Healthcare: Who Are the Know-Nothings?

The New Media Journal ^ | Nov 6, 2009 | AJ DiCintio

[NewMediaJournal]

As Tuesday’s vote revealed, Americans are strongly devoted to individualism, one happy aspect of which is that they are possessed of an abhorrence to being told what to think, a truth that explains why people are drawing their own conclusions regarding this question:

Which Americans are behaving with anti-intellectual, hateful ignorance in the debate regarding the Obama/Pelosi/Reid healthcare bills making their way through Congress?

To answer that question, common sense folks begin by stipulating some of what is currently known about the bills, for example —

The final version will be advertised as costing $1 trillion over the next decade. However, the real cost is certain to be shockingly greater for at least two reasons.

First, Congress has never come within a million miles of correctly estimating the actual cost of any of its healthcare plans.

Second, to insure that cost estimates will be low-balled by the CBO, Democrats have put in a fiscal fix that initiates taxes for Obamacare in 2010 but waits until 2013 (conveniently one year after the Election of 2012) to gradually implement the plan.

How to pay for a program that affects 16% of the nation’s economy?

[GeronL]

The people who support what they have not read are the Know-Nothings

[snowrip]

You mean, liberals.

[griswold3]

Americans are strongly devoted to individualism

Growth comes from the bottom up...that means small businesses. What the government is doing right now is ‘crowding out the producers’ or the merchant class. No one who can read a balance sheet, know what a profit margin is or understand an effective tax rate is going to participate in their own destruction. Happens everytime central planning rears its ugly head.
Big Government, Big Business, Big Labor...What could go wrong? (You’re looking at it! Note the ‘PERMANENT’ Job loss in the recent records. It indicates a ‘structural’ change in our economy.)