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To: MJ who wrote (424)	4/24/2012 12:39:59 AM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 826

Washington Post: $713 billion error no big deal April 17, 2012 by Don Surber In March 2010, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid invoked the Byrd rule to pass Obamacare into law on a simple majority under the premise that Obamacare would reduce the deficit. This action came two months after the majority of voters in Massachusetts elected Republican Scott Brown to the Senate in protest to Obamacare. Now, 2 years later, we discover that the premise was a lie. Obamacare will not cut the deficit by $186 billion over 10 years but rather will expand the deficit by as much as $527 billion. That means it could be an error of $713 billion. Big deal said the Washington Post. Editors at the newspaper put this shocking news on Page A3. Never mind that the very premise of passage of Obamacare hinged on whether the plan increased or decreased the deficit, the Washington Post did not think the story was a big deal... blogs.dailymail.com credit toTimF