Blake Moore: “Well, this is an austerity plan and an inequality plan, this Republican budget. I want people to behold the plunder of…”

“Well, this is an austerity plan and an inequality plan, this Republican budget. I want people to behold the plunder of suckling babes--the young, elderly, the infirm, women, communities of color--by $810 billion cuts in Medicaid and $135 billion in SNAP. It is not humorous to me. I want you to beware of the claims that we're going to grow our economy by ending 750,000 jobs, by pillaring Pell Grants, and cutting off educational opportunity to students. This is not a balanced budget. This is a budget blunder which plunders us into double-dip recession. I'll tell you, Ben Bernanke, our Fed chair, warns against these kinds of severe austerity cuts. If you don't believe him, take the word of Plato. He said: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of plagues, there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty, nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. So we plunge poor people into poverty and give $245,000 tax breaks to the wealthiest. I think that qualifies for not only an austerity plan that can harm us, but it is the greatest inequality plan that this body has seen.”