The Cuts Are Coming

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from Truthdig:



The Cuts Are Coming

Posted on Jan 16, 2011
By Bill Boyarsky


“Casino Jack,” the movie about crooked lobbyist Jack Abramoff, portrayed anti-tax demagogue Grover Norquist as just another member of the Washington fixer’s club. But the filmmakers greatly underestimated him.

Abramoff went off to prison while Norquist, who heads Americans for Tax Reform, has stayed around to twist the arms of legislators in every state in an effort to make them sign no-tax-increase pledges. Those pledges, if honored, would result in reductions in already dwindling appropriations for education and social welfare programs and many other needed services in states with huge deficits. “My goal,” Norquist famously said, “is to cut government in half in 25 years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”

He started Americans for Tax Reform during the Reagan administration. Later, he was a leading strategist of Republican Newt Gingrich’s takeover of the House in 1994. Over the years, Americans for Tax Reform has become the nation’s most effective anti-tax organization.

There’s an angry self-righteousness about the movement. Its members seem to see themselves as doing God’s work while the rest of us are sinners, especially the sinner-in-chief in the White House. But as Jesus said, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_cuts_are_coming_20110116/

[S M Tenneshaw]

1. A determined citizenry can stop him. Our way of life depends on it.

[rhett o rick]

2. sorry, we are doomed. nm

[unkachuck]

3. the corporations....

....have convinced many of us not to trust the government, but instead, to trust the untrustworthy corporations....as you travel through life, tally who's been fucking you more, the government or business?