Tom Bevan meditates on a Bob Herbert column and wonders if our president is knowingly lying or engaging in wishful thinking:
So Obama's assertion that he can expand coverage and care without adding a dime to the deficit over the next ten years is, by the admission of even one of his most ardent supporters, a claim that virtually no one believes. Generally speaking, when someone makes a claim that no one believes it's characterized as a lie.(H/T Contentions) The unavoidable paradox I see here is that Obama claims Medicare is a program so full of waste and abuse, that we can magically find a half-trillion dollars to fund a brand-new government-run health care program that will be super-efficient, we pinky-swear.
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Richard Perle:
"Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will."
Paul Wolfowitz:
"There is a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people. We are talking about a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon."
Kenneth Pollack:
"It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars."
Donald Rumsfeld:
"When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community."
So your retarded retort is that we should continue on the same path? What the fuck kind of 'change' is that?
Hey look! Our economy is in the eary stages of total systemic collapse! Time to borrow a trillion dollars and throw it down yet another entitlement black hole.
Republican carry plenty of blame what's going on right now, but Democrats are going to "own" this disaster for all time.
Just came across this blog today, and really enjoyed it! Keep up the good work.
I posted a very funny YouTube video about Obama and the current debate over the size of government today on my site. Check it out:
http://rjmoeller.com/2009/09/obama-and-the-white-stripes-a-youtube/
Hey look! North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad wants the CBO to measure health care proposals with a 20-year window. Even though the CBO always uses a 10-year projection formula.
Let's recall that the Bush administration shortened the budget window from 10 years to 5, in order to downplay the true size of the deficit.
And yet, when President Obama's budget restored the usual 10-year measurement, North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad had it changed back to 5 years because of... wait for it, waaaait for it... "because of the uncertainty of long-range forecasts."
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