COMMENTARY | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., put forth a bill in the Senate on Monday that calls for "shared sacrifice" by millionaires, according to Real Clear Politics. This comes while the still ongoing debt ceiling talks have yet to produce a deal to keep America from defaulting on its debts after August 2.
President Barack Obama continues to bend over backwards to appease the Republicans and tea partiers, proposing deeper cuts to social programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which would affect hospitals and beneficiaries, according to the Daily Mail. This while chief financial officers of S&P 500 companies saw in 2010 a 19 percent increase in pay to a median average of $2.9 million while American families' median income has fallen $2,500 per year over the last 10 years as stated in the "shared sacrifice" Senate bill.
Yet Republicans like House Speaker John Boehner continually spout public rhetoric against any tax increases, such as that it would make a bipartisan debt limit summit between Congress and Obama "fruitless," even as these same people demand more and more spending cuts, according to UPI.
The Republican and tea party philosophy is one that perversely prefers seeing this country go over a cliff financially (and taking the world with it) than see those who can afford to pay more in taxes pay even just a dollar more of out their precious piles of loot. What is it about money and making sure that rich people get and keep all they can get that is the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that also likes to espouse Christian values? This despite the biblical warning by Jesus about the "deceitfulness of wealth" that has poisoned the thinking of many of our lawmakers to the point of obsession and delusion.
If a deal on the debt ceiling isn't reached on or before Aug. 2, the responsibility will rest solely with many Republicans and tea partiers, whose greed, selfishness, disdain of the non-rich, and contempt for the founding principles of this nation based on compromise, will threaten the very existence of the America they claim to be so patriotic about.
