May 15, 2011

GOP does not want voters to know what they really want to do to America



For a party that represents the views of only a small percentage of Americans, the Tea Party has taken center stage on Capitol Hill. However, recent polls have shown that Americans do not support the radical changes Tea Partiers like Paul Ryan have proposed, especially on issues like turning Medicare into a voucher program and increasing tax cuts for the rich. Rather than commit political suicide with their extreme radical views, Tea Party Republicans are beginning to hide their plans to transform the United States into a fascist, corporate run society.

At a recent press conference, Tea Party Republican governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) was asked by a reporter if he would “defy the state Supreme Court if it rules against him and orders him to restore $1.7 billion in funds for poor school districts?” According to NJ.com, Christie’s reply was ‘buzz off.” When asked about his views on evolution, Christie said, "None of your business."

Other extreme right wing republicans have been forced to back off on elements of the widely unpopular Paul Ryan budget plan after constituents lashed out at them at recent Town Hall meetings in their districts.

Many Americans are beginning to feel that the republicans won control of Congress under false pretenses and are misusing their power to promote corporate interests over public interests.

Cuts to education, health care and women’s rights in numerous states, as well as proposals on the federal level, are being offset by more tax cuts for the rich, blowing a hole in the argument that the GOP is working toward deficit reduction. In fact, redistribution of wealth plans and new policies that raise legal questions over individual rights, are adding more debt – not less.

Florida governor Rick Scott recently signed a bill that will cost taxpayers $5.8 million for random mandatory drug testing of public employees and anyone receiving public assistance. Furthermore, any savings Scott’s budget plan raises from cuts to education and health care for the poor are offset by corporate and property tax cuts.

Cases of shifting money from the poor to the rich are happening all over the country, as republicans prove that the path to prosperity will only make the wealthy prosper at the expense of everyone else. This is not what American’s voted for, but they seem powerless to stop the train wreck the Tea Party Republican’s are forcing down the throats of Americans under the guise of fiscal responsibility.

If this is what American’s are seeing from the GOP, what they are hiding is likely to be an even deeper assault on personal freedom and redistribution of wealth.

In reality, new republican laws are making the government bigger and more invasive than it has ever been before; quite the opposite of what the GOP claims to be their goal.


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