Raúl M. Grijalva, one tough Latino, the WASPHROMs* worst enemy…he is the Republican’s lawn man with an education, the waiter elected to Congress, the janitor who has become an activist; he is the abuelito you go to eat fabulous chile con carne on Sundays, he is us, he is that and much more.
· WASPHROM: White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Heterosexual, Rich Old Men.
Progressive Caucus People's Budget FY12 Memorandum
Eliminates National Deficit by 2021
Progressive Caucus co-chairs Raúl M. Grijalva and Keith Ellison sent a memo to House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen April 6 outlining the Caucus' top budget priorities. The letter and attached budget information are available at this link. An op-ed by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University endorsing the People's Budget is available at this link (off-site).
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has put out a People's Budget to counter the GOP budget proposal. The highlights of this proposal are:
The CPC budget:
• Eliminates the deficits and creates a surplus
• Puts America back to work with a “Make it in America” jobs program
• Protects the social safety net
• Ends the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
• Is FAIR (Fixing America’s Inequality Responsibly)
To summarize what our budget accomplishes:
• Primary budget balance by 2014.
• Budget surplus by 2021.
• Reduce public debt as a share of GDP to 64.4% by 2021, down 16.9 percentage points from
a baseline fully adjusted for both the doc fix and the AMT patch.
• Reduce deficits by $5.7 trillion over 2012-21
• Both outlays and revenue equal 22.3% of GDP by 2021.
Breakdown of Policies
Individual income tax policies
1. Extend marriage relief, credits, and incentives for children, families, and education, but
let the upper-income tax cuts expire and let tax brackets revert to Clinton-era rates
2. Index the AMT for inflation for a decade (AMT patch paid for)
3. Rescind the upper-income tax cuts in the tax deal
4. Schakowsky millionaire tax rates proposal (adding 45%, 46%, and 47% top rates)
5. Progressive estate tax (Sanders estate tax, repeal of Kyl-Lincoln)
6. Tax capital gains and qualified dividends as ordinary income
Corporate tax reform
1. Tax U.S. corporate foreign income as it is earned
2. Eliminate corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies
3. Enact a financial crisis responsibility fee
4. Financial speculation tax (derivatives, foreign exchange)
Health care
1. Enact a public option
2. Negotiate Rx payments with pharmaceutical companies
3. CMS program integrity and other Medicare and Medicaid savings in the president’s
budget.
4. Prevent a cut in Medicare physician payments for a decade (maintain doc fix)
Social Security
1. Raise the taxable maximum on the employee side to 90% of earnings and eliminate the
taxable maximum on the employer side
2. Increase benefits based on higher contributions on the employee side
Defense savings
1. End overseas contingency operations emergency supplementals starting in 2013,
providing $170 billion in FY2012 funding for withdrawal
2. Reduce baseline Defense spending by reducing strategic capabilities, conventional
forces, procurement, and R&D programs
Job Creation
1. Invest $1.45 trillion in job creation, early childhood, K-12 and special education, quality
child care, energy and broadband infrastructure, housing, and R&D
2. Infrastructure bank
3. Surface transportation reauthorization bill
4. Finance surface transportation reauthorization
The "liberal" mainstream media has been all over the GOP proposal. Where are they for this liberal democratic proposal?
Jerry Critter
SOURCE: http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=its_only_going_to_get_worse
About Raúl Grijalva
GRIJALVA, Raúl M., a Representative from Arizona; born in Tucson, Pima County, Ariz., February 19, 1948; graduated from Sunnyside High School, Ariz.; B.A., University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., 1986; Tucson, Ariz., Unified School Board, 1974-1986; supervisor, Pima County, Ariz., 1989-2002; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eighth Congress to the present. ...
SOURCE: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/G000551
Arizona Governor Janet Brewer signing the odious “SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS” law
Here is some of the vitriol and hatred that Representative Grijalva has to contend with. Imagine a Hispanic living in Arizona, getting all these racists white supremacist vigilante types going after you. Imagine how he must feel after the state where he was born and raised passed an odious and seditious legislation like the “SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS” law.
Of course these racist types accuse him of being “ANTI-AMERICAN” but what they don’t tell you is that their definition of American is really WASPHROM (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Rich Old Men) but they can rest assured that Rep. Grijalva is going to continue his fight against discrimination and defend the rights of 
Hispanics. If that is Anti-American…somehow you have to count me out as patriotic.
American Patrol’s Web site expresses their displeasure with Rep. Grijalva’s stance against these bigots:
“Elected to Congress in November, 2002
Arizona, meet your new Mechista Congressman
Arizona congressman-elect Raul Grijalva is a former member of MEChA, according to a 1997 article in the Arizona Daily Wildcat. Did voters know that Grijalva is or was involved with an anti-American seditionist organization? Will he denounce MEChA now that he's headed to Washington? Will he represent MEChA viewpoints (rabidly anti-American) or the interests of the American people when he gets there?” -- Grijalva also isn't happy about "civilian patrols" whose members are seeking to deter illegal immigration, and is in agreement with meddlesome Mexicans that an investigation is needed into activities of Americans (not illegal aliens and their cheerleaders).
Download 11/26/02 17-minute interview of reconquista MEChA-boy Grijalva by Alex Jones (2 mb. May stream using some browsers).
America belonged to the Indians then to Spain, Mexico and then the United States. For some asshole to say: “go back where you came from” is ludicrous because that is where we came from…whether Texas, Arizona, California or even Florida…this is our birthplace or our chosen homeland, this is the America we want to take away from those racists because it wasn’t theirs to begin with…it is everybody’s America.
Tom Tancredo, a Hispanic himself is one of the most anti-Hispanic figures in America
SOURCE http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Grijalva-Raul.html
