No Budge - Budget!

"Paul Krugman is a must read today."  That is what Xaxnar wrote on Daily Kos, and he is right.  The proposed Republican budgets are unacceptable to anyone who is concerned about the financial well being of ninety-five percent of our citizens, and "unacceptable" is putting it mildly.  The title of Mr. Krugman's article in the March 20, 2015 edition of the New York Times is "Trillion Dollar Fraudsters," and with good reason.  As Mr. Krugman wrote, Mr. Ryan claims his proposal would balance the budget when in fact it would actually cause a much greater deficit, and it would do this while destroying Medicare, the Affordable Care Act and most of the earned benefits programs and safety nets ordinary citizens have earned.  Furthermore, these proposed budgets are frauds that depend on, magic asterisk, cuts that are unspecified and designated only by what we must assume to be "magical" asterisks.

Mr. Krugman correctly maintains that "... this isn’t normal political behavior. The George W. Bush administration was no slouch when it came to deceptive presentation of tax plans, but it was never this blatant. And the Obama administration has been remarkably scrupulous in its fiscal pronouncements..."

In regard to why the Republicans are doing this, Mr. Krugman said: "Think about what these budgets would do if you ignore the mysterious trillions in unspecified spending cuts and revenue enhancements. What you’re left with is huge transfers of income from the poor and the working class, who would see severe benefit cuts, to the rich, who would see big tax cuts. And the simplest way to understand these budgets is surely to suppose that they are intended to do what they would, in fact, actually do: make the rich richer and ordinary families poorer."

It is almost unbelievable that the Republicans are doing this at a time when the disparity in wealth between the top five percent and everyone else is so great that even Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan are trying to blame the Democrats for causing it.  Where they are going to find people stupid enough to believe that is beyond me.  Maybe we should ask Fox News; they seem to own stupid.  At any rate, President Obama and the Democrats must not budge in rejecting those outrageous budgets!  Take this fight to the streets if necessary.  If the Republicans want to shut down the Government again in order to steel from the poor and give to the rich, it is a fight we should engage in with every ounce of strength and reason we possess!