Thursday, April 16, 2015

If Republicans Got their way: What would be the result: SCARY STUFF ACTUALLY: Nightmare

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/8-nightmare-scenarios-would-come-pass-if-gop-presidential-speeches-became

What is most striking about this collective vision is how it would make life more difficult for middle- and working-class Americans at home, and make the world even more volatile abroad. This crew of candidates would not try to make America’s safety nets stronger; they would cut them back. Nor would they ask the richest people and businesses to spread their wealth, they would let them keep it accumulating it with less government oversight and public responsibilities.
Their bottom line is ripping up the domestic safety nets created by Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiatives and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. They imagine that the U.S. can bully its way to global supremacy like Teddy Roosevelt’s mythic big stick. If you think things are bad enough with the current Congress—trying to sabotage nuclear deals with Iran, block international agreements on climate change, repeal Obamacare, and again going after reproductive rights—imagine, as Cruz said, if he or any of these others were in the White House.        



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