simple questions

Now that we are 5 days away from Election Day, we need to start asking ourselves what our future holds. By all odds we are looking at Republicans regaining control of one house of Congress, if not both. But what are our new leaders promising us? Let’s look:

- Repeal healthcare

- Extend Bush tax cuts

- Cut spending, mainly on things like social programs and infrastructure.

- “Accountability”

But what are the alternatives to these items? Go ahead and repeal healthcare, but then we are left with the same problems we had before. How will the GOP fix our old, broken system?

And if we decide to cut spending on things like Social Security, unemployment, infrastructure and all those other “socialist” programs, what’s the outcome? Is America ready to face a tidal wave of growing homeless, seniors unable to afford to live and collapsing bridges? And even if we do massive cuts on all these items, it still will not offset the deficit increasing Bush tax cuts. In the simplest of terms this is stealing from the poor and giving to the rich, or stealing from the 98% and giving to the 2%.

Here we go with Bill O. sending out his goons again. This time Amanda at Think Progress was the target. Read her entire account of what happened here.

Perhaps its time for O’Reilly to be tested. I have done some work in television in the past and when you tape someone you need a release signed. Now the news is different, as it does have some protection under the first amendment, but is O’Reilly news? No its not. He even admits his show is for opinion.

And if something like this went to court and they sided with FOX, that would open up something new. Bloggers would then have the ability to stalk Bill O’Reilly and “interview” him. Perhaps some simple questions like “why do you think the rape victims deserved what happened?” If bloggers did that and didn’t get pushy to the point of harassment, then it would be a matter of time before we had another one of these moments: