One week from Tuesday, 18 men and women will begin an attempt to fix, in eight months, what is possibly the country’s greatest problem: the federal budget deficit, national debt and runaway entitlement spending.
Many think they’re doomed to failure.
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Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, said he is going to make “waste, abuse, fraud and inefficiencies” in Medicaid a priority issue and will make sure it gets attention in commission meetings.
“Nobody else is going to focus on that,” Coburn said. “Nobody else thinks the $300 billion that we waste every year is important. Over 10 years that’s $3 trillion. So we’re going to look at that aspect of it.”
Delong retorts:
Total Medicaid spending this year is currently pegged at $280 billion. How Coburn can think that all $280 billion that will be spent this year on Medicaid is waste--plus an extra $20 billion in waste even though we do not spend it--is beyond me.
I don't have a good feeling about this fiscal commission--not at all.
The puzzling question remains unanswered: are Repugnicants so stupid, ignorant and lazy that can't look at public records and/or do simple math, or are they so cynical, callous, and dishonest that facts and truth mean nothing to them?
Either way, we are so screwed.
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4 comments:
Oh yeah.
And they are going to cut the people's programs to the bone.
And soon.
Thanks for running this!
S
or ar they so cynical, callous, and dishonest that facts and truth mean nothing to them?
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While I have NO reason to believe they are anything other than stupid, ignorant and lazy, I'm pretty convinced that cynical, callous, and dishonest wins the prize.
I don't remember where the quote came from, but someone wiser than I stated (more or less) that it's difficult to have someone tell the truth when they can enrich themselves telling lies.
WASF,
JzB
Nicely put.
And it's Upton Sinclair:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Love ya, baby,
S
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"Math is hard."
-- Republican Barbie
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