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Moment of Truth: Clinton/corp media are working overtime to try to get Bernie Supporters to give up.
If she really had it in the bag, they wouldn't be working so hard.
It is manipulation. Do not fall for it!
Fight for the future of America's Youth.
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...On February 15, 2016, the Times published an article called, "Left-leaning economists question costs of Sanders' economic plans." The article cited, interviewed or quoted five establishment (if liberal) economists (and one pundit) critiquing, attacking and at times flat-out mocking the "seriousness" and plausibility of Sanders' economic plans for things like single-payer health care and major investments in infrastructure or higher education. The attacks were largely aimed at an analysis calculated by University of Massachusetts economist Gerald Friedman, using what Friedman and others insist is conventional economic modeling. The Times' sources described Sanders' plans and Friedman's conclusions in the following ways: "puppies and rainbows"; "magic flying puppies with winning Lotto tickets tied to their collars"; "fairy tales" and "wishful thinking."
Not a single economist who supports these plans (and many exist) was quoted in the story. Nor, for that matter, was Friedman, whose work was attacked by name. "The New York Times did not contact me [for the article]," Friedman told Truthout. "And they still haven't contacted me." The article also failed to mention that hundreds of economists have signed a letter expressing personal support for Sanders' economic agenda. Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich is among the signatories. Other signatories include Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Richard Wolff of Democracy at Work and the New School for Social Research, both of whom are more accurately reflective of "left-leaning economists," than ones cited by the Times.
The article ignored many other important facts. It made no mention of the many studies that have been done over the years that show single-payer on a national scale to not only be viable, but also to have great benefits. Some of these studies were even written by Ken Thorpe, who was one of the critics cited in the Times article and the author of a paper written in January that suggests Sanders is underestimating the cost and overstating the benefits.....
........The Times' article blew up across social media and other media outlets. This was in part because Paul Krugman, the influential economist and Times columnist, and a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton, endorsed the absurdly one-sided article on Twitter and his blog where he dismissed Sanders' single-payer proposal as a "magical unicorn" (again we see mockery as a way to portray supporters of Sanders as unserious, or "on another planet"
. It wasn't long before hundreds of outlets ran with the story, demonstrating the "agenda-setting" function of the Times.
To further cement this narrative, two days later four former chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), wrote a letter to Friedman and Sanders, saying these projections were "fantastical claims," ran counter to the Democratic Party's best traditions of evidence-based policy making" and "undermine the credibility of the progressive agenda." This prompted another wave of articles further painting Sanders' proposals as "voodoo economics," to borrow another instance of mockery in Krugman's writing on the issue. One Huffington Post headline discussed how Sanders' plan was "torn apart" by former Clinton and Obama economists, reinforcing the false notion that "even the left" knows single-payer health care and tuition-free college are not serious proposals.
*****This blitz of criticism, made by just a handful of economists - most of them deeply entrenched in the Democratic Party establishment - was presented so uncritically in the dominant media that the casual observer of the news would have no clue that their arguments are in dispute. *****
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34978-the-dominant-media-left-leaning-economists-and-the-illusion-of-consensus
Not a single economist who supports these plans (and many exist) was quoted in the story. Nor, for that matter, was Friedman, whose work was attacked by name. "The New York Times did not contact me [for the article]," Friedman told Truthout. "And they still haven't contacted me." The article also failed to mention that hundreds of economists have signed a letter expressing personal support for Sanders' economic agenda. Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich is among the signatories. Other signatories include Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Richard Wolff of Democracy at Work and the New School for Social Research, both of whom are more accurately reflective of "left-leaning economists," than ones cited by the Times.
The article ignored many other important facts. It made no mention of the many studies that have been done over the years that show single-payer on a national scale to not only be viable, but also to have great benefits. Some of these studies were even written by Ken Thorpe, who was one of the critics cited in the Times article and the author of a paper written in January that suggests Sanders is underestimating the cost and overstating the benefits.....
........The Times' article blew up across social media and other media outlets. This was in part because Paul Krugman, the influential economist and Times columnist, and a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton, endorsed the absurdly one-sided article on Twitter and his blog where he dismissed Sanders' single-payer proposal as a "magical unicorn" (again we see mockery as a way to portray supporters of Sanders as unserious, or "on another planet"
. It wasn't long before hundreds of outlets ran with the story, demonstrating the "agenda-setting" function of the Times.
To further cement this narrative, two days later four former chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), wrote a letter to Friedman and Sanders, saying these projections were "fantastical claims," ran counter to the Democratic Party's best traditions of evidence-based policy making" and "undermine the credibility of the progressive agenda." This prompted another wave of articles further painting Sanders' proposals as "voodoo economics," to borrow another instance of mockery in Krugman's writing on the issue. One Huffington Post headline discussed how Sanders' plan was "torn apart" by former Clinton and Obama economists, reinforcing the false notion that "even the left" knows single-payer health care and tuition-free college are not serious proposals.
*****This blitz of criticism, made by just a handful of economists - most of them deeply entrenched in the Democratic Party establishment - was presented so uncritically in the dominant media that the casual observer of the news would have no clue that their arguments are in dispute. *****
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34978-the-dominant-media-left-leaning-economists-and-the-illusion-of-consensus
The game is rigged in so many ways.
so I donated 30 dollars to Bernie. Donating what I can spare is turning into a hobby. It's not about Bernie, it's not about me, it's about US. 
WIN!
Bernie WIN!
Well... there's that, PLUS the fact that she's MUCH MORE QUALIFIED than any other candidate out there.
Plus, this is the equivalent of life and death for me my kids, grandkids, and life as we've known it. 
The future is owned by the young people, if they choose to exert themselves. It's hard for me to comprehend the mess we've (USA) gotten ourselves into.
Thank you, Bob. I appreciate the kind words. 
Cheers X 2! 
