Hypocracy Reigns Supreme In The House
by Adam Hughes*, 11/18/2005
After Republicans repeatedly painted their efforts to cut programs for low- and middle-income Americans on the floor of the House early this morning as necessary in order to bring down huge deficits (in fact, the bill was actually named "The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005"), those very same Republicans are turning around in less than 24 hours to consider more tax cuts for rich Americans that would actually increase the very same deficits they so reviled just a few hours earlier. This action is the ultimate hypocracy.
When Representatives have the audacity to cut health care, food and nutrition, child welfare, and education funding that ends up paying for more tax cuts for the wealthy in the same day, it's no wonder Americans have no faith in Congress.
Read more about the radical House agenda to take from the poor and give to the rich.
