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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Ryan Budget Will Be Like Nuclear Bomb Destroying Everything. McDonnell Supports.
It may be hyperbole but we will know the true face of the GOP. Ryan has the power and cooperation of McConnell to destroy all government as we know it. I look for privatization of Medicare and Social Security or severe cuts. Look for block granting Medicaid that will eventually force parents children to pay for parents long term care. Massive increase in military and massive cuts in most federal agencies. Massive tax give aways to the 1%. And privatizations and contracting out most federal jobs. The GOP wants massive devolution of federal authority to the states.
The GOP is wholly owned by the Kochs. This election was bought and paid for 100%. And that reality is more obvious in retrospect. It really was a coup. And Ryan is 100% the Koch's boy. So far based on the votes on the new cabinet the GOP is a SOLID BLOCK owned by the billionaires.
So Trump voters really did us all in.
So unless we can change their minds we have a problem.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,983 posts)NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)They should not be able to leave their offices, homes, etc. without facing constituents and protesters making their disgust very, very clear. That is the only way they are ever going to smarten up.
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)All those "I got mine f*ck you" voters will get their pennies and healthcare. But the rest of us who have yet to retire will likely see Medicare voucherized (useless) and Social security checks up to 20% smaller than otherwise + retirement age at 70 for those younger than 55.
THAT is how they're going to pay for the billonaire tax cuts - take it out of the hides of the middle class, elderly, poor, women.