The New York Times was a great newspaper in my youth. Their reporters helped publish the Pentagon Papers for Daniel Ellsburg, Neil Sheehan ripped off the government’s cloak of invisibility over the Viet-Nam Invasion, and I loved their motto ‘All the news that is fit to print.’
Times have changed since the 70s. The Drug War, AIDs, and the nation’s cult of ignorance have forced the publishers to seek new readers from the Right and a week ago their Op-Ed writer Brett Stephens praised the two Democratic Blue Dogs from Arizona and West Virginia for resisting President Biden’s $3 trillion stimulus package.
Joe Manchin protests that the Federal Government will spend too much money on the Working Poor and Middle-Class, which might jeopardize the country’s will to work. and Kyrsten Sinema, a flack for Big Pharma, claims the USA can not afford Climate Change to protect her financial backers.
Few Democrats and almost no newspapers are reporting that the $3 trillion is to spread out over ten years or that the Endless War has cost the economy over $10 trillion. That sum is a wild guess, but then again the Pentagon gave away $1 trillion at the Bagdhad Aeroport without anyone signing a release form.
Thank you Brett Stephens for your thoughts, I hope I never hear your prayers.
The New York Times sucks.
