Core Bullshit On Budget Framing

I don't watch it much, but saw a thing on Chris Hayes that pissed me off. It reminded us of how the spending packages that the Democrats are working on are so horribly covered.

We are told of trillion dollar price tags without regularly (like it is some complicated thing to say) being told it is for TEN YEARS. And, the money is less than is spent of the military. The money is going to various things. The military (Congress gave the defense department MORE than it asked for in the latest budget authorization) alone gets more.

It is bad enough that this thing is made out as merely some process story, one where the Democrats are made to look like stumbling clowns. The usual sausage making and how the Republicans simply refuse to take part in a package the public as a whole widely supports is ignored. The policy matters are ignored. But, the simple BULLSHIT framing on the money is alone so aggravating. We need to do more to constantly fight it.