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Originally Posted by jerryb
You know .... at first I thought Glenn Beck was a total nutcase filled with buffoonery and visual insanity but .... then I listened to the general message. And guess what? He is basically saying we are spending ourselves into oblivion and using a shell game of moving money back and forth so we, the taxpayers, loses track of it. Don't judge him by his visual antics ... just listen to what he is saying. I'd say he is right most of the time. Washington sure does NOT want to answer his questions.
He was right on Van Jones, Acorn, etc. Washington sure did not want to talk about it did they? And, THEY SURE DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE ARE GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THIS OTHER CRAP THEY ARE PROPOSING ... INCLUDING THE STEALTH PROGRAM.
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Actually, they have been pretty open about how they plan to pay for the health care bill. It will come from a mix of cuts to medicare, taxes on high end health insurance policies, taxes on some cosmetic procedures (oddly enough included in this was taxes on tanning). It would also impose new fees of billions of dollars a year on insurers, medical-device makers, pharmaceutical makers and others. So it is pretty clear how they plan to pay for it and they claim it will actually cut the deficit. Of course I don't think you can really know for sure how much this is going to cost until it actually goes into action. Not to mention those that will get higher taxes will quickly find ways around paying them so the income to pay for the program will drop.
All of this, of course, is secondary to the fact that while the health care bill will help a lot of people it is nowhere near the reform that is needed. When they first started talking about this I said that I felt they would either never pass anything of real value and nothing would change or they would pass something that had some value but was bloated and expensive and would cost billions. It looks like I was wrong because they seem to have done both.