[mlocher]

This is in the bill so the CBO will make favorable assumptions about how much the bill will cost. If the true cost were known -— ouch. The dems are gaming the CBO. Garbage in, garbage out.

[Oceander]

This is in the bill so the CBO will make favorable assumptions about how much the bill will cost. If the true cost were known -— ouch. The dems are gaming the CBO. Garbage in, garbage out.

I think you've hit the nail precisely on the head. This is all about gaming the system - setting up the ponzi scheme - so that they can get the CBO to issue fraudulently low cost numbers so they can stand there and say "well, gee, guys, what's so bad about a bill that the CBO says will lower costs and reduce the deficit?" And people think Bernie Madoff was the consummate scam artist? These thugs could teach Madoff more than he ever managed to figure out on his own.