Posted by
Patrick Henry on Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:50:23 AM
While crooked financier Berniie Madoff rots in prison, Harry Reid is running a scam which, over the next
decade, will make Madoff's swindle look like a church picnic. He's calling it the "public option with an opt
out provision." The hook is that states not wanting to participate in the "public option" can simply choose
not to do so. That Reid and the Senate liberal Democrats think Americans can be duped by so blatant a
falsehood shows how little they think of regular citizens.
Here is the lie: states can opt out of participating, but they can't opt out of paying for it. It's like when you
go to the ice cream shoppe and order a double decker cone. When the clerk serves it up you have to pay
for it. If it doesn't look or taste like you hoped, you can just not eat it. But you can't get your money back.
The Democratic healthcare reform boondoggle has fifty-nine billion dollars in new taes wrapped inside.
Citizens, small businesses and seniors whose Medicare gets cut are still going to have to pay those taxes and
put up with those cuts whether they "opt out" or not.
So what's the difference between plain old government run healthcare and "opt out" hea;thcare. Nothing
but words. Bernie Madoff promised people returns that consistently exceeded the market. And since he
was using new investors' money to pay off old investors he made it look like it worked. Democrats are
doing exactly the same thing with their healtcare reform proposals. They can't deliver the cuts and savings they
promise, or do what they're proposing without increasing the deficit, or do it without egregiously increasing
taxes on the middle class. If you believe they can, you're a bigger sucker than Madoff's entourage. Even
the Congressional Budget Office doesn;t believe it. When you stop believing the adage that when something
seems to good to be true, it probably is, you're just sticking your chin in the air and saying "hit me please."
The Democrats are just itching to oblige.
In the Baucus version of the Senate health bill it was even proposed that granma's wheelchair rental be
taxed. Talk about kicking someone who is down. But they're determined to have their socialized medicine
at any cost, especially when taxpayers are footing that cost. I used to have an old Springer Spaniel named
Duke who'd wander all over the place. But the one thing you knew for sure was that when the dinner plate
started rattling he'd be right there to stick his nose in it. The Democrats are equally reliable. Anytime there's
a new entitlement to be handed out and a new tax to raise they'll do it as reliably as the sun rising in the
morning.
Hopefully there are a few Democrats who have not taken leave of their senses. There is hope for Joe
Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln. Ben Nelson and a few others. But Harry Reid will do everything on top of
and under the table to make them accomplices to his great scam. What if there really was no difference
between a convicted swindler and the Senate Majority Leader? One's in prison. Maybe the other one
should join him so they can have a good laugh together over how they scammed America.