Republicans to the poor: How can I use Katrina to ream you? Let me count the ways.
posted by
Wally
11:35 AM
So unka kkkarl is using Katrina as an excuse to push through the guest worker program, while the republican leadership in Congress is simultaneously pushing for still more of their typically draconian benefit cuts to those who are already desperately in need of assistance. This is the same game they played so successfully after 9/11, using their utter failure to protect us to enact the Patriot Act and other legislation to rob us of our rights and liberties. Now they are using another absolute failure - the destruction of an entire region, to rob the poor of what little they have left. But will they ever touch the humongous tax cuts for the top 2% richest people in the country? HELL NO!! That would be unfair! Unfair? UNFAIR? These guys must have a different definition of unfair in their dictionary than I do. These guys are Robin Hood in reverse. Hopefully this time a democrat or two will find the stones to smack them down and point out what they're doing before it's too late. Don't hold your breath on that.
Here's some of the deets, as I see them (which you could get from reading the articles on our main page on 9/23). rove is trying to take advantage of the confusion of the Katrina aftermath to push through more shitty proposals to screw everyone except the richest of the rich. And by the way, am I the only one who sees a pattern here? Allow confusion to reign after a disaster, or even encourage it, and then use that confusion to ramrod shitty controversial legislation through that would otherwise be ridiculed for being completely retarded (kind of like Dookie and I do to Clyde).
This time, he is once again bringing forward the "guest worker program" that, a year or so ago, was pretty much laughed at as ludicrous by Congress, the media, and even the illegal immigrants it was "supposed" to help. This would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country for up to three years before being stuffed in to containers and shipped back home. This dovetails nicely with the rich spoiled, cry-baby-in-chief rescinding the Bacon-Davis Act last week (Bacon-Davis guarantees that contractors pay the prevailing local wages to their workers on government jobs). How convenient that now Halliburton can legally hire illegal immigrants rebuild the Gulf Coast, legally pay them minimum wage (or less), and reap billions in profits (on the taxpayer tab, of course).
What happens to all the people who live along the Gulf Coast, in the devastated regions, who need good paying jobs to get back on their feet and put their lives back together? What happens to the refugees when they return to the shambles of their homes in hopes of rebuilding? They, apparently, can all go to hell. Once they go bankrupt - oh wait, they can't declare bankruptcy anymore thanks to the new republican bankruptcy law (written by the credit banking industry) that goes into effect October 10 - so once they lose their homes and everything they own, bush's rich pals can buy up all the primo land for a song and hire the illegals at minimum wage or less to build their huge plush new vacation mansions. Then they can hire the poor (and often black) people who used to live there to be their housekeepers, cooks, maids, and servants. Gosh, it'll be just like in the old days, won't it?
Add to that the spending cuts (past and proposed) on healthcare and medicare and head start and after school programs and Pell grants and welfare benefits and social security and... fuck... can it be any more obvious how the republicans are screwing the poor, especially in these devastated areas, in every way possible. After these people lost everything they've got, the republicans are determined to take even more from them. Meantime, where the fuck are the filthy rich sonsabitches in this equation? What is cheney sacrificing in his (ahem) service to his country? What has dumbya sacrificed? Hell, he won't even cut short his goddamn vacation. Let's see some examples of sacrifice from our alleged "leaders." All we've seen so far is pathetic attempts at lip service. They tell us WE need to sacrifice for the good of the country, while we watch dickhead playing golf and guitar, and we try to figure out if cheney's dead yet, and if he's not dead, where the fuck is he in this time of national disaster? Pop quiz: those of you who still have jobs - if your boss had no clue where you were for weeks at a time, how long would you be employed? cheney works for US, the citizens of the United States. We pay his salary with our tax dollars. It's about time we fire his sorry lazy greedy arrogant smirking ass for excessive absenteeism. bush too for that matter.
Meantime, the impoverished U.S. citizens are getting help, without even asking for it, from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, in the form of cheap heating oil for poor neighborhoods. How pathetic, sick, twisted, and disgusting is it that citizens of the wealthiest nation in the history of the world have to look to foreign countries to help them make it through the winter? It's enough to make me sick.
Where's Clyde and Dookie? I need a fucking drink.
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