The Republican Party claims that they speak for all Americans and that we all want to cut government spending to the bone and want further tax cuts. They are in fact not serious about cutting spending, they only want to cut programs which do not fit into their social agenda. And they do not speak for me.
Want some evidence?
On Tuesday March 1st Republicans in the House of Representative voted unanimously to continue tax subsidies for oil companies. Yes, you read that correctly. Republicans gave billions of dollars of tax subsidies to companies such as ExxonMobil and BP.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/05/oil_company_subsidies.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/01/house-gop-oil-subsidies/
Speaking for all Americans on this issue? I don't think so. 74% of Americans oppose these subsidies:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/03/americans-oil-subsidies/
Robert Gates, a Republican, became Secretary of Defense under President Bush and was retained in that position by President Obama. He is responsible for putting together the budget request for the Department of Defense. Republicans in Congress are insisting that the DOD needs more money than he is requesting. In particular they insist on continuing a program to create a second jet engine for a new fighter plane. Sec. Gates has asked Congress several years in a row to allow this program to die, it will ultimately cost three billion dollars and the Pentagon considers it unnecessary.
Speaking for all Americans on this issue? I don't think so. 76% of Americans support eliminating unnecessary weapons systems:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/03/americans-oil-subsidies/
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