I Guess I Should Sign On Too

Well, here I am, signing onto my own site. Welcome to a new political site. As I write this, it is my hope that we are exiting an era of lunacy- comparing Presidents to Hitler, calling national leaders names, even the shooting of a Congresswoman. Perhaps the era of demonization is ending, perhaps we can have serious discussions. Perhaps not though. We'll try to have serious conversations, about serious issues here, but let's not forget that the House is getting ready to vote tomorrow on the "Repeal of the Job-Killing Health Care Law." Ok, maybe seriousness isn't possible.

Let's treat it serious for a second though. We already know what they say. The bill will raise the deficit, cost jobs, and not cut costs. First off, we'll find out about cost-cutting over the long haul. The other two, we have answers that at least work for now. Yes, the Wall Street Journal editorial page says repealing the Health Care Law won't add to the deficit. That's great, but in the U.S., we use the CBO scoring to determine that, at the time of a bill's passage. While there's a debate about it's accuracy, the CBO says repeal will cost us hundreds of billions. While there are some decent arguments about why CBO is wrong, there are just as good arguments shooting down their arguments. Let's also remember that CBO is our "neutral referee" here. So let's not throw it into the political arena. Even if we take the arguments of pro-repeal folks seriously, all of their arguments are about THIS decade of the bill. They are not disputing the TRILLION dollars plus of savings from the deficit NEXT decade. A forgotten key in this.

So then, let's take a look at the final point the GOP makes, the point it NAMED the repeal act on. Does this bill kill job creation? Apparently not.  Apparently the AP says so. Apparently, the GOP is using some faulty math. See, some people who do not need to work for income at this point (think retirement age folks), do so for the sake of getting employer based health care. They would likely leave the work force if they didn't need to be in it for care. The GOP counted them as "job losses." Oops.

We'll try to keep this very policy and factually based here, and less on simple emotion. Now I know, facts are disputable in today's politics, I understand. Facts are even capable of being marginalized these days. That's fine. We'll do our best to cut through it, and to get to the answers.