Numbers

To the Editor:

I suggested in my letter that in order to make the numbers work, much of the cost of Obamacare was to be transferred to the consumers and taxpayers in various ways outside of the actual health care bill that Feingold supported. The Democrats who gave us this law had to fudge the numbers in order to sell the Obama health care reform plan.

Feingold continues to insist that there is over a trillion dollars of deficit reduction in the “following decade.” I’m wondering which “following decade” Feingold has in mind. When dealing with a politician, you better get their terms defined. Feingold states that he got his figures from the Congressional Budget Office. How the CBO ground that piece of meat has nothing to do with real accounting and Sen. Feingold knows it.

I am steadfast in my assertion that Obamacare will cost trillions to administer over and above the already bankrupting costs of Medicare and Social Security. There was never a program enacted of this magnitude that didn’t vastly exceed its original budget. Proponents of big government always have to fudge the numbers to make their plans look good.

It is true that if you repeat a lie often enough, many people will come to believe it. That is the tactic that Feingold is using to justify his 60th Obamacare vote to the people of Wisconsin. That vote and the near-trillion stimulus bill that Feingold supported are bad for this country.

Remember that next November.
Dennis Gasper
Plymouth