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healthcare: NO REALITY PLEASE!!! Posted 3/23/2010 3:44 PM CDT on Des Moines Register

As I read a comment last night on this blog and agonized about the passing of the senate bill by the house, I contemplated why facts don’t matter to liberals. The comment sarcastically stated that it must be my first time on CSPAN, and that was why the facts being dispersed were affecting my decision about supporting healthcare or not.

It was stated by the CBO that the healthcare bill would save 120 billion, or so, dollars over the next ten years. Nobody has mentioned that we are going to pay the taxes on it for four years to get ahead of the cost of the full ten years. That’s right we are going to pay for ten years worth of the plan and get 6 years worth of the services. That doesn’t sound at all like skewing the numbers to make it look good, does it?

I asked myself when the info came out abut the plan, How could that be, that you force 560, or so, billion dollars of taxes on to the American public, insure 30 million new people, create 120 new bureaucracies, over 17000 new IRS employees and call the plan a deficit reducer. Not to mention the fact that 46% of doctors polled will either leave, or would if they could leave, the profession should this pass. Nah, there must be some mistake.

Simple economics says that 30 million new people to treat, with fewer doctors and nurses will probably cause the price of the service to rise, unless, that is, that big brother Sam plans on forcing people into the profession. Let’s also mention that that hundreds of billions of increase in taxes will come from the people that create jobs in America the evil rich who make over 200,000 a year. I am sure that, out of the goodness of their hearts, they are going to take a pay cut just so they can hire some poor slob, in order to give him or her a job. I am sure they will

Another little tidbit that the deranged left doesn’t want to think about: in the CBO numbers, I think it was 71 billion of the funds to make this work are going to come out of the Social Security Fund. Now, there’s a great idea. Wasn’t that good ole Social Security Fund hurting for money, wasn’t that what everybody has been fussing about for years. Nah, we shouldn’t worry about that.

But don’t you doctors worry, we are going to increase the amount you get so that more of you will want to buy into the system and serve those on the dole. You watch, when costs start to skyrocket because businesses can’t afford the increases to premiums caused by preexistent conditions etc. the first thing that’s going to get cut is those greedy old doctors. Can’t you see the legislators pining, “ those mean old doctors refuse to serve the poor, so we are going to make them take the reimbursements they no longer will have a choice to opt into the program or not. They really wouldn’t do that, would they?

The same kind of numbers that proved wrong when Medicaid was born will prove again to be unrealistic. I hope that it wont be as bad as the seven times the original planned, quoted, and promised cost of Medicaid. If it turns out that it’s not any better, you are looking at a cost of over seven trillion a year to run this.  That’s 7,000,000,000,000 a year, over half of the current GDP. Did I get the right number of zeros?

After  my pity party of sarcasm, I recognized the reason why the left leaves out the facts:

Life really is more enjoyable if I live in a world colored only by the taint of emotion. One neither has to think to hard nor delve to deep into the root of a problem one only has to rise on wings of hope to nimbly land on the mount of change and thus rise above the rabble swirling around in the chaos of the world trying to understand what makes it all tick.

Was that satire? I think it was.

A little more ominous tone, shall we?

To a progressive/liberal/socialist/Marxist/Leninist, The numbers mean nothing!!! It’s all about making sure that their consciences are soothed concerning making sure everybody has a place to sleep and food to eat and care when they are sick. Check on the percentage of income given by the evil conservatives to charity and you will see that they give far, far higher percentage of their income than do liberals, from the lowest earner to the highest.

YOU ARE A RUSE, A FAKE, AND A WHITED SEPULCHER STINKING FROM WITHIN.  SADLY YOU WILL HEAR, DEPART I NEVER NEW YOU BECAUSE YOU UNDERSTOOD NOT THE SAYING, FEED A MAN A FISH AND YOU FEED HIM FOR A DAY TEACH A MAN TO FISH AND YOU FEED HIM FOR A LIFETIME.

Truly, liberalism is a mental disorder. There is no other way to explain the total irresponsibility they have shown for their stewardship over the constitution and the resources of the American people.

What’s up next for them, they’ve got to get amnesty passed so they can get 30 million more voters to vote for them come November.

But, let’s celebrate. Like Pelosi said this has been coming on since good ole Teddy pushed for it a century or so ago. The progressives have won this round, another straw placed on the camel’s back. Let’s pray the coming judicial fight will be before a conservative member of the court retires or mysteriously dies.Did I say that? They wouldn’t, would they?