It is not so much a
budget as it is a declaration. A continuing resolution on the part of
the Republican party to wage war, both abroad and at home.
This
is a political animal who looks for myriad ways to fund our department
of defense, to be ready for the next battle. Despite the fact that we
are a nation weary of bringing back our dead and our physically and
psychologically wounded from conflicts that have gained us little but
ever growing enmity, the Republican psyche requires that we carry a big
stick and a big price tag for all our toys.
In our own
country, there is the perpetual cry by the right (and how ironic that
such a word should have any attachment to this group) to undercut the
underclass, to find ways to diminish their existence and to make them feel
they do not warrant a fair and decent life. Their health care rights
attacked, their unemployment benefits slashed, their access to
entitlements (and how ironic that such a word is deemed by the
Republican party to be infected with such a negative connotation)
forever threatened or removed, their very being treated like a
stain upon this nation.
The Republican position on the
proposed budget is not a matter of semantics or numbers, but a statement
of contempt for those who do not fit under their definition of
acceptable. It is a call to prepare to terminate enemies both foreign
and domestic, not to protect the welfare of our nation but to line the
pockets of the wealthy at the very heavy expense of the poor and the
weak.
It is a budget that once more establishes the
ugliness and moral shortcomings of the party that somehow has turned its
own brand of fear and hate mongering into a position of power and
control in the Congress of the United States.
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