If their recent Votes are any indication, Republicans have no use for ...
Medicaid, Food Stamps, Eduction, Job Training, Student Grants, Unemployment Insurance, the Minimum Wage.
By their Votes (and their
blocking of Votes), they are saying that
they have NO Problem slashing funds from programs that actually help
Americans in Need; you know those Americans stuck in the
"lower end of the income scale" ...
Chairman Ryan Gets 62 Percent of His Huge Budget Cuts from Programs for Lower-Income Americans
by Kelsey Merrick and Jim Horney, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities -- March 23, 2012
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Total cuts in low-income programs (including cuts in both discretionary and entitlement programs) appear likely to account for at least $3.3 trillion -- or 62 percent -- of Chairman Ryan’s total budget cuts, and probably significantly more than that; as explained below, our assumptions regarding the size of the low-income cuts are conservative. The $3.3 trillion includes the following four categories of cuts:
* $2.4 trillion in reductions from Medicaid and other health care for people with low or moderate incomes. [...]
* $134 billion in cuts to SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. If Chairman Ryan’s proposed SNAP savings were achieved entirely through eligibility cuts, between 8 and 10 million people would be knocked off the program.[1]
* At least $463 billion in cuts in mandatory programs serving low-income Americans (other than Medicaid and SNAP). [...] This likely substantially understates the cuts that the plan would make in low-income programs. The Ryan documents show that $758 billion in cuts would come from mandatory programs just in the income security portion of the budget (function 600), and the bulk of the mandatory spending in that category goes for low-income programs. The documents also show $166 billion in mandatory cuts in the education, training, employment, and social services portion of the budget (function 500), which, based on the discussion in the Ryan budget documents, would likely come mainly from the mandatory portion of the Pell Grant program for low-income students.
* At least $291 billion in cuts in low-income discretionary programs. [...]
[...] When faced with the choice of which specific programs to cut, policymakers are not likely to cut much from a number of the non-low-income programs in these budget categories that are popular, such as veterans’ disability compensation, veterans’ health, the FBI, and cancer research. That means that other programs -- including low-income programs -- would have to be cut by more than their proportionate share.
219 Republicans in the House voted YES for these drastic cuts, contained in the Ryan Budget. The 12 Republicans who voted No, did so because that draconian Budget "was not conservative enough."
You see, Republicans have no use for Americans in Need.
In need of Education, in need of Jobs, in need of Health Care, in need of Food.
In need of a bit more than Poverty Wages, assuming you're lucky enough to find a job.
No use for it. None at all.
The Republicans are NOT about helping people. That's just not their gig.
THIS, is their "gig" ...
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They DO have Use for this ...
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In fact, that's the ONE thing, they excel at. Just don't expect them to be able to "explain why."
You see, the Republicans have no use for consistent explanations, either.