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Lucylastic -> RE: What ever happened to REAL INTELLIGENT Political debate? (6/13/2011 10:31:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
When people come to a debate without knowing facts and truths from spin and outright lies, you dont stand a chance of intelligent debate.
Oh? What is a spin or lie. You do know that Obama claimed $500 billion in Medicare cuts? Morever, you do know that the CBO included a rare note to their scoring of Obamacare that criticized the administration for attempting to double count the $500 billion, right? Is the "non-partisan" CBO spinning or lying?
"The key point is that the savings to the HI trust fund under the PPACA would be received by the
government only once, so they cannot be set aside to pay for future Medicare spending and, at
the same time, pay for current spending on other parts of the legislation or on other programs.
Trust fund accounting shows the magnitude of the savings within the trust fund, and those
savings indeed improve the solvency of that fund; however, that accounting ignores the burden
that would be faced by the rest of the government later in redeeming the bonds held by the trust
fund. Unified budget accounting shows that the majority of the HI trust fund savings would be
used to pay for other spending under the PPACA and would not enhance the ability of the
government to redeem the bonds credited to the trust fund to pay for future Medicare benefits.
To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government’s ability
to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would
essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the
government’s fiscal position."
Stop with the victim mentality, I wasnt talking about your comments , sheesh calm down dearie.
Look at who I responded to.
NOT YOU
I dont expect you to give sources.
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