source http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributor/3605
According to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and House minority leader John Boehner:
1. Americans don't want affordable health care for all citizens and they don't want to close the Medicare prescription drug Part D doughnut hole that requires seniors on fixed incomes to pay the full cost of the pharmaceutical industry's obscenely high drug prices.
2. Americans don't want to rid the Medicare Part D (totally unfunded by the way) mandate that forbids the federal government from negotiating lower prescription drug costs.
3. Americans don't want banking and finance reform which during the 8-year Bush-Cheney reign allowed the Wall Street hucksters and Ponzi scheme swindlers to run amok with no regulation or oversight.
4. Americans don't want the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of citizens to expire. The tax cuts, according to the non partisan Congressional Budget Office will allow the federal deficit to balloon by an additional $3 trillion.
5. Americans don't want to see a stop to the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to India, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia and other cheap labor countries.
6. Americans don't want to extend unemployment benefits to millions of out-of-work people who Republicans call "lazy bums" no matter how hard those jobless Americans are looking.
7. Americans don't want an end to the Bush-Cheney wars which enrich the powerful defense contractors. After all, Americans realize that Xe (once known as Blackwater) mercenary army doesn't want to be weaned off of the lucrative, no-bid, no-accountable government contracts that perpetuate the military industrial complex.
8. Americans don't want Social Security because the Republicans believe that it should "wither and die on the vine."
Of course, it is well-documented that they want to privatize it.
9. Americans don't want to prohibit health insurance companies from refusing and discriminating against citizens for preexisting illnesses and health conditions.
10. Americans don't want environmental regulations that protect the lives, health, security and welfare of the public.
11. Americans don't want any cuts in the bloated military industrial complex's $700 billion per year appropriations because it might reduce the numbers of retired generals and admirals who sit on the boards of defense contractors.
12. Americans don't want cuts in subsidies to corn-ethanol growers, Big Coal, Big Oil and their lobbyists who fight tooth and nail to kill all global warming and climate change legislation, spreading the lie that global warming is just a liberal myth.
Ethanol alone receives almost $6 billion per year in taxpayer subsidies that result in higher food costs and higher costs to feed livestock. Even though it is indisputable that ethanol is 25% less efficient as a fuel the lobbyists for Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland, the two behemoth agribusinesses that monopolize the market, have been successful in imposing a 54-cent per gallon tariff on the less expensive, more efficient Brazilian bio-fuel made from sugar cane.
13. Americans don't want fair and livable wages for their labor. They would rather work longer hours for less pay so that the pay gap between the affluent and the poor gets wider each year.
I could compile a much longer list but these are just some examples of how impotent and self-serving our government leaders have become and the shameful state in which we find ourselves today.
Since Day One when Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States all we have seen from the Republican Party is Obstruction, Division, Fear, Paranoia, Bigotry and everything short of armed rebellion and usurpation of our democratically-elected government.
We have been duped into thinking that forcing more people into poverty in one of the richest countries in the world is a forgone conclusion. This philosophy has been foisted on us by an astonishingly morally depraved Republican Party of No whose concern is only for the wealthy and privileged who presume that they alone have been ordained to rule like kings and princes over their subjects.
Machiavelli wrote in "The Prince," "Hence, we may learn the lesson that on seizing a state, the usurper should make haste to inflict what injuries he must, at a stroke, that he may not have to renew them daily."
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, along with the entire Republican Party of No and their Tea Party spawn, are pulling off one of the biggest political coups in history. It is a malignant political mind-set that even Niccolo Machiavelli would be proud of.
"The Republican Party of No" covenant against America is not just a Blood Oath; it is an unmitigated plan for Butchery.
In two months we will know who the winners and losers will be: The McConnell/Boehner Republican Party of No and their Koch brothers-funded Tea Party spawn or the American people.
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