Romney/Ryan & The Broken Drawbridge

Those at the top should stay at the top.  Anyone else will not be able reach the top.  The Romney/Ryan ticket wants to lift the drawbridge on the rest of America.  Let's have another round of tax cuts to further separate the social classes.  Cut Medicaid.  Who needs health care?  That's just something for the wealthy.  Repeal Obamacare.  Raise the minimum age for Medicare.  Cut food stamps.  The poor don't need to eat. Why don't we put a freeze on Government wages until 2016? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/paul-ryan-poverty-speech_n_2010827.html

These afore-mentioned topics are all addressed in Paul Ryan's proposed budget.  What a winning plan.  It's a win/lose.  The rich win and everyone else loses.  Never has a GOP ticket been so brazen about screwing over so many Americans and suggested that doing so was a path to prosperity.  I normally stay out of politics, but this campaign has awoken the "give-a-shit" in me.

Upward mobility will go away very soon in America.  Other countries provide better opportunities to achieve the "American Dream."  Poverty will worsen as a result of the R/R budget.  40 million people will be frozen out of health insurance from the Medicaid reductions.  The food stamp program would reduce by $183 billion.  Turning a blind eye to the poor will not make the problems they face go away.  The destitute will become even more desperate with dwindling resources and many will turn to crime.  Locking up the poor will cost more than feeding them.

As bad as R & R will be for America, the real source of bad policy is congress.  The the radical right-wing has control of the House of Representatives and the Democrats hold a slight majority in the Senate.  The Senate Minority is able to block bills from even seeing the light of day by the threat of a filibuster.  Very little gets done under the current elected officials.  Bipartisanship is a dirty word.  The right does not believe in compromise.

The drawbridge needs to stay down for the rest of America.  The rules must not tilt in favor of so few.  A rising tide lifts all boats.  The more Americans who succeed the better.  Let us not hoard our pieces of the pie.