Dear America –

When you voted in the mid-term elections to put those Republican asshats back in power you thought you were doing the right thing. Well, the chickens are comin’ home to roost y’all. They announced this week a large round of spending cuts, $60 billion dollars worth. What are they cutting you ask?

– scholarships

– family planning

– the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

– AmeriCorps

– the COPS Hiring program

– Food safety, nutrition programs and the FDA

and much, much more.  What they won’t touch is defense spending.  The real elephant in the room.  You want to balance this budget and save your children from ruin?  Cut defense.  Plain and simple.

So if you thought the government was going to help fund your kids underfunded education or little Jimmy would get a scholarship to college, you can think again.  Just remember America.  You did this to yourselves.

Now that the Congressional Budget Office estimates the tax compromise with cost in the neighborhood of $858 billion over the next 10 years — a sum that makes it even more expensive than last year’s economic stimulus package — will we hear more Republican objections to it?

~ The Note @ ABCNews.com

I’d say the answer appears to be no, since it was also announced in the news today that Republicans kaboshed the 9/11 First Responders bill.  The measure would have given medical and compensation benefits to the first responders at Ground Zero.  Republicans think with it’s $7.4 billion price tag it’s too expensive.  I say compared to the $858 billion they’re staring down on tax cuts this and the Social Security benefit they also killed are drops in the proverbial bucket!