Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit, They Care About Screwing the Poor

This post first appeared on Hullabaloo.

Don’t blame them…selfishness is their religion and Ayn Rand is their golden idol.

What with the Republicans all coming out against any raising of taxes to fix the deficit and insisting that unemployment benefits must be paid for with offsets but tax cuts for the wealthy do not, I think it’s helpful to look at this chart once again:

Deficit Posers, every last one of them. There is no reason to pay even one tiny bit attention to these hypocrites. They’d rather have 90% of the nation living like those poor Haitians rather than give up one thin dime of their inheritances and ill-gotten gains.