Our Worthless Congress

Can the Senate and Obama be trusted to do the right thing?

The US House of Representatives has adopted a budget resolution that calls for privatization of Medicare and the elimination of Medicaid, food stamps and many other federal entitlement benefits. The resolution is part of a bipartisan campaign to slash spending on social programs.

All but ten of the Republican majority in the House backed the resolution—and those ten wanted even bigger cuts. All Democrats voted against the resolution, while offering their own proposals that called for somewhat less drastic cuts in spending and token tax increases on the wealthy.

Not a single resolution was offered that called for increasing spending to meet social needs as the American economy staggers through a fifth year of economic slump and mass unemployment.

The "people's body" is out to destroy the American working and middle classes, not to mention kill the poor and elderly.

This moron Ryan is too young and too intoxicated with Ayn Rand nonsense to remember the reason those programs were put in: It's because the private sector wouldn't do it.