Why is he laughing? Must have read this piece by Steny Hoyer in the Wall Street Journal.
Some choice parts:
Americans are rightly outraged over our nation's fiscal situation. The course we're on will lead to public debt that will exceed the size of our entire economy, and a government that will eventually exist to do only two things: fund entitlement programs and make interest payments. Americans may be wondering whether the Greek financial crisis could happen here. Duh, yes!
And here is the punch line:
Health-care costs, as I noted, are one of our main challenges. According to the Congressional Budget Office the health-care bill will put us on a path to bring down those costs,
Oh really? Well Steny, what about this little piece from the other day?
From your own Medicare Services Agency?, and I quote, after a report from its own Medicare services agency showed the provisions will increase the nation's health care tab over the next 10 years instead of bringing costs down.
Any person with half a brain knows the only way to reign in the deficit is to cut spending: and to cut spending we first need to cut Democrats!
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