The GOPís conduct resembles a child whose parents refuse to grant his/her demands. The rejection of discipline is most onerous because of damage committed by the selfish desire to regulate and control. Self-centered children even refuse to accept the consequences of their actions and strike back regardless of the effects of their actions.
When Bush II initiated his Iraqi War for the benefit of the petroleum industry, he offered little consideration on how we would pay for the war. He provided a tax haven for his associates, which Speaker Boehner compelled the administration to extend. It is this spoiled child who decries the present budget dilemma, averring we must cut many safeguards for the American people: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Under Speaker Boehner, his GOP child/children had an expensive birthday party, an event central to Republican desires to pay less tax and demand more for its money. Imagine, how would the child react if the Bush tax cut had not been extended? These funds could have put people to work in areas in need of repair. But since the birthday party succeeded, the childís appetite grows, its power increases and infrastructure continues to collapse.
The GOP parent is correct about the expenses for caring for other peopleís children but caters to the pharmaceutical industry. They oppose the need to regulate the medical industries and have been able to prevent competitive bidding for medication since this matter means little to them. An example of the result of their concern is that a patient can receive a drop of Patanol and be charged $137.75. The cost at the pharmacy for a bottle is $ 118.29. The charge for one Magnesium pill is $66.45, while the pharmacy charges $6.73 for a bottle.
The Grand Old Party attacked the stimulus package because funds to stabilize the economy were lent to institutions throughout the country in order to keep them alive; many recipients have repaid the government. When GM and Chrysler, for example, resurrected themselves, many Americans remained on the job, employed. Individuals could retain their dignity and work instead of being unemployed and living on the public dole. The GOP could have then asserted too much money was being given to these folk who did not want to work anyway. We could reduce taxes and the funds could benefit the nation by allowing the wealthy to support America by investing in Reaganís ětrickle downî economics. Corporate profits are outsourced so Americans could find jobs at McDonalds for minimum wages.
The child has recently shown the parents who is the boss. In a frenzy of angst the infant threw caution to the wind. He suspended funds for some FAA operations to prove his strength, an action comparable to the child in the movie, ěThe Bad Seed.î While the air traffic controllers remain in their positions at present, airport support facilities and maintenance have been halted. Think of the number of unemployed caused by this and the reactions, physical and mental. But, after all, the child has to show the parents who is really in control.
Our spoiled childís refusal to look beyond his/her selfish needs and do what is best for the family is symbolic of a total lack of maturity. Uncle Bush, his favorite, caused much of the malaise engulfing the nation: the Iraqi and the Afgan Wars, not funding our needs, outsourcing, and preferential tax policies for the rich, emasculating regulatory agencies, refusing to deal with the southern borders and allowing cheap labor to enter the United States, etc.