Grassroots: Take Back the Narrative

From The Progressive Populist:

The Republican Party has a message to America’s poor: You’re on you’re own.

House Republicans joined the effort in July, unveiling a budget resolution that the Associated Press says “proposes trillions of dollars in cuts to the social safety net and other domestic programs while sharply boosting military spending,” a budget blueprint that is consistent with one unveiled by the president earlier this year, even if the numbers might differ.

The GOP House plan calls for about $200 billion in benefit cuts, along with “trillions of dollars in cuts to the social safety net and other domestic programs,” according to the AP. It also proposes Medicare “reform” — or the dismantling of the current program in favor of a voucher plan.

It’s unclear whether the budget plan can get through the House, given reports of conflicting priorities among Republican lawmakers, but the conflicts are less about broad priorities and more about specific numbers. There appears to be broad agreement in the party on the outlines of the plan: Gut the social safety net and consolidate tax brackets as a way to cut taxes for the wealthy.

Which is exactly what the Trump teams wants to see.

 To read the full Grassroots column, go to The Progressive Populist, August 15, 2017.

Email me at grassroots at comcast dot net.
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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

One thought on “Grassroots: Take Back the Narrative”

  1. Sadly, we have had a right wing/libertarian take over of our government, a peaceful ideological coup d'etat. The libertarian/rightwing dogma and agenda is total BS crap and claptrap that's beneficial to billionaires and toxic sludge for the poor and the working class Americans. There are enough useful idiots and morons who subscribe to this filth and so keep voting against their own best interests. Many of these libertarian useful idiots have no problem taking Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If not for these social programs these libertarian fools would be in very bad straits. Libertarianism is the worst piece of fecal matter on the earth. It's great for billionaires but the worst for the 99% of Americans. The most important thing for libertarian fools is to lower the taxes of Steve Forbes and to kill off all the social programs so that the poor can go begging in the streets for charity. Ha, ha, it's not funny. We need universal health care NOW!!!! But it will never happen with the right wingers in control.

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