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To: tejek who wrote (557187)	3/26/2010 7:22:04 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571385

Ted, > That's right......as I understand it, the Dems infiltrated the CBO with some of their own members.... No, you don't understand it, and it's obvious you really don't want to. Even the CBO numbers can be manipulated: findarticles.com > To the credit of CBO, even critics admit that the office is neutral and does the best forecasting possible given the inherent uncertainties in projecting long-term government spending. But consider that it's not the agency's neutrality that matters, but how politicians use CBO to advance their own policy agenda. After CBO priced early estimates of healthcare reform above the magic number of $1 trillion. Democrats got scared, and then got crafty. Using an accounting sleight-of-hand, Democrats have now pushed most of the actual cost of their "reform" agenda outside the ten-year budget window. > CBO generally limits all cost estimates to a ten-year period. Democrats know this, and a majority of the federal subsidies included in their current healthcare bill won't begin until 2014. Even Sen. Max Baucus, the early architect of the Senate legislation, admitted that the actual ten-year cost is well over $1 trillion. Tenchusatsu