USA Today flat-out lies about stimulus checks

Our couldn't-give-a-shit media continues to not give a shit.

As Treasury officials and Congress mull what they describe as an economic stimulus to be paid to the public, USA Today has run an article that flat-out lies about the last stimulus. The piece falsely claims the last stimulus was enacted by George W. Bush in 2008. The article actually says this with a straight face.

Wrong. And this is typical of USA Today cheering Republicans lately (like when it supported Trump's illegal and malicious plan to slash SSDI). President Obama sent out stimulus checks in 2009. The Bush regime did send out checks to folks once, but this program specifically excluded low-income workers. When this was going on, the media claimed repeatedly that everyone got a check. But they didn't. So that too was a lie. It was as if the media was waving the stimulus checks in everyone's faces: "Ha-ha, we got a check and you didn't!" The entire sorry endeavor was to make it appear as if Bush was doing something constructive - when really it was just another handout that went mostly to those who didn't need it.

When the dust settles, a special effort needs to be made to expose our fake news media, which has hit many new lows in the past month.