Jon Stewart slams GOP for lack of Joplin aid (Video)
source: http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/jon-stewart-slams-gop-for-not-providing-j...
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As Stewart points out, one of the ways that Cantor would like to pay for any new spending is to make dramatic cuts to Medicare through Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget plan. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the Cantor/Ryan plan would force seniors to pay much more for their health care in the coming years. Essentially, Cantor would like to pay for tornado aid by taking away the health care of “grandma” in the future.
The Democrats have proposed paying for the budget with tax increases on the rich. In Stewart’s analogy the rich are represented by the rich brother-in-law who could help the family out by sacrificing just a few percentage points out of his massive salary. However, Republicans have flatly rejected any tax increases in order to pay for the federal budget, including tax increases on the rich that would bring rates back in line with those in the 1990’s.
Finally, Stewart argues that the tornado aid could be paid for by not putting so much money into military spending which is represented by the “stealth tank” owned by dad. However, any cuts to defense spending have also been rejected by the GOP, who actually increased defense spending in the last budget despite slashing spending for other programs. As Stewart points out, the Republican priorities are akin to putting a new laser on “dad’s car” while the family house is still in shambles from the destructive tornado.
Stewart concludes by saying that actual elephants are more helpful to the people of Joplin than the Republican “elephants,” since a number of circus elephants actually helped clear debris in the area over the past few days.
Ryan Witt
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/jon-stewart-slams-gop-for-not...
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- GOP, Jon Stewart, Eric Cantor, Disaster Relief
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ingsoc1984
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As V wrote in his essay: this is a plutocracy, not a true democracy, Both sides of the asle are probably worth the wealth of 30 famlies each? 100? And like V says, we the voters have the choice between the good guy party and the bad guy party. In the end, they will both sell us out but one much more than the other. I wish that we had a social democracy here more like Canada or Israel. While even these countries have their problems, at least they recognize that a country should not be controlled by just two parties of humanist vs. anti-humanist plutocrats (demo-plutocrat vs. Republio-plutocrat). So here we go, bad guy Eric Kantor makes outrageous demands. Hopefully our lives will then be in the hands of a Democrat, hopefully not too blue. These new Republio-Plutocrats have staked out a far right poisition, hoping to drag the Demo-Plutocrats closer to their middle. We need to expose these extremists as the traitors that they are and demand much more progressive ideas from our good guy Demo-Plutocrats who have to be watched just as closely as we watch the bad guys because in the end, the rich will usually compromise and look out for their own class.
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ingsoc1984
