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Republican Values

Last night, if you weren't watching the Boy in the Bubble, then you should have been watching CSPAN and the final vote on the consolidated Budget conference bill in the House and the Senate. The conference bill passed both bodies along a wholly party line: no Democrat voted for this budget. Let me say that again: the GOP could not get a single Democrat to vote for their budget resolution, and in fact three Senators defected - . Senators Voinovich and DeWine from Ohio, and Sen.Chafee of Rhode Island. This is a wholly Republican owned budget - which is nice because it will be a good weapon in 2006 and 2008. This is why, illustrated by this NY Times article, Congress Passes Budget With Cuts in Medicaid and in Taxes:

The House and Senate broke a lengthy impasse over federal spending Thursday night, narrowly adopting a $2.56 trillion federal budget for 2006 that aims to trim the growth of Medicaid by $10 billion over five years, add $106 billion in tax cuts and clear the way for oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge.

From now on when anyone of the conservative flavor talks up "moral values" or "values" I'm going to use this as an example negating the GOP. Republicans cut $50 billion from the literally sick and poor and added $106 billion in tax cuts for the rich. Reverse Robin Hood does not begin to explain this act of taking money from the poor by cutting Medicare and then letting Paris Hilton run free by eliminating the Estate Tax and cutting more taxes.

Funny, I thought last time the President cut taxes we were going to be propelled into some sort of Free Trade/Efficient Market paradise. From the descriptions of our future lives such luminaries as Alan Greenspan to the President gave, each citizen would save so much money and the economy would rebound so quickly, that the Scrooge McDuck Money Bin builder-business seemed like a good career move. I always kicked myself for never sending away for my Duck Tales volume-set in order to study the Money Bin, in all of its' cartoon glory, which would have been in such high demand. The future was ours for the taking, just pass some more tax cuts.

But, of course this headline says it all: Economy's pace slowest in 2 years. The economy is, to put it nicely, "soft," and those tax cuts really worked out well, Mr. President. I want my Money Bin which was promised to me, but all I got was higher State Taxes and less services from the government. Funny how that is.

But dreams of swimming through piles of yellow coins in my unrealized Money Bin isn't what I'm concerned about. Last time I checked, Jesus was concerned about the sick and marginalized, not about drilling for oil in Alaska or cutting taxes for the rich. But who am I to judge such "Christian" men as Tom Delay?

So thank you GOP for showing us what your real values are.

Republican Values

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