Saturday, July 9, 2011

Orin hatch

Recently Senator Hatch spoke in congress about the poor needing jobs, he then said that the poor need to do more to pay off the debt. Well Hatch, I wonder if you have proposed any ideas for how to create jobs. The answer is no, you have been to busy expanding the role of government by stripping women of their rights. You are right the poor do need jobs, but tax spending for the rich has not created them. I wanted people to know that the poor have been paying for this bad economy since 2007.
In 2008 persons receiving SSI, or SSDI, were denied a cost of living increase. This increase has still not been given back. What this means is that as bills get bigger our ability to pay them shrinks. Starting in 2007 the state of Utah tried to cut food stamp and cash aid benefits to disabled adults. They have only partially succeeded. Funding for section 8 has been cut so severely that some families cannot find affordable housing in their communities. Medicaid benefits have been cut to disabled adults, this affects veterans as well as those "drug addicts" Hatch spoke of last year.
We have paid for a debt crisis that we did not start. We continue to pay, in cuts to education health care, housing, food, clothing, and on and on. Where does it stop, when will the Republican party decide that we have paid enough? Right now the budget plan calls for 85% reduction of spending and 15% raise in revenue. Now I am no math genius, but that does not look fair. Our social programs are sustainable if we collect revenue, if we continue to cut revenue than of course these programs become unsustainable. We have already made the sacrifice, it is time to raise some money.

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