The policies that put us here are still in place. A coalition of a one thousand businesses has put together a Senate lobbying campaign to save the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. They've already got the support of Ben Nelson, Kent Conrad and Evan Bayh. The US Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart and Lockheed Martin plan to spend nearly $100 million dollars before the November elections.
The Treasury says extending the cuts to wealthier people would cost $700 billion over 10 years. But they don't care. They don't care about the deficit or you or me or the man from Delphi or the man living under the bridge.
They don't care about anything but themselves.
"And the houses all dark, standin' like miserable ratty boxes, but they was good parties an dancin'. An there was meetins and shoutin' glory. They was weddins all in them houses. An' then I'd want to go to town an kill folks. Cause what'd they take when they tractored the folks off the lan'? What'd they get so their margin of profit was safe? They got Pa dyin on the groun' an' Joe yellin' his first breath, and me jerkin' like a billy-goat under a bush in the night. What'd they get? God knows the lan' ain't no good. Nobody been able to make a good crop for years. But them sons-a-bitches at their desks, they jus' cut "em in two. Place where folks live is them folks. They ain't whole, out lonely on the road in a piled up car. They ain't alive no more. Them sons-a-bitches killed "em."
(The Grapes of Wrath)
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