US Republicans Just Can't Bring Themselves To Do The Right Thing.

The Republican party in the United States has demonstrated what it actually means to be a right-wing party in a modern democracy - unashamedly selfish. A deal to extend tax breaks for the lowest paid in America has been stalled in Congress by a group of men who only want tax breaks when it benefits them and their rich friends. We asked one of the Republican Congressmen for his view; "I don't see why poor people should get tax breaks just because they're poor - it's their own fault after all. Tax breaks for rich people is far more attractive because they have more tax money to save and, anyway, they're the ones who pay my real wages. As far as I'm concerned your ordinary American worker and taxpayer are only there to make me and my buddies richer - they have no other function. Oh, except during Congressional elections when they're only of any use if we can persuade them that the Democrats are closet communists. You have to realise that we Republicans can only get ourselves elected if we can invoke irrational beliefs. God loves us and hates Democrats, Barak Obama is the spawn of the Devil, everyone is a commie unless they can prove otherwise - that sort of thing. All we have to do is prove to the American public that having more money to spend on themselves is communist in nature and that being poor is their patriotic duty."