Posted on 03/30/2012 10:00:53 AM PDT by Nachum
Senate Republican staffers continue to look though the 2010 health care reform law to see what’s in it, and their latest discovery is a massive $17 trillion funding gap.
“The more we learn about the bill, the more we learn it is even more unaffordable than was suspected,” said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican’s budget chief in the Senate.
“The bill has to be removed from the books because we don’t have the money,” he said.
The hidden shortfall between new spending and new taxes was revealed just after Supreme Court justices grilled the law’s supporters about its compliance with the Constitution’s limits on government activity. If the court doesn’t strike down the law, it will force taxpayers find another $17 trillion to pay for the increased spending.
The $17 trillion in extra promises was revealed by an analysis of the law’s long-term requirements. The additional obligations, when combined with existing Medicare and Medicaid funding shortfalls, leaves taxpayers on the hook for an extra $82 trillion in health care obligations over the next 75 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Tell Sandra Flake if she lets us keep our $17 trillion, I’ll buy her damn birth control pills for her.
I am predicting it will pass in its entirety. We live in crazy times and this bill is the grand daddy of insanity...so it much perfect sense, in a opposite sort of way, it will pass...
much= makes..
How’s about the Fed just lets us keep the 17mil in the first place... instead of taking from us and THEN returning it to us on their OWN PLAN
Its not 17 mill FRiend..its 17 TRILLION! 17 million is probably what 1/4 of the Obama’s vacations have cost the tax payers.
$17 trillion would be $1000 bills stacked 1,139 miles high.
Kill the bill.
Bump
I’ve been thinking the same thing but, have been afraid to vocalize it. I thought I was the only one thinking like that.
Boatloads of money.
"(There's) your Republican Party, people: always "going along to get along" while Democrats happily bash their brains in, routinely calling them every mean, nasty, rotten, vicious, incendiary thing they can think of, and then some - should they ever object, even for a moment.
After which: Cryin' John will apologize, because it must be our fault they don't love us. Boo Freakin' Hoo.
Battered Wife Syndrome, anyone?
Well, speaking for the non-masochistic base of the GOP: we've had enough of this Sheeeite.
We desperately need representatives with brass knuckles and brass balls; instead we get a bunch of invertebrate eunuchs; fairy-a**ed, pussifed little wimps who can't take a punch without whining and pouting like Richard Simmons on estrogen supplements."
...and much more in that vein....
1000 Trillion = 1 trilliard
$17 Trillion bumps....
You drive down the road and you see a house and it has all kinds of kids toys out front, a boat and a couple wave runners off to the side of the nice house, a new 4x4 pickup to pull the boat with sitting in the drive way, maybe a nice camper sitting somewhere, and a new car in the garage,and you think to yourself, “they must be rich”. Most likely, and our great Nation is in the same shape, they are in debt up to their eyeballs. As soon as the economic winds shift in the wrong direction, these people will be getting rid of a lot of stuff.
We can not afford health care right now. If our elected officials would have done their job and kept us out of debt, then we might have been able to afford something else. But we are broke and in debt. And you can thank the political scum bags in Washington DC for that. You can thank them for a health care bill that could sink us. The people on Capital Hill need to be packing and sent packing right now. If the American people keep on re-electing these fork tongued charmers, then we are going to have to sleep in the bed they made. And I don't know about you, but I am not counting on a good nights sleep.
“Hi Premier Chan. This is your old bud Barack. How about another 17 trillion?”
or
Howdy King, this is your loyal subject Obama, I appreciate you pumping all the oil you can, but something else has come up...............
If we all sit home to teach the GOP a lesson, WINNING in 2012 is what will happen to him next.
Better familiarize yourself with the following...
trillion
quadrillion
quintillion
sextillion
septillion
octillion
nonillion
decillion
undecillion
duodecillion
tredecillion
quattuordecillion
quindecillion
sexdecillion
septendecillion
octodecillion
novemdecillion
It’s like Crackerjacks - “A Prize On Every Page!”
Let the bill stand. Obama will forever be known as the incompetent clown who crashed the economy.
At some point, it is beyond fixing.
Let the bill stand. Obama will forever be known as the incompetent clown who crashed the economy.
At some point, it is beyond fixing.
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