Governor Mitch Daniels (R-Indiana)

When asked "Are budget cuts-government budget cuts-worth it, even if they end up seriously costing a lot of jobs right now?" Governor Daniels responded "The answer is yes."

So, basically, they want to increase unemployment and slow economic growth while simultaneously fighting against the working (disappearing) middle class and fighting for tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporations. However, it is the Republican party line at the moment. When informed that the GOP cuts to the budget would actually increase unemployment and slow economic growth according to most economists, Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-Ohio) replied "So be it."

Does anyone making under $250,000 a year still think that the Republicans have their best interest at heart? They spent the whole of the 80's and 2000's wracking up impressive national debt and now, at a time of economic hardship for most Americans, they want to rein in spending despite the fact it will only make things harder for the poor and middle classes? Money is power and people who have money and power want to do everything they can to protect it and gain more. The Republican agenda for some time now has been to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. If you don't believe me just look at how wages have stagnated over the past 40 years for the working class, while an obscene amount of wealth has collected and stayed with the richest 2% of Americans.

Johnathan Cohn makes a good point here:

"But if the political future isn't clear to me, the policy future is. And it doesn't look bright. One way or another, federal spending both for the rest of 2011 and for 2012 is going to decline. Even in the highly unlikely event that Republicans were to cave completely, giving Obama everything he's requested in his budgets, valuable federal programs on which people depend, from home heating assistance to Pell Grants, would shrink starting next year. States, struggling to balance their own budgets, would make serious cutbacks of their own. And that's on top of the cuts already in the works.

 Just in the last few weeks, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for downsizing prisons and reducing Medicaid spending. North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue has proposed closing state parks, reducing school bus service, and zeroing out grants to the non-profits that fill in the gaps of the state's inadequate public services. Florida Governor Rick Scott has proposed to reduce spending on Everglades restoration and reduce spending on the public schools by roughly 10 percent per student. "

 I'm sure it isn't hard to tell who will be hit the hardest by these sorts of cuts.