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Skriven 2012-09-13 16:06:58 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 3874 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
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Hi Roy,

> I don't know how you could support a POS like Obama when he's given us
> nothing but debt on top of dept, to the tune of 5 Trillion Dollars more
> than any previous President.


What was the debt when Bush began his presidency. Without saying, you can't
compare the records of GWB and Barak Obama...

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In 2001, the national debt Bush inherited was around $5.7T, give or take. Some
of that debt in 2001 has to be attributed to Clinton, just as some of the debt
in 2009 when Obama took office has to be attributed to Bush. When W. left
office in 2009, the debt was nearly $11T. That's an increase of 89 percent.

Under Obama, the debt has increased from about $11T to about $15T, about 40
percent.

And what's behind that increase? Historically low taxes and historically low
revenues -- and the worst financial crash since the 1930s. There's been no
"binge" in spending...
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>Obama Care that steals 1 Billion dollars from Medicare

No, sorry untrue..

"While the Affordable Care Act does reduce Medicare spending, as Politifact has
explained, "Those dollars aren't taken out of the current budget, they are not
actual cuts, and nowhere does the bill actually eliminate any current
benefits."

"Instead of targeting beneficiaries, the spending cuts largely come from
reduced payments to hospitals, discounts on prescription drugs and cuts to
private insurers under Medicare Advantage."

The latest report from Medicare trustees does say that the program will be
insolvent by _2024_, but that report also found that the Affordable Care Act --
whose repeal has been made a top priority by Romney and other Republicans --
has significantly improved the financial outlook of the program."

Heh.. If you want sources for these statements, I can dig them up.

Here's another one for you:

"CMS and the Kaiser Family Foundation tell ABC News that there will be no
benefit cuts to Medicare.  They say instead of Medicare's being cut, there will
be much more spending at the end of a 10-year window, but it does slow the rate
of that growth. This is all unless Congress makes drastic changes to Medicare,
for example passing House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan.

CMS says  --  and Kaiser agrees-- that spending will be reduced by getting rid
of fraud and ending overpayments to private insurance companies. It sends a
message to those insurance companies: Operate more efficiently."

Take care,
Janis

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