House GOP Says No To Taxes for Rich, Yes To Cuts for Poor

September 30, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Can you say mean-spirited?  Short-sighted?  The un-compassionate conservatives in Congress are at it again ...

Setting a collision course with Democrats that could drag out for months, House Republicans on Thursday unveiled plans to cut federal money for job training, heating subsidies and grants to better-performing schools.

The draft measure for labor, health and education programs also seeks to block implementation of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, cut off federal funds for National Public Radio and Planned Parenthood, and reduce eligibility for grants for low-income college students. 

These are Republican priorities:  Cut job training, cut grants to low-income students, cut low-income heating subsidies by 28%, cut public schools, stop the Affordable Care Act and, of course, defund NPR and Planned Parenthood.

At the same time, Republicans want to gut federal labor laws and block new regulations ensuring students get their money's worth from for-profit colleges.  Those for-profit colleges have a track record of leaving students with mountainous debt and unmarketable degrees, but spent over $8 million on federal lobbying in 2010.  

Once again, corporate profits trump concern for people in GOP la-la land.