Sequestration Gets Personal 

It’s a given that capitalism could not exist without unemployed people.  Where else could businesses get employees?  Thus, sad but true, capitalism rests squarely on the shoulders of unemployed people.

That may be a necessary evil of capitalism on the big stage, but inside the homes of many poor young mothers and their babies nowadays, sequestration is making it personal.  Here’s why:

One of the first non-military groups to feel the sequestration cuts has been young mothers who live in poverty.  Until sequestration started, they were getting help from the government under a program that provided formula for their babies.

But tea partiers insist that the richest among us must be protected from paying more taxes, regardless of consequences.  And since the Tea Party has become the tail that wags the dog in the Republican-controlled House, we have sequestration.  

And so, in a very real sense, the very poorest among us are forced to give up food for their babies so that the very richest among us won’t have to pay more taxes.  

All this comes at a time when, ever since we went over the cliff in 2008, the richest have been getting richer while the poor and the middle class have been getting poorer -- or, at best, stagnating.  

I don’t understand how tea partiers can live with themselves.

-Skip