Harry Reid Says: Class Warfare, Bring it On Baby

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Thu Nov-03-05 08:51 PM
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Harry Reid Says: Class Warfare, Bring it On Baby

Well, I’m paraphrasing a bit there, but Harry Reid sounded like a real Democrat in his floor speech attacking the immoral piece of garbage otherwise known as the “Republican budget reconciliation bill”:

Here’s the pertinent passages (the whole thing is posted on his blog, “Give Em Hell Harry”;)
http://giveemhellharry.com/blog/47/wrong-values-wrong-priorities

“The budget and these reconciliation bills are based on the wrong values, harming vulnerable Americans to provide tax breaks for special interests and multi-millionaires.
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In essence, …… a budget is a moral document. Unfortunately, the Republican budget is an immoral document. That’s not my term…. That’s the conclusion of some of our nation’s leading religious leaders who, citing Scripture and the Bible, have urged all of us to oppose this budget reconciliation process. As Bishop Mark Hansen, the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America put it, “This is not the time to cut…important programs while using the cuts to pay for tax breaks for those who don’t need them.”

And why? Why are we using expedited procedures for cuts that will harm millions of seniors and working Americans?

Is it to reduce the deficit? No.
Is it to pay for Katrina? No.
Is it to prepare for the Avian Flu? No.

It’s to provide congressional Republicans fiscal cover today so they can turn around tomorrow to provide tax breaks to special interests and multi-millionaires.

Let me be more specific. The capital gains and dividend tax breaks in the Republican budget would provide 53 percent of its benefits to those with incomes greater than $1 million. Those lucky few will get an average tax break of about $35,000.

But what about those with incomes between, say, $50- and $200,000? Well, they’ll get an average tax cut of $112.

And what about those with incomes less than $50,000? .......
$6 dollars for those earning less than $50,000.

And to partially pay for these tax breaks, many Republicans now want to cut Medicare. cut Medicaid. Cut agriculture. Cut housing. Cut student loans. Cut child support enforcement. Cut services that Katrina survivors rely on. Cut benefits needed by our nation’s most vulnerable Americans.

Mr. President, now you know why some of our nation’s most respected religious leaders call this budget immoral. These choices do not reflect the best of America’s values. This is not what most Americans would want.”

YOU TELL ‘EM, HARRY! That’s how I like Democrats to sound: Like they actually care about average Americans!!

My new way of supporting Harry is to write comments on his blog. The more it looks like Harry has lots of people reading his blog and supporting him, the more power he’ll have. You can add your comment right at the end of his speech at the link above.

What if 100,000 people write in and say “Go, Harry, I agree with you 100%”? That kind of response will help him whip the Wall Street Democrats like Schumer and Joementum into shape. It’ll also give the Republicans some pause (“Holy Cow”, I can hear them saying, “could it be that some Americans are actually paying attention to what we’re doing??? Oh shit!). There were 500+ responses to Harry’s blog about shutting down the Senate. Given DU's large readership, we could easily produce 1000 comments, just by us alone. All you have to do is write a sentence or two. It's a nice easy way of flexing some “people power”.

What say you, DU'ers?? Can you spare a line or two for Harry as he fights Bush and the whole immoral gaggle of Republicans who prop him up??