Heroes tend to have, while most politicians tend to lack, the following qualities, among others: courage, honor, selflessness, integrity, honesty, self-sacrifice and dependability. This week the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party (now unfortunately the mainstream of the Republican Party), along with many of their gutless Democratic colleagues, strong-armed and basically blackmailed President Obama and the Democrats into continuing the outrageous gift to the filthy rich of tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, the people who need it the least. Meanwhile, the economy continues to sputter, millions of Americans are out of work, teetering on the edge or over the edge of foreclosure and/or bankruptcy, or in some cases struggling to feed themselves or even to have a roof over their heads. To me, it is an enormous insult for the Republicans and those Democrats who accept this outrage of the well-to-do being allowed to not pay their fair share. Besides, this welfare for the mostly undeservedly rich will add a couple billion dollars to the federal deficit. It is equally an outrage for corporations to get corporate welfare and/or tax breaks for sending potential American jobs overseas and to give bonuses to employees with bailout money courtesy of the American taxpayer.
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