Republicans Defunded The Police We Need

[KY_EnviroGuy]

Republicans Defunded The Police We Need
Trump and the GOP pretend they love law enforcement -- but they eliminated the cops that protect us from the world’s most dangerous and powerful criminals.
TMI.com
David Sirota
Jun 9

Read it here: https://sirota.substack.com/p/republicans-defunded-the-police-we

Trump has called himself the “president of law and order,” but these efforts to defund the police have created lawlessness and disorder. And yet, that hasn’t been mentioned by the politicians and pundits pretending to be scandalized by protesters’ demands for a change in criminal justice priorities.

Apparently, we’re expected to be horrified by proposals to reduce funding for the militarized police forces that are violently attacking peaceful protesters -- but we’re supposed to obediently accept the defunding of the police forces responsible for protecting the population from the wealthy and powerful.

This article lists some of the more serious malfeasance during this administration that negatively affects everyday American's lives, income and security.

Call it a starter do-list for Joe.......

[Turbineguy]

1. Shhhhhh!

We're not supposed to notice that.

[Swfladem]

2. Republicans have defunded...

almost everything. It goes back to the Reagan tax cuts on the corporations, allowing them to virtually pay nothing in taxes. Wall Street had a blast for eight years, then it caught up to them. The money for teachers, firemen, police, virtually everything that is paid through tax money, began drying up. Then, in 1989, rather than reinstate those taxes, HW Bush placed the largest tax hike in history onto the working class to try and keep up. The republicans have been trying to defund every government entity through the guise of “smaller government” and replacing it all with private industry.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

3. That sums it up well. Republicans love to spend enough that...

our deficit increases after which they can yell "deficit, time to cut spending". Hypocrites!

I used to get furious when hearing their favorite Reagan mantra: "don't you feel you can spend your money better than the government?"

I would reply: "No, I've never been worth a damn at building interstates, schools or parks, testing my food's safety or negotiating treaties and I feel they do those things very efficiently without profit."

KY