Republicans Still Show No Concern For The Poor.

After watching CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley, I came away feeling that I have to write an obituary for America! Candy's guests were quite succinct and more than convicted in their veiled disgust and nonchalant lack of concern for the poor of America. They keep bandying about words like 'entitlements, Spending cuts and deficit reduction' without batting an eye, as to the destruction to the poor that they are proposing.

First of Candy's guests was outgoing senator Olympia Snow. She was all too eager to project that republicans really care and want to keep tax rates from going up on anyone, but insists that any fiscal cliff deal has to include some plan for reducing entitlements. That would be all well and good except it's obvious she thinks Americans are too stupid to realize that entitlement cuts really mean cutting programs for the poor that they need to live, feed their kids and stay healthy.

Next up was CNN Correspondent Dana Bash who reported something really shocking. She said that Republicans refused to go along with Democrat's suggestion, that some of the extra income that will be raised with the new tax rates can be used to pay down the debt. Republicans insisted that debt reduction must be done instead by entitlement cuts thereby ensuring that any pain and suffering to pay down the debt and curb spending is placed squarely on the bleeding backs of America's poor. 

Next up was Senator for Wyoming John Barrasso who commented that infrastructure spending was off the negotiation table as it is just another way of running up the debt, suggesting that we should first grow the economy... by following the Republicans' mantra of cutting spending by entitlement reforms. Notice how republicans say that having infrastructure programs is 'spending' on infrastructure, instead of it being 'investing' in those programs and creating jobs which will grow the economy...something that was done after WWII. 

Of course when a major bridge falls in their area or they are stricken in some way by natural disasters they do not say that their pleas for help requires government spending, instead they are quite happy to praise the same departments that they are still trying to do away with, FEMA is just one such example.

They are wordsmiths of the highest order, 'entitlement reforms' simply mean cutting programs to the poor in order to scrape off massive profits for the rich in the form of lowering taxes and keeping them low, regardless of how much pain and suffering they cause to the bottom 98% of Americans, half of whom are poor republicans who need these programs to live and feed their families.

The Fiscal Cliff  and Debt Ceiling talks have one thing in common, the willingness by the Republicans to do everything they can to bring pain and suffering to America's poor and needy, who just want to live. 

Republicans maintain that there is no leadership from the President, by which they mean the President should fold to their demands to inflict pain onto the poor, and lead the rest of the Democrats kicking and screaming towards the Republican's evil way of thinking.

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The Battle Has Begun...

I have seen the underbelly of Corporate Media. It is now a different animal than it was 40 years ago. Someone told me yesterday that the “News” part of XXX News may last at best two more years before it is gone into the ether…and I will have to find another job, but that is beside the point. Over the last 10 years I have seen the changes happening in my own “Organisation” as the others…CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC etc…even Fox to some extent. The fact is they are all reducing their “News” aspect in exchange for “Infotainment”

This is the New World of reporting and it will spread Globally. I have seen News stories that people worked on for weeks get cut because of this or that Advertiser who wanted another story instead. That happens more than you know around election time. The surprising thing to most that the Right Wing has a bigger say than people realized is really the norm that has been happening over the last Decade, it’s just that most people in the public did not know it, but I and many others saw it develop over the years.

Ok, in this present day, this is the story…Most of the Media houses are really run by Conservative Executives who say what will Air and What wont. In my News house, it has always been the unspoken wink and nod knowledge that this is how things are run. We see the filtering out of the “real news” and the substituting of “slanted stories” by the boys “upstairs”. So do not expect any change or swing to the left, when it comes to real reporting and Journalism. The reality is that apart from the few who are on CNN and MSNBC, which amounts for 10% of Left leaning or unbiased reporting, the rest is just cloaked Right Wing Propaganda machines.

This phenomena has been increasing for decades…them getting the right wingers to run the Executive Boards at major Media Companies…and Wall St. too I might add, so the question and truth of the matter is…who will be the frontline of truth in the face of this 90% of Right wing media bias? The answer my friends is US. We the people who make up the Blogosphere. We are the new frontline and we need to become aware of it. I have seen and the proof that I am not mad is the fact that hundreds in my company (XXX NEWS) have also seen it.

Over the last two years they have been cleaning house and has offered buy-out packages to most of the news and related departments, including camera men, audio, technicians etc…who are the little guys, this has already been done to Producers, editors and the like, months ago. Many who are “kept” to run the operations are curiously in my opinion…”company men”…right wing white men obviously…a few right wing women too of course. The objective being to eventually get rid of the “News” operations departments altogether and just have a right wing media blanket over the whole country. There are not many of us left…over 1500 of us in the NY location have already been “bought out” ….fired in my opinion.

So yes, what you see is now what you get, there is almost no middle of the road reporting anymore…save for us, the new frontier…the frontline…bloggers for democracy…US. Lets take on the fight, because there is no one else to. As an after thought, please be aware that this is a real fight, and the right wing media will come after us with both barrels blasting…this is only the beginning of the war…and we are the enemy. You have all seen that they have been taking over the Media…Radio, TV, Electronic and printed for a long time now, well it is out in the open now…unfortunately we only have a 10% presence in the “White Man’s Media”…and they are beginning to push…hard, against us. They are going to come at us from all angles, they are buying up the Newspapers, Publishing Companies, and their online presence is massive and growing.

What we saw with Sherrod is only a reaction and reflection of what the White House already knows. The White House knows about this right wing media hold on the country and it is engrained in the executive boards of MOST companies. So yes they did try to get a jump on the issue and someone decided to have her fired, but the story is much bigger and runs deeper than that unfortunately.

They have the White House on edge, as well they should be, because the stakes are high, and the country as we knew it…not know it…hangs in the balance. So prepare yourselves my blogger friends…we are no cowards and we have a fight at hand…lets take them on! I say FUCK EM!