This blog is cross-posted at StewartAcuff.com
Recently, we heard the FAA is dangerously shutting down human operations in about a quarter to a third of the airports in America – more than 150 altogether in spite of the obvious danger this means for the flying public.
Now, The Huffington Post is reporting that the “Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired announced on Thursday that it would be letting 28 of its 65-member staff go with sales orders from the federal government drying up.” Most agencies that provide work for sightless people get most of their orders from the federal government because of legislation passed in 1938. Now with those agencies running out of money, they cannot order new goods, which means that non-profit agencies that employ the blind are laying off their staff.
All because radical right-wing Republican Members of Congress refuse to tax the Financial Elite, the filthy rich, and corporations at the same level that all of us are taxed.
Exxon, the culprit in the 22 foot rupture in the tar sands oil pipeline in Arkansas that cannot be cleaned up is just one oil company that pays no federal taxes at all. Neither do any of the other oil companies and many other corporations.
What will be the next shoe to drop in the budget sequestration of the radical right-wing Republican Members of Congress?
And yet the only thing I can see the radical right-wing noise machine is concerned about are White House tours. Rush Limbaugh aka El Rushmo, Hannity, Glenn Beck, and all of Fox are screaming constantly about White House tours, but saying NOTHING about work support for the sightless, air traffic controllers ending, meat inspections not keeping up, and the plethora of other federal government functions that keep us safe.
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