There has been much talk in Washington about the need for "shared sacrifice" with the meaning being that no one group should be disproportionately affected by the decisions made. Recently, Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, claimed that it's "rather pathetic" that millionaires and billionaires need to sacrifice also. At this point I could just leave this post as a summary and I think it would speak for itself. However, it is quintessential Republican speak and needs to be called out.
Republicans seem to believe that by deficit reduction, that means that cuts to education, infrastructure, green technology, cancer research, and other programs like this are the key to getting it down. People who need help the most are going to get it the least. Why? Because of the religion of no raising taxes. It seems to be better under a Republican perspective to decrease the quality of education and infrastructure in order to help Bill Gates and Warren Buffet stay filthy rich. Roads and bridges are falling apart but that is of no consequence. People are dying of cancer, but that is not a sufficient reason to invest more in the research. And our planet is warming due to human activity, but the Republicans say it's a myth(majority of scientists who actually understand it would disagree).
It seems that what is TRULY pathetic is that Jeff Sessions would protect CEOs and corporate profits at the expensive of society as a whole. Kids educations and future are not the focus, only the greed and profits of unrestrained capitalism. Jeff Sessions should apologize to those kids and cancer victims he so abhorrently seems to see as insignificant.
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