It's also telling that the media never challenges Republicans when they label themselves as "fiscal conservatives" even though anybody can go to the Treasury.gov website, download US government deficit data and see that every time a Republican becomes President the deficit explodes to new highs.
Reagan exploded the deficit, George W Bush did, and now Trump is doing it too. The only recent Republican President who actually did care about the deficit was George HW Bush, and Republicans didn't vote him for a second term precisely because he really was a fiscal conservative relatively speaking.
Whereas both Obama and Clinton cut the deficit. When Obama entered office the deficit was $1 trillion a year, by the time Obama left office the deficit had been cut in half to $500 billion.
Then when Trump entered office with a Republican controlled Congress they have now increased the deficit to over 1 trillion dollars.
These are empirical facts and literally anybody can discover this in 2 seconds by looking at the Treasury data. Go directly to the main source yourself and look at the numbers/facts yourself, don't listen to the jackasses who write columns and go on TV to lie to you. The media never challenges the assumption that Republicans are fiscal conservatives who care about the deficit and Democrats don't care about the deficit.
Wonder why that is? Perhaps it's because Republicans increase the deficit in favor of the rich and corporations so the media which is 90% controlled by 2-3 corporations are silent.
The whole "Socialism vs Capitalism" and "fiscal conservative" stuff is a big load of bullshit. The labels themselves are nothing but propaganda, they're meant to distract you. They're meant to get you to argue over abstract philosophical bullshit instead of looking at empirical reality and looking at the actual policies the politicians pass.
Literally anybody can do a few Google searches and figure out just how bullshit it is. Yet interestingly our "journalists" in this country never challenge these very easily debunked assumptions and instead spread the falsehoods themselves by implicitly agreeing with them and never challenging them.
Then the people in the establishment, the rich and powerful in this country, the media pundits wonder why Americans are increasingly disillusioned and pissed off in this country. Why Americans are increasingly losing faith in the main institutions of our country.
How can you be surprised that if you're lying to Americans decade after decade that they get more angry, jaded, and confused because no one is actually telling them the truth.
omgseriouslynoway on December 6th, 2019 at 12:44 UTC »
Because corporations and businesses are valued more than people.
voteronly8 on December 6th, 2019 at 12:52 UTC »
It's also telling that the media never challenges Republicans when they label themselves as "fiscal conservatives" even though anybody can go to the Treasury.gov website, download US government deficit data and see that every time a Republican becomes President the deficit explodes to new highs.
Reagan exploded the deficit, George W Bush did, and now Trump is doing it too. The only recent Republican President who actually did care about the deficit was George HW Bush, and Republicans didn't vote him for a second term precisely because he really was a fiscal conservative relatively speaking.
Whereas both Obama and Clinton cut the deficit. When Obama entered office the deficit was $1 trillion a year, by the time Obama left office the deficit had been cut in half to $500 billion.
Then when Trump entered office with a Republican controlled Congress they have now increased the deficit to over 1 trillion dollars.
These are empirical facts and literally anybody can discover this in 2 seconds by looking at the Treasury data. Go directly to the main source yourself and look at the numbers/facts yourself, don't listen to the jackasses who write columns and go on TV to lie to you. The media never challenges the assumption that Republicans are fiscal conservatives who care about the deficit and Democrats don't care about the deficit.
Wonder why that is? Perhaps it's because Republicans increase the deficit in favor of the rich and corporations so the media which is 90% controlled by 2-3 corporations are silent.
The whole "Socialism vs Capitalism" and "fiscal conservative" stuff is a big load of bullshit. The labels themselves are nothing but propaganda, they're meant to distract you. They're meant to get you to argue over abstract philosophical bullshit instead of looking at empirical reality and looking at the actual policies the politicians pass.
Literally anybody can do a few Google searches and figure out just how bullshit it is. Yet interestingly our "journalists" in this country never challenge these very easily debunked assumptions and instead spread the falsehoods themselves by implicitly agreeing with them and never challenging them.
Then the people in the establishment, the rich and powerful in this country, the media pundits wonder why Americans are increasingly disillusioned and pissed off in this country. Why Americans are increasingly losing faith in the main institutions of our country.
How can you be surprised that if you're lying to Americans decade after decade that they get more angry, jaded, and confused because no one is actually telling them the truth.
TheRetroVideogamers on December 6th, 2019 at 15:07 UTC »
Okay, so lets stop calling it National Health Care and call it an illness bailout.
It isn't increasing minimum wage, it is cost of living subsidies.
Done!