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In 1964 under LBJ - when there were 2 Democrats for every 1 Republican, He decided that medicare would become the focus of his administration.

They came up with a plan that was 100% self funded by payroll taxes and health care premimums it was called “ElderCare.” It isn’t going to cost the tax payer anything other than the payroll deduction is the way they sold it. It will stay self funded by adjusting the payroll tax and the premimums they crowed.

In committee when asking the Social Security Actuarian to use the same math model and applying it as if medicare had started in 1959 and work forward to the present day, if they would have achieved the success of it being self funded. The actuarian said he would have to work that out.

A week later the Actuarian came back and said that no - it would not have met the criteria it would right now be underfunded by at least 50% and in some estimations up to 100%.

So when a Democrat tells you it is going to create Jobs, Jobs,Jobs,Jobs or it will not increase the deficit you better plan on an increase of 80% and a loss of jobs.

However this President thinking he and God have at least one thing in common - (No birth certificate) and perform miracles, and in any case he can send out his Chicago thugs and Acorn to shut the opposition up and use black mail to shut the politicians up, is bold enough to Lie to the American people without even a blink of his teleprompter eye. Then come out a few days later and say something totally opposite but since he says it so smoothly people don’t even care.

He reminds me of a magician I once saw at a carnival(not the cream of the crop) who talked to the audience about himself so that they wouldn’t notice what he was doing with his hands. He was very clever at it and had you looking around the room instead of at him - one thing wrong, in just three sentences he went from being 40 to 55 in two different sentences and born in Chicago to born in New York. They were close enough together that most people caught him at it.

In the end, Those that followed his directions as he spoke thought he was a good magician that lied, and others who alternated between his hands and his directions thought he was a lousy magician but basically honest.

The few that kept their eyes on his hands and listened to his words thought he was a lousy liar and an even lousier magician.

Obama is counting on the fact that Americans can’t watch his hands and listen to his words at the same time so he can alternate between lying and picking our pockets without provoking a firestorm of rage from a majority of people.