Tom Toles for December 11, 2017

Death of a thousand cuts, the poor, the sick, the elderly, food safety, the environment, diplomacy, drug safety, science, well, everything but the death industry called "defense.

Paul Ryan has already laid plain his plan which Mitch McConnell has been supporting for years. It is the same drivel that his hero,Ayn Rand, espoused for decades and was never accorded more than a look and a ‘snort’ by ANYONE more intelligent than a college ‘freshman’ (it requires a college exposure to be introduced to Ayn Rand, and the naive “gullibility” of a freshman to buy into her tripe – most of us mature beyond such childish garbage – however, some do not – right, Paul?) And all Mitch had to be told was that it required people to pay for everything they get and Mitch was on board!

The Republican congress doesn’t care that the American public does not like the tax bill because their sponsors love it. Is there anybody left who still thinks the GOP is working for all the people?

Grover Norquist is a raving fool who should be peddling his nonsense from atop milk cases on street corners. Instead, he has every® in Congress kissing his tuchus and groveling for his endorsement. They will kill the goose out of greed.

The REPCONG is WRONG – {a rhyme and a But and a coda}

re the RepCong’s kitchen: -

- My, how it stinks

from the hash made by Mitch ’n

by Ryan, who thinks

to further enrichen

the Plutocrat finks.

… BUT:

But the RepCong is wrongfully wrong: -

- the Head too would die before long, …

… were the economy’s lower body

to plod in conditions so shoddy.

… Coda:

The RepCong is Stupidly Further glitching

a system already writhing and twitching.

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Trump’s supporters like the tax bill because it makes sure them lazy people next door don’t get a handout. It’s better to give the handout to the super-wealthy because at least they’re white.

Republicans will now be able to practice Personal Responsibility and Family Values as they support their Parents!!!

Has greed totally replaced compassion?

Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. — Philippians 2:4

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. — Romans 15:1

Humanity is not about what you say, think, or know; it’s all about what you do.

The ultimate goal is to replace greed and prejudice with innovation and cooperation.

Nurture the ideals of alchemy — the art of turning something ordinary into something precious.

Always leave a place in a better condition than you initially found it.

Life’s only necessary maxim is the Golden Rule ethic of reciprocity: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.(Concepts of Maat, 2040 BC)

My very “conservative” mother, who always votes straight GOP ticket, is now freaked out over what Mitch and Paul might try to do. She has always been concerned that her tax dollars were going to “lazy people”. Little did she appreciate that Mitch and Paul see her Medicare as tax dollars going a damn socialist program that needs to be eliminated.

This is what happens when you vote for greedy idiots.

The recent UN report on US poverty, income inequality, lack of universal health coverage and several other important measures of a healthy society needs to be shared widely.

.http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-poverty-environmental-racism-743601

…cut America’s carotid artery…

They are not ‘entitlements’, we paid for them.

Giving our tax dollars to the richest is entitlement.