Republicans have been shouting "class warfare" for some time now and to be honest, I was mostly wishing it would be true. I wish we would rise up and say, THIS JUST ISN'T FAIR. Inequality in the United States has gotten out of control and the decisions we make about taxes, banks, and debt are not just finanical decisions, but also moral ones.
A worker with a college education is less likely to have employer health insurance today than a worker with a high school education was in 1979. Between 1979 and 2005 the top .1% of Americans saw their incomes grow 400%.
And even though we now have Occupy Wall Street, the truth is that class warfare isn't coming from below - it's coming from above. It's coming from millionaires and billionaires and their Republican allies in Congress who are fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their bags and bags of money. And don't for a second believe they're going to back down anytime soon.
Every single Republican candidate for President said they would have rejected a debt deal that included $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. Not a single Republican was willing to break a filibuster on an infrastructure spending bill that would be paid in full by a .7% tax surcharge on incomes over $1,000,000.
The result? A reduced credit rating. No new roads. No new jobs. Gobs and gobs of money for the top 1%.
You want to talk about partisanship in government? Democrats are tripping over themselves to compromise away all the things their base cares about, while Republicans will die fighting a one cent tax increase. I want to pull my hair out just thinking about it.
And the worst part is that after killing every job creation idea that comes across the table, Republicans will cry about how Obama hasn't fixed the economy come election time. I am here to tell you do not believe the lies.
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