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

To: Alighieri who wrote (15841)	3/31/2010 6:38:17 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Reality...yes...the reality of republican tax, war and entitlement policies during the bush administration and the reality of previously existing entitlements from before the Bush administration, and the reality of two recessions, and the reality of 9/11, Katrina, and other expensive issues, and the reality of extra federal spending in non-entitlement, non-defense/war, non-security areas such as extra education spending. The CBO projections had very unrealistic assumptions built in to them. Drop all of the policy changes you've been objecting to and we still would not have had massive surpluses. If you think the CBO thinks differently find something from them that says so after the fact. Oh yeah? What laws? The laws creating entitlements. Don't change the subject. I'm not. The subject is debts and deficits. The bailout and stimulus programs are big contributors to deficits and debt.