$636 billion for annual military spending was approved by the U.S. Senate over the weekend, with little more than a hiccup of debate from Republican “conservatives,” not a peep from the Democrats, and even less coverage from the corporate mainstream media.
But $850 billion for 10 years of what is ostensibly meant to be health care reform for the health and welfare of American citizens — all while reducing the budget deficit by $132 billion over that period, according to the CBO? “A budget buster!,” shout the phony “conservatives” in the same Senate.
Anyway, there’s your “American Values,” in a two-part nutshell, from today’s Republicans and the Democrats and corporate media who enable their madness as if it weren’t so.
Brad, why do you always seem so exceptional for simply calling out the obvious?! The national media snoozes through another “defense” appropriations bill, and nary a TeaBagger to be found! We sure as hell can’t afford to actually help people with our tax dollars, but we sure can bomb us some A-rabs and Muslims half way around the world who never did anything to us and never could, all in the name of “defense”. I guess that’s just Patriotic and Good, while helping people is Socialist and Bad. The irony that this happens right before CHRISTmas sends me into paroxysms of apoplexy. Oh well, I have to go now…Jesus wants me to indoctrinate my child in the ways of consumerism at the mall. Or is that Santa?
“Brad, why do you always seem so exceptional for simply calling out the obvious?!”
It is, no doubt, as maddening to me as it is to you. Should I add a new tagline here? “The BRAD BLOG: Pointing out the apparently not-so-obviously obvious!”
Thank you.
THANK YOU!
Thank you and other writers for your outstanding work of bringing many important obvious TRUTHs to light..light that coincidentally as a general rule, completely escapes the entire US MASS MEDIA PRIVATE CORPORATE machine.
Then again, sometimes the obvious isn’t un-reported. Instead, an altered, changed, or diluted version is repeatedly told over and over and over to mean something completely different. PUMPED across the country through the Empire’s massive privately owned network of print, radio, and TV .
Props to the Corporate US MASS MEDIA.
Yeh props to the Corporate US MASS MEDIA bastards for usual getting get the weather right and sport’s score correct. These props in part gives them credibility for dropping the ball on just about anything of substance related to politics and government.
I thought it was my job to point out the obvious.
It is always a good thing to remind folks.
Howard Zinn has a new education project, new website:
(part of the cure)
http://www.zinnedproject.org