Progressive Pressure Over the Budget Reconciliation Bill Is Creating Establishment Pushback

[Uncle Joe]

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You’ll notice that all these piles of cash are almost never mentioned in any of the coverage of the palace dramas in Washington. It seems that a prerequisite for a TV anchor job or a Beltway reporting gig at a corporate media outlet is an ironclad commitment to standing in the shadow of a Mount Everest–sized pile of corporate campaign cash, and insisting with a straight face that politics is just a battle of ideas between earnest statesmen presenting different visions for the country’s future.

The average cable TV news viewer is led to be entranced by the audiovisual show of Washington’s soundbite fireworks — and to pay no attention to the billionaires sculpting the legislative language behind the curtain.

In this phantasmagoria of propaganda and bullshit, we’re asked to believe that these corporate Democrats are genuinely worried about spending too much money — even as they back ever-more-bloated budgets for a Pentagon that is so wasteful and so unregulated that it regularly loses track of hundreds of millions of dollars.

We’re asked to perceive these corporatists as the real financial tightwads, even as they are pushing self-enriching SALT tax breaks that could hand half a trillion dollars to the richest 1 percent of the country.

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https://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/progressive-lawmakers-budget-reconciliation-bill-infrastructure-biden-administration-establishment-pushback

P.S. I'm still looking for any of the 17 Nobel winners in economics that back the full 3.5 trillion reconciliation bill to actually be covered by the corporate media conglomerates, so far crickets.

And they want to know how Trump came to power? nearly half a century of this kind of self serving shit by our corporate "fourth estate," that's how.

17 Nobel Prize-winning economists back Biden's $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan

Seventeen recipients of the Nobel Prize in economics signed a letter in support of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better package on Monday. They refuted arguments made by Republicans and moderate Democrats that the massive "human infrastructure" bill—which would provide funding to expand education, health care, child care, and climate efforts—is far too expensive.

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https://fortune.com/2021/09/21/nobel-prize-winning-economists-back-joe-biden-build-back-better-plan/

I'm curious about something, has anyone seen CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX cover this development?

Whenever our nation goes to war, the corporate media always trot out the generals and colonels, if our nation is experiencing a health crisis then doctors and nurses are put out front and center for the American People to hear their viewpoints in the experts' primary occupations.

On the other hand while we're currently deliberating the largest domestic spending bill in at least half a century that could/would dramatically alter our nation's economics, the most celebrated professionals in that field are all but hidden from public view during this national debate by the corporate media.

Why is that?

Shouldn't this be a major consideration on what's too much public investing or too little?

[people]

1. Establishment pushback

Good points!

[MichMan]

2. "Self-enriching SALT tax breaks that could hand half a trillion dollars to the richest 1 percent "

That's not going to play well with some lawmakers