Only in America: It Takes Courage to Give Wealthy Tax Breaks and Cut Services to Poor

"Kicking the can has been trumped by kicking the middle and lower classes to the curb. This piece of reheated Heritage Foundation plutocratic billet-doux is deemed serious and courageous by the corpress. It is more shameless than serious, more craven to bankrollers than courageous."

------Justitia Green

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In the United States circa 2011 it takes no courage to ask those who do not fund political action committees to "tighten their belts" while granting corporations and wealthy elites who do fund them lower tax burdens. Kicking the middle and lower classes in the teeth while rewarding the wealthy elites is cowardly and plays to the corpress and corporate funded think tanks. It is a serious affront to any person concerned about the just distribution of sharing the burden of cuts during an economic downturn and enormous deficit. Extending and increasing tax breaks for corporations and the upper tax brackets is merely another distribution of wealth from the middle and lower classes up to the wealthy--a trend that has been unbroken since 1980. Ryan's Budget Plan is an attempt to enshrine the status quo of record income inequality and less burden sharing by elites. He offers tax breaks to corporations when their profits and executive compensation are at record highs. He believes tax cuts for the rich create jobs and spur investment. We have had tax cuts for the upper brackets and corporations for a decade and all we see is higher real unemployment and stagnant wages. How can anyone take his Gilded Age friendly budget seriously? Another laugher is privatizing medicare in an attempt to lower costs for seniors by implementing a voucher system! Does he realize the Insurance Cartels and Big Pharma are the two pillars of price gouging and egregious waste in our Healthcare System? American Political discourse has been so cheapened that a half assed panegyric to plutocracy disguised as a serious budget plan, with fantastic expectations of job and GDP growth reminiscent of the Real Estate Bubble cheerleaders never countenancing a downturn in housing prices, and, furthermore, to expect these increases to magically arise from lowering tax rates for corporations and wealthy elites with vague promises of erasing loopholes. So much empty promise, very little detail. The big details are "tax cuts for corporations, investments and wealthiest" and "spending cuts for social programs, mainly education, women's health care and services to poor." When it is considered brave to ask more from the poor while the rich have never been richer and paid less then we have a psychotic culture that punishes the weakest to give the wealthiest more breaks. And, of course, he does not touch military expenditures. Very courageous of him......Of course it is unnecessary to cut government subsidizing the two largest welfare queens on this planet, the Pentagon and the US Investment Banking system, hilarious and craven.

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A catharsis of cravenness and ideology fashions a budget unable to touch the parasitism that creates and geometrically inflates our deficit. For a man who boasts he's great at number crunching this inability originates in stupidity or fealty. This parasitism sucks the wealth from many nations, including our own, into a few hands. Nice to know it's courageous and serious to back the plutocrats. Rep. Ryan would have made a great Medieval tax collector.