Tell
Me You Already Know About This.
 All
together now, class. What did the Republican
Party run on in the 2010 mid-terms?
That's right, class. Jobs.
So what is in the new Republican
budget proposal?
That's right, class. Massive unemployment.
In a move designed to appeal only to their base, I.E. the
staggeringly rich, House Republicans have authored a budget
proposal that would effectively dispose of over 100 government
agencies,
most
of which perform
vital
functions for our country as a whole. Programs like food inspection,
flood prevention, weatherization, education, mental health, police
employment, family planning and climate research, not to mention
Public Broadcasting.
You can see the whole list here.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman calls these programs "America's
seed corn" and I agree with him. Republicans would replace this comparatively
organic
approach to the social construct with their Monsanto alternative. Not good.
When reminded that this new budget would result in over a
million lost jobs Speaker John Boehner's response was
"So be it!"
So if your child gets sick from eating bad food, so be it.
If the dam breaks, so be it.
If there aren't enough police to maintain order, so be it.
If elderly people freeze to death this winter because they
can't afford their heating bills, so be it.
Meanwhile, Speaker Boehner is fighting to keep a half-billion
dollar fighter-jet engine project in his district. An engine
that the President and the Pentagon doesn't want. But it's
not about what we want or what we need, it's what Speaker
Boehner wants.
Like I said, this budget will never pass the Senate, much
less the president's veto pen. It's just a sordid little lesson
in politics by a party that could give two shits about
you.
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Rick Santorum is
considering running for president. That's all I'm saying.
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Tah-dah!
Today's comic is the 500th Raging Pencils. I hope you guys
and gals are having as much fun with it as I am.
=Lefty=
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