In addition to protecting children from internet pornography—shouldn’t we protect them from seeing congress critters shamelessly sucking up to Trump and publicly prostituting themselves to billionaires?

Consider the raw obscenity of the GOP ramming its gross budget bill into law. Even many conservatives gagged at the depravity of forcibly taking food stamps and Medicaid from millions of everyday people, just so a few extremely rich elites can satisfy their insatiable lust for tax breaks.

The stench of greed in their law is so offensive that Republicans are now trying to perfume their minginess by branding all those who’re being denied access to food and health care as moochers. Get off welfare and go find a job! These shameless lawmakers even insist they’re helping the poor by “transitioning” them “from Medicaid to employer-provided health care.”

It's always instructive to hear $174,000-a-year, taxpayer-insured politicos scold hard-hit families for “taking” public aid. Apparently, it never dawns on these pecksniffs that dead-end jobs available to the poor don’t come with any health care. Well, sniff GOP leaders, that’s why we pushed through this “big, beautiful” tax cut for billionaires—it’s our anti-poverty program!

Huh? Yes, they explain, it’s simple: (1) cut spending on poor people; so (2) we can lower the taxes that rich people and corporations pay; thus (3) giving them billions to invest in good jobs for the poor.

This is Jim Hightower saying… I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night. Notice that their Billionaire Boondoggle includes no requirement at all that recipients invest even one dollar in jobs. So, they won’t. This bill is not just ugly, it’s morally revolting.

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