Exactly. They are looking at the financial info and nothing else. They're just trying to cut taxes for the wealthy by cutting whatever they can. Doesn't matter where the money comes from.
What gets me most here is the problem of money is really the problem of wealth.
Money isn't wealth. Wealth is the innate resources of the earth, for if our symbolism -- money -- goes away, we still survive if we had baseline access to the earth.
And yet, because the human mind always falls for the descriptions of the described, the inferential over the innate, not only do we create scarcity, but justify it because the conceptions are what we care for first.
This is precisely why we are still the same species that sees a Great Depression as a loss of "real" wealth, how people starve amidst plenty in the
most productive period in American history, and how we bamboozle ourselves into jobs cults, because a compartmentalized arena of "canonical work" has been asserted as objective means of survival value.
We don't even have to get into the problem of living for the symbolism that we're destroying the objective world, but parties like the Republican party have absolutely lost touch with reality here. If you care about raw numbers, there is "no reason" for Americans to be upset at all: after all, the stock market is near all-time highs.
Symbolisms don't account for much when examined, especially the lived-in experience. These dolts haven't a fuckin' clue how their ideology has given them cataracts to the world as it is.
