Unless and until the American Voters wake up and realize that the Republican Party in both the House of Representatives and the Senate doesn’t care about them unless they are millionaires and billionaires, America, sooner rather than later would become a third world country.

98% of the working class American people are the Citizens who have made America the shining light since the inception of mankind, but the Republicans who initiated deregulating everything and at every turn, have tried to eradicate The Unions since President Reagan took office, they, the Republicans, would be the demise of our great society.

Looking back at everything that were implemented that is decent and good, humane and have and continues to assist those that are less fortunate than some of us who are fortunate, the Republicans have been and to this day, are a malignant cancer, eating away at the very fabric of the very goodness that placed us – America – at the head of the Pleiades of Nations!

There’s nothing partisan about a road or a bridge or an airport; Democrats and Republicans have voted to spend billions on them for decades and long supported rebuilding plans in their own states. On Thursday, though, when President Obama’s plan to spend $60 billion on infrastructure repairs cam up for a vote in the Senate, not a single Republican agreed to break the party’s filibuster.

That’s because the bill would pay for itself with 0.7 % surtax on people making more than $1 million. That would affect about 345,000 taxpayers, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, adding an average of $13,457 to their annual tax bills. Protecting that elite group  and hewing to their rigid anti-tax vows — was more important to Senate Republicans than the thousands of construction jobs the bill would have helped create, or the millions of people who would have used the rebuilt roads, bridges and airports.

Republicans in the Senate filibustered the president’s full jobs act last month for the same reasons, protecting the 2% of America’s wealthiest at the cost of the 98% that are not! They have vowed to block the individual pieces of that bill that Democrats are now bringing to the floor. Senate Democrats have also accused them of opposing any good idea that might put people back to work and rev the economy a bit before next year’s presidential election.

There is no question that the infrastructure bill would be good for the flagging economy and good for the country’s future development. It would directly spend $50 billion on roads, bridges, airports and mass transit systems, and it would then provide another $10 billion to an infrastructure bank to encourage private-sector investment in big public works projects.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican of  Texas, co-sponsored an infrastructure-bank bill in March, and other Republicans have supported similar efforts over the years. But the Republicans’ determination to stick to an anti-tax pledge clearly trumps even their own good ideas.

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