I remember back in the day – the ’60s to be exact – I took civics, a required class devoted to teaching future voters how the Founding Fathers formed a representative democracy consisting of three branches of government that created checks and balances to ensure that no one entity could usurp power, a system in which reason, rather than avarice, would rule the nation. 

The idea was that citizens would elect a person to represent them and vote on issues pertaining to their lives, to look after the majority’s best interests.

Well, the Republican controlled House of Representatives just passed a budget that calls 880 billion dollars of spending cuts to help offset 4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts.

Under this budget, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security would have to be cut.

Here are some un-fun facts to know and share.

South Carolina has 1.1 million residents who rely on Medicaid (19.5% of the population).

South Carolina has 1 billionaire (0% of the population). 

South Carolina has 108,812 millionaires (5.4% of the population).

Every single Republican representative in South Carolina voted for this budget, opting to further enrich billionaires and millionaires but to further impoverish the needy.

The minority rules!

A not at all delicious irony: the working class is now the base of the Republican party.