The debt ceiling battle started to heat up once again this week with Kevin McCarthy,
the speaker of the house, basically telling the Biden administration, we are not going
to budge on making sure that low income Americans suffer. We're going to put work requirements
on SNAP benefits. We're gonna put work requirements on Medicaid. Even those statistics already
show us that those on those programs who are able to work, an overwhelming majority of
them already are working. But putting the work requirements on there, because Republicans
want to change what able bodied means would in fact kick millions of people off, including
millions of children. So that's the Republican plan. And Kevin McCarthy made that clear this
week when he traveled to the New York Stock Exchange, this Republican congressman from
California went to the New York Stock Exchange to assure the stock brokers and the traders
and the people who add nothing of value to our economy.
He assured them that he wasn't gonna let their taxes go up, but he was gonna make sure that
poor people continue to suffer. And according to the reports, he was greeted with a round
of applause when he told these wealthy moochers that they weren't gonna have to pay more,
will just take money away from poor people. And Wall Street frigging loved it. I mean
literally Wall Street, he was at the stock exchange where he did this. And when I say
we're talking about people who add nothing of value to the economy, I mean that these
jobs, these people that he is talking to, their profession should not exist. I'm not
saying they as people shouldn't exist. They absolutely should. But what they do, that
shouldn't be a thing. You take other people's money and you say, okay, now this money's
here uhoh. That looks bad now this money's here.
Yay. I've done job. Like how that's not even a thing. It's a thing we created. And then
we created the position for these people to just say, okay, money, money goes here. Oh,
now money goes here. Like, I'm sorry. That's not a job that needs to exist. And it certainly
isn't an industry that needs to be coddled, but that is what Republicans are doing. Hell,
it's what a lot of Democrats do too. Sure, but I'm not gonna both sides this cuz this
isn't a both sides issue. The ones who wanna make poor people suffer immediately right
now are the Republicans. And Kevin McCarthy spelled it out for the wealthy elite. He went
to his audience, that New York Stock Exchange and he flat out told him, I'm not gonna let
them raise your taxes, which are costing us
103 billion a year from the 2017 tax cuts. Instead, I'm gonna make poor people go hungry.
I am gonna take the food out of the mouths of starving children to protect you. You good
for nothing. Wall Street Bankers, that's what Kevin McCarthy did this week. Those are the
people he's taking care of. And this s o b is gonna hold the entire US economy hostage
unless he's allowed to make poor people suffer even more.