Megan McA: Is health care reform falling apart?
Tax the sick: Obama's new plan. Maybe people would rather die than pay the taxes.
Betsy: Phony budget promises. Everybody knows they're phony.
Related from Sowell: Magic Numbers in Politics
Jules has a plan to either never die, or at least to be prepared for combat.
Applause when Robert Reich mentions letting old people die. Sheesh.
Over my dead body. Home Depot's Bernie Marcus:
...when it comes to the government's health care program, Marcus said, "I see a very bleak future for health care in the United States, if we pass government controlled health care. The Congress, the federal workers do not participate. This is for you and for me. I mean come on, give me a break will you, please."
Love this. A Viking quote:
This is why I like engineers more than I like politicians. Engineers live in the real world. What they design has to actually function as advertised. So they don’t promise an airplane that is extremely fast, extremely fuel efficient, extremely quiet, and extremely safe. Those goals, each desirable individually, are mutually incompatible given the laws of physics. Politicians live in the political world and need only make sure that the bridges they build and the aircraft they design don’t crash in ruins before the next election. So they blithely ignore the laws of economics and human nature in designing programs. The political press corps equally pretends these laws don’t exist.
Precisely. All through this debate on the mother of all entitlements, nobody has acknowledged the elephant in the room that we're already locked into a mountain of debt due to exploding spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. So the Senate Finance Committee makes up stories to pretend the money is there but it's already been spent ten-times-to-Sunday.
