GOP 2012: Let Us Get Rid Of Medicare, Social Security And Public Schools For You!
by Dave Bradley
Well, the Republican Party that once stood proudly as the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower will now take this body of work to the voting public next year for its approval:1) We promise to destroy Medicare as you know it. Eventually we will destroy Medicare altogether. Buy insurance from our contributors or die.
2) We still plan to end Social Security. We will hook you up with a Wall Street betting account. Good luck.
3) Ending taxes for the rich is still our top priority. Make no doubt about that. If you make a million bucks a year, we got your back. Others need not apply.
4) We also plan to kill unions of all stripes by creating laws that make them impossible to organize or fund. Without unions and with outsourcing, American labor will be really cheap for business in the coming years. We really don’t care about jobs, just keeping labor costs low. Speaking of low cost labor – what do you think desperate 67 year olds will work for?
5) We want to put health care decisions back where they belong – in the hands of the insurance companies.
6) One group that should not be allowed to make their own medical decisions is women. They are the breeding material. After that, what good are they?
7) We intend to privatize everything that governments do today.
– Schools
– Utilities
– Roads and bridges.
– You name it we’ll privatize it.
8) We will continue to work hard to separate Americans into groups such as ethnic groups, religious groups and of course a special category for gays.
9) What the generals want, the generals get. No price is too high. Enlisted folks however are another story.
10) And don’t forget, we love God and Jesus.
I am sure most of you can come up with many more things to add to the list.
Yesterday I heard a term that seems to capture what the Republicans stand for. “Dollar voices” – the rich have very loud “Dollar Voices.” Well, if we can get ourselves together, we may not have louder “dollar voices” but we will have much louder and many times more real voices.
BTW, a thought crossed my mind this weekend. Remember how Republicans are always talking about states or districts being “laboratories of democracy” when there is a policy they want to stymie? The glaring example is their rhetoric on health care.
May I humbly suggest that we do that with Paul (serious) Ryan’s proposed budget in his district. Let us apply his suggestions (and others from his party) in his district. We can begin with Medicare vouchers for the elderly in his district. Then let’s cut back on Social Security. Next, let’s stop all that big gummint spending in his district, stop building and repairing them roads. Who needs the Post Office, let Fed Ex or UPS carry their mail. Let’s stop meat inspections. Surely there are many more gummint programs that can be slashed.
And it should be done soon, maybe by May 1, so we can assess the effects by next year.
Dave
Bradley
E-mail Dave here Dave Bradley is a self-described
retired observer of American politics “trying to figure out how we got
so screwed up.” An
Iowa City native currently living in West Liberty, Dave and his wife
Carol have two grown children who “sadly had to leave the state to find
decent paying jobs.“
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Great post, and your suggestion about using Paul Ryan's district as a test case for his proposals is brilliant. Can we add Michele Bachmann's district too?
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I would really love to add at least Steve King's. Bachmann's would be nice, but my kids may be in it after redistricting up there.
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