Unfulfilled promise or lie?
Health insurance premiums are climbing, despite President Obama’s promise that if we passed his reform plan they would drop by $2,500 a year for most families.
A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation underlines that many of the promises surrounding President Obama’s health care legislation remain unfulfilled, though the White House argues that change is coming.
Workers at the Flora Venture flower shop in Newmarket, NH, remember when presidential candidate named Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., promised that their health care costs would go down if they elected him and his health care plan was enacted.
On May 3, 2008, the president told voters that he had “a health care plan that would save the average family$2,500 on their premiums.”
Last year workers at the flower shop saw their insurance premiums shoot up 41 percent.
The lies are just going to keep on coming. Does Obamacare bend the cost curve down? No. Will you be able to keep your plan? No.
I ask again, why doesn’t this guy run?
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I've never understood the attraction of Paul Ryan to otherwise sharp and thoughtful conservative writers. (Of which I consider you to be one of the best.)
His voting record is abysmal. Starting in the Bush years he expanded government and did so by repeatedly adding to the deficit.
Ryan as a free-marketeer? He supported Sarbanes-Oxley, TARP, the Auto Bailouts and voted to have government dictate CEO pay via confiscatory clawback taxes.
His actual proposals have plenty of issues too. His "Path to Prosperity" plan relies on overly optimistic numbers to a fault. In that plan he calls for a 25% top corporate tax rate, which is still higher than most European nations and the same as Communist China's. So much for "ambitious."
His plan for Medicare relies on means testing, which is a nice way to say redistribution of wealth.
Don't want to forget his support of taxpayer subsidized ethanol programs.
This isn't about the perfect being the enemy of the good. This is about the honest exposing the frauds. I understand the current climate in Washington, but Ryan's record is completely contrary to his rhetoric. It's a shame so many bright people buy into the myth that he's something other than a big spending, big government pol. He receives far more kudos than he deserves.