[Milton Miteybad]

Mr. Baucus disagreed that his statement on the floor showed Mr. Obama broke a campaign promise. He said, “People will be better off as a consequence of this bill. On that basis, they’ll be wealthier and have more income under this bill.”

Of course, Senator. I know it's true in my case...whenever you take more of my money, so that you have it, and I don't, that always makes me feel wealthier. (Insert eyeroll smilie here.)

[muawiyah]

Such a silly statement for him to make. Let's say we have $16 trillion national income. We spend $16 trillion of that income on stuff and taxes. Now, we increase the amount we spend on medical care by $2.5 trillion. That means we will spend $18.5 trillion when we only have income of $16 trillion.

So, something will have to give.

I suspect that the Democrats cannot maintain the fiction that "new math" will save us as the entire structure of the economy and the government crashes to the ground and the enraged mobs are chopping their way through the smoking ruins.