Watching C-Span, I see yet another vote on the House floor to drastically cut funding to Medicaid, Student Loans, Child Support collection services, and the like. This on the heels of yet another tax break to the wealthy, and (as I see Rep. Steny Hoyer stating on C-Span as I type this), another $70 billion proposed. The token debate (the Republicans have more members, so the vote always goes their way) naturally involves numerous smug white-boy Alex P. Keaton wannabes spouting "trickle-down" theories (the theory that the profits the rich make will "trickle down" to those beneath them) and claiming these practices will stimulate the economy rather than put a few more Bentleys in the driveways of Walmart executives. I am of comedian Will Rogers' theory that "if you put gold at the top of the economy, it will float there".

I'm sick of this bullshit, this tired theory which has been repeated by the right for decades, but NEVER bears itself out in practice. If this theory were true, then the billions in tax cuts under this administration would mean a booming economy. If this were true, then health care costs would not have increased 70% under this administration. This theory relies on American CEOs having a heart, forgoing their own profit in order to pass it on to their workers in the form of pay raises and benefits, and not being big fat greedy pigs at the money trough. And we all know that aint gonna happen in a country where your material possessions equal your value, i.e. if you have a 10,000 square foot house then clearly you are a 10,000 point hotshot and if you have 5 cars then you are 5 times better than everyone else. Why would you forgo getting 6 cars, or even worse, reduce to 4 cars?

Did I mention that Bush has just proposed shifting the "responsibility" of workers' health insurance from corporations to the individual, to (surprise, surprise) "stimulate the economy", because employERS are swamped by the costs? My heart bleeds for the poor, swamped Walmart president, the destitute Starbucks CEOs who have to tighten their yacht-ropes to make ends meet. Unlike their employees, who are truly ARE "swamped" by healthcare costs and who, like me, have to decide whether that growing lump is really bad enough to see a doctor with a $3500 deductable, you can bet your ass that the employERS aren't so swamped that they aren't down at their doctor's office with a bad case of the burps after lunch because they're insured to the gills.

When are workers who make these Bushies' companies run going to sit down and demand that these tax cuts be passed along? I'd love to hear an American chorus: "You believe in the "trickle down" theory? Then TRICKLE THE FUCK DOWN!"

And to those grumbling "family values" gay-bashing cross-burners in Mississippi and Arkansas and the like who will be losing their Medicaid and loans, I'm gonna be petty because I'm still pissed about the election (don't worry, I speak Hill-Billese): Suck it up. Y'all voted for these guys.