Tippecanoe and You Too!

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“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” was a famous and influential slogan during the 1840 Presidential Campaign. It’s lyrics sang the praises of Whig candidate John Tyler, while denigrating the incumbent Democrat Martin Van Buren, and it ’sang’ Tyler into the presidency. Republican Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan and his Republican majority are recreating the “Tippecanoe” lyrics within their GOP 2012 Budget Plan ‘singing the praises’ of the well to do while “denigrating” education, the middle class, the elderly, the unemployed and the poor!

The Republican plan calls for maintaining big time tax breaks for the very wealthy, corporations, oil companies, and powerful Republican campaign contribution interests while targeting spending cuts on social programs like education, Medicare health care for the elderly, Medicaid health care for the poor and disabled, nursing home care for indigent senior citizens, clean energy, building and repairing roads and bridges, and unemployment benefits.

There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT JOB CREATION in the Republican Budget Plan. Since Republicans campaigned heavily on job creation during the 2010 Midterms, wouldn’t you think that jobs would be a major focus in their 2012 Budget Plan?

When you create jobs you reduce the need for social safety net programs. When you create jobs, you help people work their way out of poverty. When you create jobs, you increase taxable revenues to decrease the deficit and fund education. When you create jobs you increase Medicare revenues. When you create jobs you reduce health care costs by increasing the number of individuals who can afford to buy it – the bigger the number of the insured, the smaller the number of dollars spent on Individual health care premiums.

The problem with the Republican 2010 Budget Plan is that their “canoe” is unbalanced in favor of the well to do while tipping on top of education, the middle class, the elderly, the unemployed and the poor!

Let Republican Lawmakers know what you think about their ‘canoe tipping’ 2012 Budget Plan.

Go to www.house.org www.senate.org www.congress.org . Tell REPUBLICAN Congressional Lawmakers to…

“Keep your 2010 Campaign promise. Balance your 2012 Budget on job creation and the well to do too.”

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1. Tyler was the Veep

Tippecanoe was Harrison a "war hero" who had won a battle against the indians at Tippecanoe. Tyler quickly became President though because Harrison died, I think he was the one who got sick after standing in the cold during his inauguration.