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While We Slept

While we slept the Senate passed a tax bill. Along with huge gains for corporations and the richest 1% in America, it purports to include a tax cut for the much-beleaguered middle class and, indeed, for the “hypothetical” people in a CBS “news” report it does appear to do just that. The problem is that there are no hypothetical people; only real people. Real people and real families with or without children; with college loan debt; with medical worries and medical bills; with grocery bills and auto loans; with credit card debt and utility bills; with school costs (in a pitifully funded public education system) and family members to care for; with party gifts and holidays to plan for; with car repairs and broken appliances; with health insurance costs rising and decisions to make between food, rent, mortgage, and medicine; with the full and ever-present knowledge that the stroke of a pen, a plant or business closing, or a flight off shore by the 1% to avoid even more of their fiscal responsibility in a once free and open society that their whole world could crash in an instant and they would then join the desperately working poor, upon whom this “tax cut” has fallen the hardest, in working 2 and 3 jobs just to stay alive – without health care; with limited educational choices for themselves and their children; with the ever-present fear of homelessness and family devastation. While we slept, an immoral bill rose to the surface in a corrupt and festering swamp of immoral and reprehensible behavior on the part of America’s leadership. While we slept the last vestige of integrity left the GOP and curled itself up in the middle of a quagmire of greed.

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