Capitol Logic: January 2010

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Where's the $500 Billion?

When all the Obamatons were trumpeting the benefits of ObamaCare, they kept telling us that there was $500 billion of "waste, fraud and abuse" in Medicare. Obama told us that they would go after that waste, fraud and abuse; capture all the savings; and use the money to help pay for ObamaCare. Now that ObamaCare is (at least temporarily) dead, where's the talk about the need to eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse from Medicare? If that waste, fraud and abuse really exists - isn't it the responsibility of Obama and Congress to eliminate it and capture those savings regardless of whether ObamaCare survives?
Since they have completely dropped that subject, we're left with only two logical explanations regarding the waste, fraud and abuse:

It doesn't exist and Obama and Congress were making it up to help promote ObamaCare, or
It does exist, and Obama and Congress are being grossly irresponsible and ignoring their fiduciary duties to the American people by failing to eliminate it.

There really are no other logical explanations. Either Obama and Congress were lying, or they are grossly irresponsible (of course they could easily be both liars AND grossly irresponsible, but for this explanation of the ObamaCare charade we have to choose one or the other).

Important Quotes

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic" - Benjamin Franklin
"Even if this country can survive intact and unharmed after the Obama administration-- or, heaven help us, two terms of Obama-- the gullibility that led to his being elected in the first place will still be there for some other slick demagogue to come along and get the power to put the American way of life, and even our physical safety, at risk again." - Thomas Sowell
"Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn't first take from somebody else." - Adrian Rogers
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you have" - Gerald Ford
"Controversy equalizes both fools and wise men - and the fools know it" - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Put bluntly, failure attracts more money than success. Politically, failure becomes a reason to demand more money, smaller classes, and more trendy courses and programs, ranging from "black English" to bilingualism and "self-esteem." Politicians who want to look compassionate and concerned know that voting money for such projects accomplishes that purpose for them and voting against such programs risks charges of mean-spiritedness, if not implications of racism." ~ Thomas Sowell
"We seem to be moving steadily in the direction of a society where no one is responsible for what he himself did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did, either in the present or in the past." ~ Thomas Sowell
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."~ Frank Leahy
"For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance."~ Anthony Beal
"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation." ~Laurence J. Peter
"The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose." ~William Simon
"The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away." ~John S. Coleman
"The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians." ~Steve Forbes
“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” –Margaret Thatcher
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it” - Thomas Sowell

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