GOP DoubleCross On Unemployment Insurance

Here's another reason to never make deals with the GOP (Gang Of Plunderers); they doublecross you and don't keep up their end of bargains. (A primary reason is that appeasing fascists never works. They interpret it as weakness and just make new, even more outrageous demands. We see it in their relentless drive to roll back the U.S. to the 1920s, pre-New Deal, pre-unions, and their evisceration of abortion rights, among other things.)

Obama caved in on continuing the expiring Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, in return for the Republicans agreeing to an extension of unemployment insurance for the millions of workers considered useless by the capitalists running the country. Expert hostage-takers, the economic terrorists of the GOP are ruthless. (They play the same extortion game with shutting down the government to impose vicious cuts in social spending- never military or secret police spending- and now are threatening to crash the financial markets, and with them, the economy, as just happened a couple of years ago, by refusing to raise the debt ceiling if the Dems don't agree to gut Medicare and Social Security.)

Well now they're reneging on the deal Obama cut in secret behind the backs of the Congressional Dems (who should defy this "leader" who backstabs them) while he strung them along and had them engage in what turned out to be sham "negotiations" with the neofascist GOP. They're moving to slash unemployment aid to the states.

"The Republican plan takes $31 billion from unemployed workers and throws it to the states, allowing them to cut taxes on businesses, re-pay their loans to the federal government, or fill in other state budget cuts."  said Representative Sander Levin (D-MI). According to Levin, "Essentially what the Republicans are doing is reneging on what they voted for," namely the commitment by both parties to extend benefits through 2011, last December. "Every Republican on the Ways & Means Committee voted to extend this program through the end of this year and now essentially they are reneging." For some reason Levin is baffled by this insensitivity to workers. Of course insensitivity isn't the problem. Callous, ruthless, ideological fanaticism in the support of greed is.

Of course, as usual the Gang Of Plunderers has a slimy line to spin things- they say throwing more money at business in the form of tax cuts will enable them to create jobs. Of course, that is nonsense. Businesses don't create jobs just to create jobs. They hire the minimum number of workers they need. Big U.S. corporations currently have about 2 trillion dollars in cash. Obviously they have plenty of money to "hire workers." Their goal, as the GOP well knows, is first, last, foremost, and ALWAYS, ONLY to maximize profits.

"Well what's wrong with that?!" defensive ideologues sometimes retort at this point. If nothing is wrong with it, why don't you ADMIT it instead of always obfuscating it? Why do you make up bullshit cover stories? And why do corporations- especially oil and chemical corps- run ridiculous ads claiming their dedication to humanity is what drives them?

Right or wrong, the nature of capitalism is that profits aren't everything, they're the ONLY thing. So don't pretend otherwise.

And don't make deals with doublecrossing, lying eels.