Posted on 03/15/2010 4:23:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
In a swindle that would make Bernie Madoff look like an amateur, Barack Obama has gotten a substantial segment of the population to believe that he can add millions of people to the government-insured rolls without increasing the already record-breaking federal deficit.
Those who think in terms of talking points, instead of realities, can point to the fact that the Congressional Budget Office has concurred with budget numbers that the Obama administration has presented.
Anyone who is so old-fashioned as to stop and think, instead of being swept along by rhetoric, can understand that a budget — any budget — is not a record of hard facts but a projection of future financial plans. A budget tells us what will happen if everything works out according to plan.
The Congressional Budget Office can only deal with the numbers that Congress supplies. Those numbers may well be consistent with each other, even if they are wholly inconsistent with anything that is likely to happen in the real world.
The Obama health care plan can be financed without increasing the federal deficit — if the administration takes hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare. But Medicare itself does not have enough money to pay its own way over time.
However money is juggled in the short run, the government's financial liabilities are increased by adding this huge new entitlement of government-provided insurance. The fact that these new financial liabilities can be kept out of the official federal deficit projection, by claiming that they will be paid for with money taken from Medicare, changes nothing in the real world.
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Easy answer, even the IBD can understand — NOBama lies, a whole lot, about nearly everything.
THE GREAT is so right!
Thanks for the ping, Kaslin.
I am sick to death of reporters and pundits talking about this with smiles on their faces.
This is deadly serious.
I want their faces to reflect the seriousness.
SHOW ANGER and DISGUST.
CALL IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
CALL IT TYRANNY.
Call it treason.
The ONLY reason there might be any money is because the older people, ill, injured, disabled and unborn will face rationed or otherwise severely cut medical care. Money saved by not covering them will lead directly to their deaths. Opening up estate monies will lead to spending by the heirs.
This proposition endorses the ABSENCE of life-reaffirming measures. While perhaps not yet euthanasia, as in Soros’ project on Death and Dying in America, the intentional absence of care, starvation and perhaps even dehydration due to regulation of water in a certain area, or making people choose between power and provision, it is the removal of life support guaranteed in the phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
It is amazing these ‘representatives’ think they will not be affected, or that their families will, in turn, not end up among those hardest hit, is it not? Do they REALLY think there is no reckoning, anywhere? Eventually, there will be no one not affected, after all.
You fall in a category of
tobacco use
advanced aged
obesity
disability
anxiety
depression
pick a category, etc.
...and 1st, there’ll be a counseling session
...then, you’ll be assigned to a ‘doctor’ or comminty aide or some such to evaluate you, and you’ll get a ‘mark’ or patch or a cross to wear on an armband. Maybe even a red cross.
...then, you’ll be told that you’re not making the correct amount of progress
...then, you’ll be grouped into some facility to participate in ‘active’ treatment
...then,...you’re out of the way.
And, your heirs will get your money to spend as they wish.
And, add to that list what NEMDF sent to me...
Add:
* history of voting GOP
* history of not donating to DNC
* history of not paying taxes, no matter the reasons
* any history that can be translated as subversive, anti-union, etc.
* and so on.......
Search the Sor0bama inaugural for yourselves. The word ‘life’ is mentioned 2 times, at least one of which referred to history. Ditto liberty. And, the pursuit of happiness. No where is ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness’ mentioned. At all.
IT’S ALL COMPLETELY OUTRAGEOUS AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Grounds for rebellion and impeachment.
...if they tax people for three years without providing any services...until they run out of that money, too.
It's beyond me why someone like Thomas Sowell gives this financial plan a shred of credibility by making a statement like that. Even with CBO numbers this is Pure BO.
Aw c’mon, Darkwing! Never let a Madoff scheme go to waste.
1) Increase of 30 million uninsured. Many are illegals who can’t pay anything(wards of welfare).
2) No increase in doctors to service the 30 million means everybody gets fairly poor care.
3) No increase in costs to pay for those 30 million who can’t pay. How?? Medicare is broke
Compared to this, Madoff was a piker.
Great picture btw
CW2
Great post
That's because Madoff couldn't force anyone to pay for his scheme at the point of a gun disguised under a rule of law...If Bernie was a Harvard Grad he would of known how to do that.
We should
I think so too
It is indeed UNCONSTITUTIONAL, TYRANNY and TREASON
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