Expect more austerity, not prosperity

Published 10:18 am Friday, November 14, 2014

About 20 percent of 38 percent of eligible voters, a small minority of Americans, voted for Republican legislators who said our country is moving in the wrong direction.

Apparently, they believe the right direction is:

— Increasing unemployment.

— Even more money for Wall Street and less for Main Street.

— Less affordable health care for more American citizens.

— More voter disenfranchisement.

— Fewer environmental regulatory laws and more pollution.

— Widening the gap even further between rich and poor.

— More boots on the ground in foreign wars.

— Accelerated deportation of illegal immigrants.

— Lower tax rates and more tax loopholes for corporations.

— Fewer banking regulations to restore a boom-and-bust economic cycle.

— More reliance on military solutions in global hotspots.

— Shrinking our safety net for senior citizens.

— Ideologically opposing Presidential nominees and supporting only judicial appointments with so-called conservative credentials.

— Fewer gun-control laws.

— Repeal of laws that increase a woman’s right to abortion and contraception.

— Repeal of civil rights laws for LGBT citizens.

— Fewer tax dollars spent on restoring our crumbling infrastructure and more spent on building fences, not bridges.

All but the top 2 percent of elitists should prepare themselves not for more prosperity, but for more austerity, as we begin moving in the right direction.

Tom Driscoll
Poulsbo