The Biggest Media Meltdowns of September
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/here-are-some-of-the-biggest-media-meltdowns-in-september/
1. The return of the single-payer deficit trolls.
With a surge in support among congressional Democrats for single payer, or Medicare-for-all, comes the inevitable hand-wringing by centrist Democrats and center-right pundits worried about “deficits.” As luck would have it, weeks after high-profile 2020 hopefuls Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joined Sen. Bernie Sanders’ call for single payer, Congress casually and without fanfare increased the Defense Department’s budget 13 percent, or by a whopping $81 billion.
To put it in perspective, this is the equivalent of the federal government creating more than four NASAs overnight and this is just on the Pentagon’s budget increase. At $81 billion, the federal government could have covered the tuition of every public college student in the country ($70 billion) for 2017-2018 and still have $11 billion left over to cover every Americans’ overdraft banking fees. It’s an ungodly amount of money just thrown out there without an ounce of public discussion. No cable news yelling. No nightly news programing. No front-page stories on the massive costs. No opinion section back and forth. The Defense Department just created the equivalent of 32 new National Park Services and no one cares...
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