Deficit Out of Control: Heatlh Care INSANITY? AARP Medicare Betrayal?

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday."


President Obama: "We cannot sustain deficits of this size without disaster." (a month or so ago)


Do you understand how absurd it is to suggest "paying for" an overhaul of health care? And the mainstream media keeps calling Sarah Palin dumb!!!!!!!!


If we can "find" any extra money for the Federal Government (major spending reduction anyone?), EVERY DIME of that money is needed to reduce the out-of-control deficit. It is absolutely ridiculous to talk of any such money being used to "pay for" health care overhaul. That is like a person with a $50,000 credit card debt using the income from a second job to "pay for" a new car. Dave Ramsey would foam at the mouth if someone suggested that was rational, and yet leftist Democrats, including Obama and the mainstream media, act like it is perfectly rational to talk about "paying" for health care overhaul without worrying about "paying for" the spending we are doing, and the debt we have already incurred.


Look at AARP, whose power hungry, money hungry management has been out supporting health care reform (the AARP management having been bouught off, in one way or another, to betray their members). How can we talk about spending ONE DIME on health care "reform" when the issue is whether we are going to be able to save Medicare and Social Seucrity. Obama even talks about using Medicare "savings" to finance health care "overhaul", when any such (doubtful) "savings" are desperately needed to save Medicare itself.


Bottom line: We can't afford a single dime to finance an "overhaul" of health care, and that applies to any "extra" money we may "find" (or "save" from other programs--"save" being a word of art only meaning that the deficit in such programs is less than it otherwise would have been, but still unsustainable large).


Yes, this entry again applies to linguine spined Republicans, and conservatives like Betsy McCoy, who seem inclined to spend money we don't have bribing the middle class. Nope. Neither Republicans or Democrats should be spending a single dime on a new Federal health care "entitlement". Seniors (I am one, at 62) should realize, as they mostly do in their bones, that every dime spent on a new health care overhaul is another nail in the coffin of Medicare and Social Security.


Yes, a central planning, Federal "overhaul" of health care is a bad idea, even if we could afford it (in the short run). Even if it were a good idea, in the abstract, that is irrelevant right now. We simply cannot afford it. Anyone who says otherwise is clinically INSANE.


Did I just call our President, a good part of our Congress, and our mainstream media clinically insane? Well, if the shoe (or glove) fits, wear it. The fundamental definition of almost all insanity is "disconnection from reality". I rest my case.