Hurricane Harvey has exposed the weakness of the three shibboleths that have been the guiding political philosophy for two generations of Republicans.
Those three shaky imperatives are that 1) lowering taxes is always a good idea, 2) government programs can always be cut and 3) economic growth must always be given priority over environmental concerns.
Those three shaky imperatives are that 1) lowering taxes is always a good idea, 2) government programs can always be cut and 3) economic growth must always be given priority over environmental concerns.
Until the hurricane hit, House Republicans were all set to chop $876
million from the disaster relief budget for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA).
That reduction would not produce a savings for taxpayers since the expectation was that the money would go toward buying President Trump’s border wall — the wall that Mexico, no matter what Trump claims, will never pay for. Now, reality has set in and the GOP congressmen realize there is a reason government needs to set money aside for disaster relief: Disasters always happen.
Note EU-Digest: Indeed the Republicans deserve a lot of the blame, but it also holds true for the presently very "wishy washy" Democrats. Bottom-line, unfortunately the US political system overall has become quite dysfunctional for some time now.. And, as the saying goes: "The proof is in the pudding", specially following the election of Donald Trump as the President of the US.
That reduction would not produce a savings for taxpayers since the expectation was that the money would go toward buying President Trump’s border wall — the wall that Mexico, no matter what Trump claims, will never pay for. Now, reality has set in and the GOP congressmen realize there is a reason government needs to set money aside for disaster relief: Disasters always happen.
Note EU-Digest: Indeed the Republicans deserve a lot of the blame, but it also holds true for the presently very "wishy washy" Democrats. Bottom-line, unfortunately the US political system overall has become quite dysfunctional for some time now.. And, as the saying goes: "The proof is in the pudding", specially following the election of Donald Trump as the President of the US.
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