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NYTimes Op-Ed Admits Obamacare will increase deficit by $500B+

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Posted by lord garth 2010-03-22 07:41|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I'm rather astonished that the NY Times allowed any facts detrimental to the leftist position out ever.

Posted by AzCat 2010-03-22 10:03|| 2010-03-22 10:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn them for sitting on this! Were this to have been released a week ago, it would have changed the entire debate about the bill.

When did the supposedly free press become part of the problem instead of the solution?

Perhaps we should be going after these people who mislead the public in far worse ways than the politicians do.

Posted by Beldar Threreling9726 2010-03-22 10:47|| 2010-03-22 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Only $56 billion per year? The NYT are as delusional as Obama voters. Whoops, they're one and the same.

Posted by ed 2010-03-22 10:58|| 2010-03-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 This news release is orchistrated by the Democrats, of which NYT is a mouth piece. They will now use these numbers to push for additional taxes and industrial nationalisation to pay for the until now unreportef costs.

Posted by Elmaiger Hatfield7630 2010-03-22 11:17|| 2010-03-22 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 These numbers will also be used to justify health care rationing, long wait times for treatment, and out right rejection of expensive treatment. Unless you are a part of the new ruling class, ther Federal Government which then you are part of the new gravy train. They report to the King Obama in DC ("Da' Castle").

Posted by Elmaiger Hatfield7630 2010-03-22 11:29|| 2010-03-22 11:29|| Front Page Top

#6 It's a signed Op-Ed contribution, not a NYT editorial. The author is Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005. IIRC Holtz-Eakin's a Republican.

Posted by lex 2010-03-22 13:17|| 2010-03-22 13:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes, buy again, "No Crisis Should Be Waisted". Their Strategists are not stupid. They know they cannot put this out with them as the source. This information would have been a show stopper if the NYT used it prior to yesterday. Now they need it for a different reason. To reduce end user expectations.

Posted by Elmaiger Hatfield7630 2010-03-22 13:37|| 2010-03-22 13:37|| Front Page Top

#8 To reduce end user expectations.
Posted by Elmaiger Hatfield7630

Spot on Hatfield. Expectation Management, an early start. Blaming the Bush years and a lagging economy soon to follow.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-22 13:45|| 2010-03-22 13:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, buy again, "No Crisis Should Be Waisted".

:)
Quoted for the truth, the fun, and awesome name.

Posted by Shipman 2010-03-22 16:50|| 2010-03-22 16:50|| Front Page Top

#10 The MSM has aided and abetted the destruction of this country. They are going broke; no one trusts them. Well, we will see where they end up in a country that is broke. It appears the CBO may not be as non-partisan as touted. The author is Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005. How can the estimates be so far off in today's CBO? They could have come up with a better cost estimate and it would have torpedoed the present health care bill that passed. Hmmmmm.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-22 17:01|| 2010-03-22 17:01|| Front Page Top

#11 The MSM has aided and abetted the destruction of this country. They are going broke; no one trusts them

Don't worry Obama will raise taxes on the rich (for very small values of 'rich') and give the money to the state run media.

Posted by DMFD 2010-03-22 17:55|| 2010-03-22 17:55|| Front Page Top

#12 How can the estimates be so far off in today's CBO?

Easy, the CBO is required to produce an estimate based on the legislation & assumptions that are given to them. They operate under rules which greatly essentially eliminate their ability to examine reality in the face of their being presented with a pack of blatant lies. Fantasy in --> fantasy out.

Posted by AzCat 2010-03-22 18:03|| 2010-03-22 18:03|| Front Page Top

#13 So the deck is easily stacked by whatever administration is in power and wants to game it that way.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-22 18:43|| 2010-03-22 18:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Ad the scumbag press let us down again. When we people see that its time to tear apart the MSM? They are one of the causes of the disease that now infects our republic.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-03-22 21:38|| 2010-03-22 21:38|| Front Page Top

#15 FREEREPUBLIC > NEWS BUSTERS > AL SHARPTON: THE AMERICAN PUBLIC OVERWHELMINGLY VOTED FOR SOCIALISM WHEN THEY ELECTED OBAMA.

Also from NEWS BUSTERS > GUILIANI: OBAMA'S NUMBER ONE PRIORITY WAS "IDEOLOGICAL COMMITMENT" TO GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF MEDICINE. "Instead of PRIVATIZING ... We are taking MORE ROLES OF THE ECONOMY FOR THE US GOVERNMENT, and its not an exaggeration to say that we [USA] are starting to look more like a EUORPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY THAN AN AMERICAN FREE-MARKET SOCIETY".

* FOX NEWS AM [paraph] > PASSAGE OF [so-called] "OBAMACARE" means POTUS BAMMER will go down in history [ME > MAHA-RUSHIAN "HISTOIRE"] as EITHER THE GREATEST POTUS IN US HISTORY OR THE WORST SINCE JIMMY CARTER.

IOW, POTUS BAMMER = WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, LINCOLN, ROOSEVELT(S), KENNEDY, REAGAN + BUSHES, etc.

versus

POTUS JIMBO.

The good news for the BAMMER is that IIRC FOX NEWS AM didn't mention or link POTUS BILL wid JIMBO, or OTHER. IOW, everything + nothing is good for POTUS BILL which is indir good for the Bammer.

BAMMER > As per MSM-Net rants, could also be the GREATEST MUSLIM, DEMOLIB, COMMIE-SOCIALIST, ASIAN, AFRICAN, ANTI-CAPITALIST/FREE MARKET/PRIV, + even NON-AMERICAN = NON-QUALIFIED AMERICAN AMER POTUS E-V-A-R, iff he can ever formally admit to being one, or a few???

In any case, IMO YEAR 2012 + PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION includ IRAN > again, will DETERMINATIVELY/CONCLUSIVELY decide "AMERICA-VS-AMERIKA, OWG-MIGHTY-USSA-VS-OWG-WEAK-USRoA" STRATEGIC PATH.

But, I digress ....

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-22 23:09|| 2010-03-22 23:09|| Front Page Top

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