If there's one thing I always thought rank and file Republicans would never abandon, it's the American people. Call them nationalists, call them misguided, debate their methods if you wish. But running through the GOP I grew up with was always a strong sense of loyalty to the USA. Not anymore. Republicans today can be accurately described as the Official Foreign Welfare Party, hell bent on creating welfare Sultans at our expense.
Reuters -- The Bush administration on Monday sought a cut of $4.9 billion, or 8 percent, in education, training, employment and social services grants ... the White House's five-year plan foresees $66 billion in cuts to Medicare, a program for the elderly, and $12 billion in cuts for Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor.
Reuters Alert -- As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on and their costs could hit $662 billion by the end of next year ... This year, fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total around $170 billion.
The neocons are paying for highways and bridges overseas, while ours fall into disrepair. Bush is using our money to build hospitals and cover healthcare for Iraqis, while cutting into Medicare and Medicaid and again leaving almost 50 million Americans without medical insurance. The Republican Budget earmarks exorbitant sums for security in Kabul and Baghdad, even as New Orleans flirts with lawlessness. How's that worked out so far?
Seattle Times -- Waxman wanted to know how the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could have shipped $12 billion in cash from the Federal Reserve in New York to Baghdad and handed it over to Iraqi ministries with only the sketchiest accounting controls. The cash, all 363 tons of it, was shrink-wrapped into $400,000 bricks and carried on C-130 cargo planes. "Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?"
Not content with funding foriegn reconstruction and healthcare for Iraqis while neglecting American families, the President and his budgetary Benedict Arnolds seem fit to blame America for their egregious errors of judgment. Just what country do these assholes think they're working for?
Mr. Bush, you are not the President of Iraq, you are not the Prime Minister of Afghanistan. You are not a clerk for the United Arab Emirates or Dubai Ports. GOP elected officials are not errand boys for Hezbollah in Baghdad. You work for We the People of These United States of America: For now anyway ...
Blogger's Note:
I agree with DarkSyde, if the US govt. wants to ship cash, they could save some postage and mail it to citizens within the good old US of A. The fact that they lost more than 8 billion of our tax dollars on this makes it even more laughable. This is it folks, these are the people handling our tax dollars. I feel more secure don't you?
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