“I, along with my colleagues in the Republican Study Committee (RSC), wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner asking him to “Cut, Cap and Balance”: cut the deficit in half next year with discretionary and mandatory spending cuts; cap federal spending at 18% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP); and pass a Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment (BBA) that includes spending limitations and strong protections against federal tax increases. This proposal will put us on a path to prosperity, and I will work to see provisions like this are included in any final agreement…”
“As the chair for the Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP), I am holding hearings that explore how we can protect job growth in today’s global economy. Just last week, we held a hearing to discuss recent decisions by President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that expand the use of corporate campaigns and could be harmful to businesses looking to locate in right-to-work states like Tennessee…”
I continue to be amazed at the GOP’s demand for a constitutional amendment to ban any facet of life in the U.S. that the party of racism, ecologic devastation, and unbridled theocracy finds objectionable. The party of “less regulation” has no problem demanding such high order regulations if it will ensure their financial backers’ continued support. The party of “more personal freedom has no problem limiting your freedoms and mine while allowing their voter base to create and enforce a state religion. The party that demands protection of the Constitution has no problem with any alteration to the document that serves their party line and their re-election campaign funding.
While we need a balanced budget, the teavangelists seem to have forgotten that we had a budget surplus when Bush II took office. Two unfunded wars and incessant corporate malfeasance demolished that surplus. I don’t recall Mr. Roe demanding that Bush’s wars be funded and fought under a balanced budget. There will come a time when the nation will need to increase taxes. While the GOP will willingly starve the population, they may want to fund yet another war or another pay off to the insurance industry. They won’t like it if their greed is held hostage by the process of repealing a “no taxes for the rich” amendment.
Mr. Roe continually clamors for less regulation, less obstruction in Congress, but aided the GOP’s every effort to block any progress toward financial recovery, ecologic preservation, and alternate energy development. Now, he holds hearings to discover why there are so many unemployed.
I’ll answer that. During the Reagan and Bush administrations, it became the accepted practice of corporate raiders to offshore every job they could while awarding their upper management staff exorbitant bonuses. Now we have almost no jobs left to send offshore and no one can afford to buy the poorly made imports that come from China and from 3rd world sweatshops. So even Wal-mart is losing profits.
The Reagan-Bush tax cuts that should have been repealed will not, as the GOP lie machine claims, create new jobs. The corporations have discovered that they can force workers to accept lower compensation, fewer or no benefits, and part-time work schedules while they try to hang on to what little bit of their old life they can. The corporations will continue to squeeze employees and consumers until the bottom falls out of the American economy. The corporate executives with multiple vacation homes, offshore bank accounts, and economic and legal shelter provided by Congress are not going to miss meals. The rest of us had best get used to living in a 3rd world nation, thanks to a Congress that has been bought and paid for by business.
That’s OK, Mr. Roe, hold another worthless hearing to make certain your campaign fund contributors get yet another chance to lie to America and the GOP shows us how to sell out a nation.
http://roe.house.gov/News/DocumentPrint.aspx?DocumentID=245091
President Obama Agrees to Meet with the GOP Doctors Caucus
Washington, Jun 7 - 2011
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Congressman Phil Roe, M.D. (TN-01), along with his colleagues in the GOP Doctors Caucus, sent the following letter to President Obama to discuss critical aspects of health care reform:
We are writing to formally invite you to a meeting with the GOP Doctors Caucus, something you agreed to in a conversation with Drs. Bucshon, DesJarlais, and Roe after your June 1 meeting with the House Republican Conference. We would like to discuss critical aspects of health care reform including elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Medicare sustainable growth rate, medical liability reform, and the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
As physicians, we can provide unique insights about how recent changes will impact medical providers and—more importantly—their patients. We hope that by opening a constructive dialogue we can work together to strengthen the American health care system and avoid potentially harmful effects that may come about without action in the near future.
This meeting will be a farce. Mr. Roe has no intention of providing healthcare for the populace. His continued presence in Washington depends upon the health insurance industry’s satisfaction with his efforts to destroy Medicare.
Mr. Roe is old enough to recall why seniors need Medicare. By the time Americans reach retirement age, most of them are uninsurable due to injuries, illnesses, or genetically disposed diseases. Mr. Roe and his colleagues know this but simply don’t care. While they are fully aware that “vouchers” will not purchase any sort of insurance for seniors they don’t care. Thanks to thee M.D. initials they sign when convenient, they can rely upon professional courtesy to obtain care that they are fully willing to deny everyone else. They have a double “halo-effect” and have no problem exercising it.
The GOP/teavangelists are eager to abolish affordable health care for anyone who needs assistance. While they trumpet their objections to “government bureaucrats rationing health care”, they have no problem ignoring corporate bureaucrats denying healthcare. Palin’s death panels will become reality but, as always in Palingrad, she got it backwards and then lied about her errors.
I challenge Congress to find realistic healthcare for $8,000/year with diabetes, COPD, Asthma, spinal injuries, or any of the other diagnosis that insurance companies will use to deny coverage. The GOP/teavangelist health care plan will always be, “Be rich or die quickly!”
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