Administration is trying to convince us that poor millionaires in this country need the money more than our seniors. Millionaires and corporations are suffering and the elderly and poor are dragging our economy down. They see the poor, elderly and middle-class as the enemy and entitlements as giveaways to people who are too lazy to plan for their own future.
Shouldn't the measure of a society be how they provide for those least able to care for themselves? Since when did Americans get so greedy and mean? Why are we buying into welfare for mega-corporations and multi-millionaires but cuts in Social Security and Medicare?
Today, the poor are sending their children to fight and die, multi-millionaires and multi-billionaires are reaping the rewards from no-bid contracts, war profiteering and tax cuts. Millions of our tax dollars have simply disappeared in Iraq and our troops are still using plating out of wrecking yards to arm their vehicles. The American middle-class is being told that they should pay for it all, by allowing the government to rob a fund that we have paid into for our entire working lives.
The Administration is claiming that we need tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires because they create the jobs and put the money back into the economy? Where’s the proof of that? Aren’t corporations continuing to cut jobs and outsource them to other countries? How does that help the American worker?
Where is the honor among millionaires? Where is the honor among corporate billionaires? Why do they feel that they are entitled to reap the rewards of living in this great country without having to share in the hard times?
How can this Administration claim moral leadership when they consistently place the desires of billionaires above the needs of the American people? Even their supposed "Prescription Drug Benefit" benefits mega pharmaceutical companies more than seniors and adds $8.7 Trillion over 75 years to the deficit. Again, a corporate giveaway they want the middle-class to pay for.
Ask yourself, why should we pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires? Why should we pay for the cost of the war when corporations are reaping huge profits on no-bid contracts? Which oil companies will reap the profits from the Iraq oil fields? Where did that money go in Iraq and why aren’t our troops properly armed. Who’s getting rich off this war and who’s going to pay? Who’s going to pay for the runaway spending by this Administration? Why are we standing by while they drive the country into bankruptcy?
Is the President a compassionate conservative. From what I can see, he’s neither compassionate or conservative and he is definitely not a real Republican!