It’s the deficits, stupid. USA Today:
Lawmakers said Sunday that President Obama must scale back ambitious plans to overhaul health care because ballooning budget deficits are undermining support for more comprehensive and costly legislation.
As the White House prepares to release worse-than-expected deficit projections this week, even Democrats in Congress said that whatever health care bill emerges this fall will have to cost less than the $1 trillion price tag contemplated earlier this year.“It’s going to have to be significantly less than what we’ve heard talked about,” Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., one of six senators from both parties seeking a bipartisan health care bill, said on CBS’ Face the Nation. “We’ve got to have the deficit reduced as a result of this effort. That is absolutely imperative.”
Renewed criticism over the health care proposals pending in Congress comes as lawmakers hear from angry voters at town-hall-style meetings across the country during the August recess. Much of the concern has focused on the proposed government-run insurance program known as the “public option.”
Hence the distractions being thrown out to the media. Lure them away from the 30% growth in the 10-year deficit projections. Make sure they stay silent about those rising numbers. Make sure they stay silent about Obama’s one year multiplication of last year’s deficit by a factor of four. Obscure the rising number of unemployed. Mask the fact that the US is still in recession when other country’s are already pulling out. Make sure the distraction is complete before people see what is actually happening.
