Conspiracy of Silence

    The June 14th online edition of Nation Magazine has a short piece by Ryan Rafaty called The Five Smartest Congressional Bills You've Never Heard Of.  He lists five very good bills that never made it out of committee.   Some of these pieces had bi-partisan support and, according to polls,  would have been  supported by a wide majority of Americans;  but they died in committee and you've never heard of them.  Why?  Put simply, a conspiracy of silence.  Had the public been aware of these bills, Congress would have been under intense public pressure to act on them. But with a mainstream media blackout,  this never happened.  Because our mainstream media outlets are owned by corporations controlled by the same Wall Street moguls that own the rest of this country.  And any bill that aims to help Main Street at the expense of Wall Street  is carefully ignored to death.