Monday, Feb. 21, 2011 | 2:01 a.m.
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Congressional Republicans clearly want to play starve the beast with every program that doesn’t suit their narrow agenda. President Ronald Reagan did this with Jimmy Carter’s energy conservation programs in the early 1980s and look where we are now. Five-dollar-a-gallon gas, anyone?
Many of these consumer-support programs now being attacked have real value to average Americans, but clearly the Republicans don’t see themselves as average but more like the intellectual and financial elite.
If the Republicans kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, namely the now-rapidly declining American middle class, perhaps then they will turn to cannibalizing one another’s pocketbooks? One can only hope.
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