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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (14838)	3/19/2010 4:20:21 PM
From: Sdgla	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

No it's not. CBO is a non-partisan arbiter. You guys always shoot the messenger. Gets old. Your argument is what is getting old. Your not addressing the issues that Ryan raised : PAUL RYAN: So they're cutting a half a trillion out of Medicare. That's supposed to go to Medicare and make it solvent. But they're using it instead as a piggy bank to pay for this new program. So they're taking it from Medicare, but at the same time they're claiming they're extending Medicare's solvency. So they're counting those cuts twice, when in fact they're using this money to create a new entitlement. Then they have all these tax increases, which the dollars for these tax increases are already spoken for for Social Security, for this new entitlement, for long-term care called the CLASS Act which are spoken for those programs. But they're counting it to fund this new program. So they're basically saying, "We're going to spend in both places the same dollar," which the CBO is telling them, "You can't do that." Non-partisan yes, but with the caveat "garbage in garbage out." When all the submitted data is manipulated by the very political hacks attempting to drive us into bankruptcy to achieve their goals of the nanny state there is no non-partisan data to trumpet.