Paul Ryan’s Worst Nightmare Comes True as Bernie Sanders Is On The Budget Committee

[Enthusiast]

85. I respond to these threads without reading the other posts first.

My first thought is, Senator Sanders is only one man.

Bernie's position is not reflected in the national media where it is only very seldom expressed.

The national media narrative is, "Social security and medicare are the primary drivers of the deficit." We hear it every single day. And Democratic Party TV talking heads seldom correct this false meme. That is why so many of us are so pissed off with the Administration.

Has the President ever said, "Social security did not cause this deficit."?

The war mongers and big tax cutters simply do not want to pay their bills. The Bush tax cuts gave the wealthy our money. All the extra FICA contributions that boomers paid were given to the wealthy as a sort of gift. And it didn't create a single net fucking job.

Social security is a largest single creditor to the USA. Now, just because the trickle down advocates don't want to pay it back, the TV narrative tells us that old people and sick people are responsible for the debt. This is no different than the Nazis calling people useless eaters. It is no different.

The trickle down advocates own the propaganda mechanism. The failure to recognize this is much of the reason we are in this mess to begin with. We have allowed them to co-opt the discussion. That is why those that say the loss of the fairness doctrine is no big deal are so completely wrong.

Where are the Democrats standing up telling us that we must break up the media giants? Where are the Democrats standing up saying we need a new Fairness Doctrine? Without media fairness every issue is a losing issue for our side. With a fair media the ACA isn't even worthy of a discussion. In a fair media, we would be discussing single payer. In a fair media, single payer wouldn't have been characterized as a bridge too far.