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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Republicans Cannot Be Trusted With Our Money

What BooMan Said:
[W]e can spend a trillion dollars and cover thirty million uninsured Americans and the effect on the budget will be to save $1.3 trillion over the next twenty years… [That's] what the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the health care bill will do. According to DCCC chair, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, those numbers mean that the health care bill is the biggest deficit reduction bill since Bill Clinton's 1993 Economic Plan. That bill, known as the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, didn't win a single Republican vote in the House or the Senate. In fact, the Senate vote was 50-50 and vice-president Al Gore cast the deciding vote. Notice, also, that it was a budget reconciliation bill, which is why it could pass with only 51 votes…. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are the two presidents to enact major budget reduction legislation… [T]he Democrats have a good record on budgets while, despite their rhetoric and branding, the Republicans have a disastrous record.

And if we dirty fucking hippies ever actually got our way we would have an incomparably more fiscally sensible and morally righteous single payer healthcare system, not to mention all the money we would save not engaging in illegal immoral catastrophic war-adventures of choice that make us less safe while squandering the lives and health of countless people and countless dollars that could be invested in education, infrastructure, scientific and medical research instead. Oh well.

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