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""... Mainstream journalists wanting to
appear serious about public policy rip
into progressives for the costs of their
proposals, but never ask self-styled
“moderates” how they plan to cope with
the costs of doing nothing or doing
too little about the same problems.
A Green New Deal might be expensive
but doing nothing about the climate
crisis will almost certainly cost far
more. Medicare for All will cost a
lot, but the price of doing nothing
about America’s cruel & dysfunctional
healthcare system will soon be in
the stratosphere.
Second, the mainstream media often
fail to report critical public choices.
Any day now, the Senate will approve
giving $768 billion to the military
for this fiscal year. That’s billions
more than the Pentagon sought. It’s
about four times the size of Biden’s
Build Back Better bill, which would
come to around $175 billion a year.
But where’s the reporting on the
effects of this spending on the national
debt, or on inflation, or whether it’s"
