With the +GOP in control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, it's fairly clear that we're in for a world of mayhem come January 2015 (possibly even January 2017). Here's to expect out of the 114th Congress when it convenes in January:
- No relief for student loans and retransferring their control back over to the same banks that sank the economy in 2007-9.
- No relief for homeowners on their mortgages, especially when those mortgages are worth more than the property invested.
- No relief for the working poor in terms of extending the earned-income tax credit and food stamps, or by raising the minimum wage.
- No relief for the unemployed with an extention of unemployment insurance.
- More red-tape for trying to file for a patent.
- More tax-cuts for the wealthiest individuals and corporations.
- More tax-hikes on everyone else.
- More red-tape to gauge any kind of government services.
- Higher likelihood of finding contaminated food in market due to loose regulations and hampering USDA's ability to inspect plants.
- Higher likelihood of finding contaminated water due to gutting Clean Water Act and defunding the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Higher likelihood of breathing contaminated air due to gutting Clean Air Act and defunding the EPA.
- Higher likelihood of workplace injuries and deaths due to defunding Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
- Higher likelihood of industrial disasters due to defunding the Chemical Hazard and Safety Board.
- Increased speculation on Wall Street due to weakened oversight from defunding the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Consumer Protection Bureau, and gutting Dodd-Frank.
- Possible cleared bill out of Congress to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and on to +Barack Obama's desk (which he'll veto).
- More hearings over ludicrous conspiracy theories.
- Attempts to impeach the President for doing his job.
- No attempt to pass any budget, and more attempts to shut down the government so that nothing gets done.
- Eliminate affordable housing for people with fixed-income.