Just yesterday, the Veterans Affairs Committee held a hearing, where Deputy Secretary Gould of the Department of Veterans Affairs stated that because of the drastic budget cuts the Republicans are advocating and likely government shutdown, the veteran’s pension checks may not go out on time! Believe it or not, this is not an April Fool’s joke: at the same time that veteran’s checks will arrive late, the Republican Party wants to extend tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires! Just last December, we were forced to vote on extending the Bush Tax Cuts for millionaires and billionaires, adding $700 billion to our deficit!
The Republican plans for the FY 11 budget, as well as the new budget plan they released yesterday, is nothing more than reverse Robin Hood: taking from the poor and middle class to give huge tax breaks to the rich.
The Republican Party’s only concern appears to be destroying Medicare and block granting Medicaid, while at the same time cutting billions of dollars for job training programs, environmental protection, disease control, programs to assist homeless veterans; transportation and infrastructure (including high speed rail and Amtrak), crime protection, education programs and dozens of other critical areas for our country
You know, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. And the American people need to wake up to what my Republican colleagues are up to!