GOP Stealing from the Poor and Giving to the Rich

On July 11, 2010, Republican Senator Minority Whip John Kyl went on record stating that he believes the Bush tax cuts for people making more than $200,000 a year should be continued.  This comes after all GOP Senators voted to end an extension of long-term unemployment benefits. There you have it in the simplest terms. The GOP is an anti-Robin Hood- stealing from the poor to pay the rich.  The GOP leadership must think all unemployed workers are Democrats. 

Unfortunately, the voting base of the GOP isn’t rich, they’re average Americans, but they cling to a party that gives them hope- even a dream-  that unbridled regulation and tax friendly free markets will someday be their enabler when they hit the mother load. They believe their party will be kind to them too, and even reward them with more money with a tax friendly philosophy.  They cling to their dream even when they are laid off from an impersonal non-union employer, even when they find themselves unable to pay medical bills, even when they can’t find work, even when their unemployment checks stop coming in the mail. I wonder…

The cry from the GOP is the Democrats are increasing big government and taking over our lives.  I’m sympathetic to a libertarian view that less government is good. All government restricts freedoms. The role of government should be applied with the utmost discretion. The bigger our country gets, the bigger government gets. There is no escaping the inevitable, but we should extend government’s role in our lives only when the greater good is being served- to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare.

The debate rages on as to how much government is needed to uphold the great Preamble of our Constitution.  What is unexplainable is how average American GOP victims “of less government is good” continue to believe they are better off under Republicans as they stand in the unemployment line and file for bankruptcy.