@El_Tino Said
Is it? The 2009 budget was 3.5T, revenue was 2.1T. So, in order to not borrow any money you'd have to cut 1.4 Trillion from the budget. How do you propose to do that? The alternative is to default on the debt.
You said "Not spend any money at all". = Hyperbole
We need to do away with whole cabinet positions and their attendant, wasteful, massively expensive, intrusive bureaucracies, which are doing what the states should be doing or should not be done at all.
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How much exactly is "Obamacare" costing the federal government this year?
Now you're quibbling. I'm talking about when the bulk of it kicks in. But it is doing damage already. People and business are working and planning under uncertainty, which is stifling the economy.
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If Medicare is going bankrupt, and Obamacare cuts Medicare, then Obamacare is a step away from bankruptcy.
The point is the government can't even run Medicare, Medicare is and they are cutting Obamacare benefits to help finance the deficit creating, management nightmare, Obamacare. And he's already started passing out Obamacare waivers to his friends.
The double standard is piling up in heaps.
"By early December, HHS had granted 222 such waivers to provide mini-med policies for companies including AMF Bowling and Universal Forest Product, as well as 43 union organizations. According to the department's website, the waivers cover 1,507,418 employees, of which more than a third (525,898) are union members. Yet unionized workers make up only 7% of the private work force. Whatever is going on here, a disproportionately high number of waivers are being granted to administration allies.
"On Dec. 21, Ms. Sebelius announced that insurance companies seeking rate increases of 10% or more in the individual or small group market must publicly justify the hikes under standards set by her department.
"Insurance regulation has traditionally been a state responsibility, and 43 states must already approve proposed insurance-rate increases. ObamaCare does not authorize HHS to deny rate increases, but the agency said that if a state "lacks the resources or authority" to conduct the kind of review the agency wants, it will conduct its own.
"This proposed regulation will erode the states' dominant role in insurance regulation, centralizing more power in Washington. The HHS announcement also mentioned that it will set different thresholds of what constitutes an "unreasonable" increase for every state by 2012."--WSJ