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This is the fight over the debt ceiling: Republicans

want to tackle the deficit by CUTTING SPENDING on:

medicare/medicaid, affordable healthcare & social security( although I haven’t been able to figure out

exactly why social security has anything to do with

spending since it’s funded separately from the budget.)

In other words, the gop insists on making average Americans pay down the deficit by taking away our medicare/medicaid, affordable care, social security, SNAP nutritional supplements & school lunches, which to me, are the most basic necessities of life.

Democrats want to tackle the deficit, not by cutting spending, but by bringing in more money. We can do that by making corporations & the rich pay their taxes instead of sheltering income and using tax loopholes that are only available to wealthy people & corporations.

It’s important to note that republicans cater to big business, corporations & the wealthy because they

get huge campaign donations from them and for all we know, also get free vacations on luxury yachts.In other words, it’s preferable to republicans to force us to give up basic necessities of life so they can keep collecting huge campaign donations and free vacations or whatever, from corporations and rich people.

That’s it. Does that seem fair to you, because it doesn’t seem fair to me. The purpose of a democratic government isn’t to cater to the rich.

Although the republican party has been catering

to the rich for a decade or two, it has finally become

frighteningly obvious that’s what they’re doing--at our expense.

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Susan Garrity Benton : Add everything you said to the taking away of basic rights, like health care for women and girls, and other oppression to discourage and demoralize voters, and that is the 'right's' strategy to 'win'. The female sex is the majority in this country. Majority rules!?

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