After seeing what is happening in Washington, and the development of the battle to get an agreement on the debt ceiling deals, I see a very dark future for our country and here is why.
The plan proposes to make cuts to all levels that will affect all Americans from all backgrounds with the exception of millionaires. I'm sure that the plan will also cut social programs that are not included in this agreement, but eventually they will also be on the table when the Super Committee takes place in a few months. The GOP will use these talks to keep hostage once more the president and the whole country, demanding more cuts to important social programs such as Medicare, Social security, Education, indispensable government jobs such as police forces, firefighters, air traffic controllers, and as well as many other important jobs that will have a direct impact in the way we live in America.
Cuts to 'Planned Parenthood' will affect hundreds of thousands if not millions of women who don't have the economic means to pay for birth control pills or contraceptive methods. This in itself will avoid millions of abortions every year. If cuts take place, then the main purpose of conservatives to closing or de-funding Planned Parenthood because they perform abortions, will fire back at them, creating the perfect situation for millions of abortions to take place due to lack of contraceptive methods and medication. Will Americans be affected? The answer is simple; yes, it will have a direct impact on poor women who don't have the economic means to support a child. Not only women from all social and races backgrounds will be affected, but entire families and big portions of our society too.
Education cuts will be disastrous for all children of school age due to lack of neighbors' schools and overcrowded classrooms. Kids will have to travel longer distances to go to their neighborhood designated schools thus increasing the family transportation budget. Many more poor kids will quit schools because parents won't have the economic capacity to pay for it. These cuts not only will affect primary, middle and high school, but also university and college institutions as well. The whole education system will be affected and the results will not only be bad for the kids, but bad for the entire country. It will influence the level of technical knowledge and capacity of the labor force, which will not be prepared for businesses' future high advanced technical needs. These businesses will require skilled workers that will not be there when they will be needed, forcing these companies to import foreign educated workers or open offices and factories overseas where the skilled labor force is present, affecting even more the unemployment rate and increasing the levels of poverty of our nation.
What about the war on government jobs? It has become a dirty word to say that someone is employed by the government. The extreme right such as the Tea Party has brought all the conservatives to a corner, and I would also say not only the GOP, but the whole country for that matter, from which it will be difficult to get out in the near and far future. I say this because of the avalanche of cuts that it will come due to the latest deal that the government of President Obama was forced to sign. All of us are going to feel the effects of such inconsiderate measures by seeing crime rates go up like hot air balloons, firefighters doing nothing to stop a house on fire because the owner didn't pay his/her dues, or maybe getting too late to save a victim of a car crash due to lack of emergency personnel. We will feel the impact, but only those who are affected by it will notice it. If people read it in the papers the first thing that comes to their mind is that that will not happen to them. Security at all levels will be affected and crime will rise at levels never conceived before; especially after having an unemployment rate of 15% or higher that will produce new poor society members that would do anything in order to survive. The only people benefiting from this social catastrophe will be the corporations owning private penitentiaries all over the country, which will be filled to full capacity with 'clients' that will be arrested for petty-cash theft, burglary, drug use, etc.
But that's not all; these cuts will eventually affect the receivers of well deserved social programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Their benefactors paid for these social services in advance by working hard all their life and having paycheck deductions to cover for these future benefits. With these cuts everyone fifty years old or younger will be affected by not having anything at all when retirement comes, despite the fact that they pay for it throughout all their working years. But not only people from that group will be hit by these cuts, also current users of those programs will notice their benefits reduced year after year. So there will be a time when our grand kids will talk about when people received something called 'retirement benefits' that was given to all citizens after certain age as appreciation and well deserved thank you from society for their hard work and helping the country's economy to boom and be successful.
Be ready and prepared, this is just the beginning. Pray to God that these extremists don't take this beautiful country over the edge of the abyss. Let's all get together and vote out all the people in government that allow the Tea Party extremists to control the United States of America. Let's be free again, don't let the religious extreme turn this democracy into a theocracy where the strongest will rule and the weak and poor will be submitted and eventually will not even have a voice.
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