House Republicans unveiled a budget blueprint proposing trillions in spending cuts over 10 years, targeting steep reductions to Medicaid and food assistance programs. The plan seeks $2 trillion in Medicaid cuts and $800 billion from SNAP. It also calls for establishing a commission to propose changes to Social Security and Medicare. Democrats criticized the proposal as pushing “cruel cuts” that will hurt access to healthcare and raise costs for many. If enacted, the budget would slash nearly $5 trillion from discretionary spending and $9 trillion from mandatory programs over a decade. However, the proposal is unlikely to become law given Democratic control of the Senate. The resolution indicates Republicans remain committed to large cuts across many public services and low-income programs.
Is this the same GOP that’s worried about losing ‘trillions and trillions of dollars’ over ‘a tiny fraction of CO2 in the atmosphere’ in the name of climate change? They truly are a bunch of devilish scumbags without whom the world would be infinitely more pleasant.
Republicans want to punish the poor… but tax cuts for the filthy rich… such pieces of shit, I sure hope the karma train runs over these motherfuckers
How about we cut the salaries of all elected officials in DC to zero? They don’t work for us so why should they get paid out of our tax dollars? They get paid plenty by whoring themselves to the highest bidder.
The solution is to create a system where their political prostitution is both illegal and unnecessary.
That’s the only way you get to shift politicians into working for “the people” and not their backers.
Obviously not a guarantee, but if they could stop spending 40% of their time worrying about being re-elected and financing their re-election that would probably be a boon. Maybe they could even read some of the legislation they’re passing.
Even after fixing this issue you have the other one where you have a shitload of politicians which seems to be members of a cult, not a political organization and millions of Americans voting for them.
Because this only harms the ones who aren’t corrupt and doesn’t do anything for the ones who are corrupt.
What they should be doing is getting rid of lobbying and disallowing corporate and business interests in politics, but we fucked that up decades ago, so I’ll settle for forcing politicians to wear tracksuits that have patches from every single person and company that had paid them.
No.
The elected officials who actually give a shit about you and are trying to help aren’t millionaires and this will severely impact them.
The elected officials who don’t give a shit if you die starving in the gutter are already millionaires and won’t give a shit about their salary.
The actual answer is that not paying your public officials makes them even more susceptible to corruption.
How the fuck aren’t you guys hunting them for sport
They won’t be able to pass it and even if they did it will go nowhere in the Senate. They know this. There will be a shutdown.
