Budget

On Tuesday, NBC’s Today show devoted nearly five minutes of air time to lobbying for massive new infrastructure spending and higher taxes to pay for the legislation, key items on the Democratic Party’s stalled agenda. The report warned of economic doom if the United States didn’t immediately sink trillions of additional taxpayer dollars into the latest Biden administration priority.…

America has a record 8.1 million job openings. The media call it a “labor shortage.” But it's not a labor shortage; it's an incentive shortage. “No one wants to work,” says a sign on a restaurant drive-thru speaker in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Please be patient with the staff that did show up.” I never wanted to work. I got a job because I had to support myself. That was good for me. It forced…

For MSNBC senior business correspondent and host Stephanie Ruhle, Friday's woeful jobs numbers prove that in addition to the recent $2 trillion COVID stimulus, the U.S. needs to adopt the White House's expanded definition of "infrastructure" and spend an addition $4 trillion.

As Congress prepared to slink into their smoke-filled backrooms to craft the next federal budget, President Biden made it clear that his old-timey ways meant that the era of wasteful earmarks and pork-barrel spending was back. And despite Democrats and some Republicans packing on millions of dollars of taxpayer money in spending for their pet projects in their home districts, the flagship…

With just a few hours until President Biden delivered his first address to Congress on Wednesday, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News couldn’t hold back their excitement as they trumpeted Biden’s call for an additional $4 trillion in federal spending on mostly liberal pet projects. CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell kicked off the newscast by celebrating the return of big…

According to MSNBC, Biden deserves credit for rewriting the meaning of the word, "infrastructure," to pay for Democrats' pet projects.

CBS This Morning on Tuesday went all in on the billion dollar boondoggle for electric cars in Joe Biden’s “infrastructure” bill. With no explanation of just how expensive this part of the plan is, the journalists backed the idea of GM (with the heavy hand of the government) switching to all electric by 2035. 

NBC’s Sunday Today show dutifully offered nearly five minutes of pure Biden administration propaganda in an effort to sell the President’s massive infrastructure spending plan, hailing the proposal as an effort to “rebuild America” and comparing it to the New Deal. Republican objections of it being “too expensive” were quickly brushed aside as predictions were made that Democrats…

A Democratic Congress and a Democratic President just combined to pass a massive $1.9 trillion spending bill sold as a solution to the economic woes caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to a compliant media, they had an easy job of it: Instead of scrutinizing the bill’s spending choices, the broadcast networks built their coverage around its most popular provision as well as sympathetic…

During an interview with Republican Indiana Senator Mike Braun on her 10:00 a.m. ET hour show on Friday, MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson actually interrupted the exchange to play a clip of Democratic Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy spewing left-wing propaganda in defense of the wasteful, pork-laden COVID relief bill being pushed by the Biden administration. Jackson spent the rest of the segment…

On Tuesday and Wednesday evening, MSNBC’s Joy Reid took to the airwaves to perform her typical race-baiting and ad hominem attacks on those who disagree with her. Displeased by Neera Tanden’s decision to withdraw from consideration for the director of the Office of Management and Budget as her nomination stalled, The ReidOut host fervently denounced Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and…

On Monday evening, MSNBC’s Joy Reid devoted a significant amount of time on her show The ReidOut to bash Republicans for their reluctance to increase both the national debt and the federal minimum wage. She also spun Democrats as too wimpy in committing to ending the filibuster. Reid invited one of the most progressive members of the House of Representatives, Pramila Jayapal (D-WA),…

Appearing on Friday’s Morning Joe, former Obama administration Treasury Department official Steve Rattner proved that the COVID relief bill being pushed by Democrats was a massive boondoggle that could cause inflation and waste huge sums of taxpayer dollars. That revelation came after co-host Joe Scarborough earlier denounced Republicans as “extremists” for opposing the unnecessary…

The problem with free money is that it leads to an addiction much like an addition to drugs. In the case of the $1.9 trillion "relief" bill that has no Republican support, Congress is the supplier, while those on the receiving end become increasingly addicted to government and less self-reliant.