THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

President Obama at the White House after averting a government shutdown last Friday (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republicans, how do I hate thee, let me count the ways.

If the 2010 election taught us anything is that the American voter went to the polls and expressed their desire for jobs and to improve the economy. The voters did not bargain for a continuation of the delays, obstruction and overt sabotage the Republicans had been engaged in for the past two years. What stands even clearer is that when those voters spoke through the polls it wasn’t for the Republicans to interpret their intent to conduct either a CULTURE WAR or a CLASS WAR…this was the furthest thing from everyone’s minds.

But let the chips fall where they may and now that the bandido has been unmasked we see what the Republican-Teahadists are really all about and what their aim is: To destroy job growth, to compromise economic growth and to make people as miserable as possible in the hopes that their frustrations would translate into a victory in 2012.And as Speaker Boehner puts it: “If we lose 700,000 jobs, SO BE IT”

But the American people, as naïve and uninformed as they have been traditionally; could be gullible and vote irresponsible only for so long and be fooled one too many times. This is where the Republicans stand presently; this is the reality they are going to have to face in 2012.

It takes testicular fortitude to divorce themselves from the mess they created; it takes a perverse agenda to not even help in cleaning up that mess and help to get the country on a prosperous track. Furthermore, the Republicans have embarked on a scorch-earth attack on the middle class and the poor.

Suffice it to say that the Republican-Teahadists had already alienated Blacks, Hispanics, Gays and women. Then came their attacks on labor unions and Planned Parenthood which is nothing less than a direct affront and attack on women’s reproductive rights and to deny millions of some basic health care.

All the while, the Republican-Teahadists keep insisting in playing this game of Russian roulette where the very rich and the corporations get tax breaks they don’t need and deserve even less. The immorality of that ideology has now been placed into question.

Let’s see now; BLACKS, HISPANICS, GAYS, WOMEN, UNION MEMBERS, SENIORS, COLLEGE STUDENTS, MUSLIMS, GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES, THE UNEMPLOYED, HOME FORECLOSURE VICTIMS, PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS AND SAVINGS IN THE WALL STREET CRASH, THE DISABLED AND THOSE WHO ARE HANDICAPPED…and the list goes on.

In view of this, we can only ask ourselves this question: Who are the Republican-Teahadist left with? And the answer may be so brief: Fundamentalist-Evangelicals and the very wealthy and corporations…period, that’s it.

So in conclusion, let’s see what the elections will tell us in 2012; because if I am right the devastating defeat of any and all Republicans is going to happen…not if but when. The American people will be so energized, so pissed off at Republicans that their overwhelming and crushing defeat will be a train wreck of gargantuan proportions.Wisconsin demonstrations have shown us but a small sample of Americans taking the bull by the horn...or the Elephant by its trunk as the case may be

The People's Budget

Raúl M. Grijalva, one tough Latino, the WASPHROMs* worst enemy…he is the Republican’s lawn man with an education, the waiter elected to Congress, the janitor who has become an activist, Abuelito Raul is the grandpa you go for Sunday Chile con carne; he is us, he is that and much more.

· WASPHROM: White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Heterosexual, Rich Old Men.

Progressive Caucus People's Budget FY12 Memorandum

Eliminates National Deficit by 2021

Read the People's Budget

Progressive Caucus co-chairs Raúl M. Grijalva and Keith Ellison sent a memo to House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen April 6 outlining the Caucus' top budget priorities. The letter and attached budget information are available at this link. An op-ed by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University endorsing the People's Budget is available at this link (off-site).

The Congressional Progressive Caucus has put out a People's Budget to counter the GOP budget proposal. The highlights of this proposal are:

The CPC budget:
• Eliminates the deficits and creates a surplus
• Puts America back to work with a “Make it in America” jobs program
• Protects the social safety net
• Ends the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
• Is FAIR (Fixing America’s Inequality Responsibly)

To summarize what our budget accomplishes:
• Primary budget balance by 2014.
• Budget surplus by 2021.
• Reduce public debt as a share of GDP to 64.4% by 2021, down 16.9 percentage points from
a baseline fully adjusted for both the doc fix and the AMT patch.
• Reduce deficits by $5.7 trillion over 2012-21
• Both outlays and revenue equal 22.3% of GDP by 2021.

Breakdown of Policies
Individual income tax policies
1. Extend marriage relief, credits, and incentives for children, families, and education, but
let the upper-income tax cuts expire and let tax brackets revert to Clinton-era rates
2. Index the AMT for inflation for a decade (AMT patch paid for)
3. Rescind the upper-income tax cuts in the tax deal
4. Schakowsky millionaire tax rates proposal (adding 45%, 46%, and 47% top rates)
5. Progressive estate tax (Sanders estate tax, repeal of Kyl-Lincoln)
6. Tax capital gains and qualified dividends as ordinary income

Corporate tax reform
1. Tax U.S. corporate foreign income as it is earned
2. Eliminate corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies
3. Enact a financial crisis responsibility fee
4. Financial speculation tax (derivatives, foreign exchange)

Health care
1. Enact a public option
2. Negotiate Rx payments with pharmaceutical companies
3. CMS program integrity and other Medicare and Medicaid savings in the president’s
budget.
4. Prevent a cut in Medicare physician payments for a decade (maintain doc fix)

Social Security
1. Raise the taxable maximum on the employee side to 90% of earnings and eliminate the
taxable maximum on the employer side
2. Increase benefits based on higher contributions on the employee side
Defense savings
1. End overseas contingency operations emergency supplementals starting in 2013,
providing $170 billion in FY2012 funding for withdrawal
2. Reduce baseline Defense spending by reducing strategic capabilities, conventional
forces, procurement, and R&D programs

Job Creation
1. Invest $1.45 trillion in job creation, early childhood, K-12 and special education, quality
child care, energy and broadband infrastructure, housing, and R&D
2. Infrastructure bank
3. Surface transportation reauthorization bill
4. Finance surface transportation reauthorization

The "liberal" mainstream media has been all over the GOP proposal. Where are they for this liberal democratic proposal?

Posted by Jerry Critter

SOURCE: http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=its_only_going_to_get_worse