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“Suppose someone - say, the president of United States - proposed the following: We are drowning in debt. More than $14 trillion right now. I've got a great idea for deficit reduction. It will yield a savings of $230 billion over the next 10 years: We increase spending by $540 billion while we increase taxes by $770 billion. […] As National Affairs editor Yuval Levin pointed out when mining this remarkable nugget, this is a hell of a way to do deficit reduction: a radical increase in spending, topped by an even more radical increase in taxes. […] In fact, the whole Obamacare bill was gamed to produce a favorable CBO number. Most glaringly, the entitlement it creates - government-subsidized health insurance for 32 million Americans - doesn't kick in until 2014. That was deliberately designed so any projection for this decade would cover only six years of expenditures - while that same 10-year projection would capture 10 years of revenue. With 10 years of money inflow vs. six years of outflow, the result is a positive - i.e., deficit-reducing - number. Surprise.”
— By Charles Krauthammer, Friday, January 21, 2011 (washingtonpost.com)
How does one debunk phony arithmetic? Most common-sensible people would say via arithmetic logic. There is a caveat, however — the audience to be persuaded must be conversant with arithmetic logic.
I have watched and heard Charles Krauthammer (during his regular appearances on Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Bret Baier") debunk, numerous times, the phony leftist talking-points underpinning the deficit-reducing "virtue" of Obamacare. The hopelessness of Charles' efforts is written all over his face, as a sad smile emerges from Bret Baier's empathy.
People with a modicum of common sense and an elementary grasp of arithmetic understand that Obamacare does not compute. Such people also understand that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) computes its numbers based on prescribed algorithms and input provided by Congressional charlatans. "Garbage in; garbage out" is a fundamental axiom of computing.
Nevertheless, the slavish Obama-supporters with $-shaped dilated-pupils can't/won't understand any of this. All they care about is how big government will provide them with good jobs, good housing, cheap gasoline, and free lunch, none of which is possible even in principle. Sigh.
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