We Pay Politicians To Lie To Us
John Stossel points out that the “deficit reduction” in the health care bill is more misdirection and sleight of hand than reality.
It’s amazing how precise government gets when estimating the cost of 10 years of subsidized medical care. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill was scored not at $850 billion, but $849 billion. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her bill would cost $871 billion.
How do they do that?
The key to magic is misdirection, fooling the audience into looking in the wrong direction.
I happily suspend disbelief when a magician says he’ll saw a woman in half. That’s entertainment. But when Harry Reid says he’ll give 30 million additional people health coverage while cutting the deficit, improving health care and reducing its cost, it’s not entertaining.
Read the whole thing.
And when the liberals try to convince you that this health care “reform” is deficit-neutral, or even more incredibly deficit-reducing, laugh in their faces.
