Compassionate Conservatism is on life support. Any one who doubts whether or not there is a war against the poor led by the Republicans needs to carefully read the following report. WASHINGTON [April,27,2012] -The latest Republican plan to reconcile the budget and preserve defense spending extracts even deeper cuts from programs to help the poor and Americans still reeling from the recession.
Although spending levels for the budget were set in the Budget Control Act passed last summer in the deal to raise the nation's debt limit, Republicans are pushing ahead with another plan that cuts more while trying to prevent the beginning of $600 billion in cuts over 10 years to the growth of the defense budget.
They are doing so because the Super Committee, which was supposed to find $1.2 trillion in cuts on which everyone could agree, failed, leaving the slashing up to a pre-agreed sequestration plan that extracts half the savings from the military.
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The one good thing about this event is the fact that the Presidential election presents a clear choice of the country's valuation of priority rankings. In this case Americans must weigh in for either a heavily lobbied military industrial complex or an under - lobbied, largely overlooked groups including the poor, handicapped, aged, and students.
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