••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Thursday, December 22, 2005

gops brag about passing deficit "reduction" bill

yes, tho 5 gops crossed the aisle so vp "darth" cheney had to cut short his asia trip to break a 50-50 tie in his role as senate prez, a gang of leading gops got the chance to go before tv cameras yesterday and castigate dems for trying to block deficit reduction.

what they never mentioned is that their "reduction" will actually raise the deficit, since the $40B in cuts dems opposed—mostly in medicaid, medicare, and student loans—is more than offset by a $70B tax cut gops no doubt will crow about in the next election campaign, tho over half of it goes to folk with incomes above $1M a year.

all told, the new budget will raise the national debt by $700B in its first year and more than $600B annually for 5 years. that's at least 3 trillion bucks more debt we the people will have to pay interest on when congress is forced to raise taxes.

that more responsible future congress will likely have a dem majority gops will attack for raising taxes, and we the people will likely vote for those gops.

meantime, the gop service cuts will hurt the folk who most need those services, and this country will slide further down the slope toward mediocrity.

will we the people ever see thru the never-ending gop con? i doubt it.

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