With Big Oil raking in record profits, House Democrats offered a Motion to Recommit to the House Republican short-term spending bill this afternoon making a responsible cut to the budget: putting an end to taxpayer-funded subsidies to large oil companies. Repealing these subsidies would save taxpayers tens of billions over the next decade and even ex-Shell CEO John Hofmeister agrees saying “with high oil prices, such subsidies are not necessary.”Rep. William Keating (D-MA) offered the motion on the House floor saying “let’s stop sending taxpayers’ money to the most profitable companies in the world.”
…Republicans voted unanimously against the motion, defeating it by a vote of 176-249.
It is fundamentally wrong that the GOP pigfuckers in Congress keep pulling shit like this for the ultra-wealthy .001% of Americans and the corporations that control our government.
Normal, hardworking people are suffering every day, and being
askedtold to “share the sacrifice” to help “put America back on track,” while the motherfuckers who have been robbing us blind for decades are rewarded like this and never held accountable for the havoc they wrought on the entire fucking planet.Fuck Republicans, fuck Big Oil, and fuck the goddamn worthless Democrats, supposed “party of the working man” who had majorities for two fucking years and did nothing about this.
This just makes me sick. It is time for a revolution.
(via The Great Orange Satan)
This. This is infuriating.
