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From a great article by AllahPundit on Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air site -
Come to find out that Obama and his quick talking friends and allies in Congress feel like they have solved the problem of the costing that bothered the CBO.
Alas – what the Obamacare proponents are all screaming about as the “Hallelujah Chorus” of the whole Health Care plan that will fix all it’s ills has left the CBO less than dazzled.
A key House chairman and moderate House Democrats on Tuesday agreed to a White House-backed proposal that would give an outside panel the power to make cuts to government-financed health care programs. White House budget director Peter Orszag declared the plan “probably the most important piece that can be added” to the House’s health care reform legislation.
But on Saturday, the Congressional Budget Office said the proposal to give an independent panel the power to keep Medicare spending in check would only save about $2 billion over 10 years- a drop in the bucket compared to the bill’s $1 trillion price tag.
“In CBO’s judgment, the probability is high that no savings would be realized … but there is also a chance that substantial savings might be realized. Looking beyond the 10-year budget window, CBO expects that this proposal would generate larger but still modest savings on the same probabilistic basis,” CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf wrote in a letter to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Saturday.
I join with most of you, my friends in cursing this bill and the plans these people seem to have in place to ram this thing down our throats.
I am so tired of everyone saying “Oh yeah, we know it needs fixing, and we need to do something…..” Wait. Just wait a darn minute.
We can’t afford this. It’s just like having a pay cut, no money in the bank and saying “Oh sure we can afford this mercedes – we’ll just pay for it later – somehow”.
WHAT?
I might not be a high fallutin lawyer or some college graduate with a doctoral thesis to my name, but guys and gals, this seems stupid.
Kinda like saying – I know the car doesn’t have tires on it, but if we plan on paying for a new set later, we should still be able to drive it down the street. The funny part is the idiots driving down the street on rims have the same surprised look on their faces as the people who don’t understand our anger.
OUR ECONOMY IS DYING. IT IS HURTING, PEOPLE ARE OUT OF WORK.
YOU VOTED FOR A STIMULUS THAT WAS BS AND WE KNOW IT.
YOU ARE LYING ABOUT Health Care, EFCA, Illegal immigration and Cap and Trade.
You are trying to harm the people who need the most help – the people trying to rescue this economy – the small to medium businesses and the consumers.
Stop the madness. Let the Reps and Senators know that you will be actively campaigning against them when they come back up for re-election. And FOLLOW THROUGH.
If they get 10000 faxes each that tells them that not only are they losing votes but they see 10000 people WORKING HARD against them for betraying the trust of the country – you can scare them.
Scare their power – they’ll stop the madness. Then elect ‘em out of there anyway to stop them from threatening this mess again later.
HotAir.com article from Instapundit link here
