Let's not forget that the CBid forum is also a microcosm of America too!
Polls are inherently slanted and are used to take a "pulse". They aren't end all be all facts. Anyone that's ever studied them knows the questions are slanted to produce a desired answer. Now what's coming to light is that there is rampant over or under sampling to produce a desired "effect".
ANYONE that trusts the Fed and their numbers needs their head examined. That is the biggest threat to America today and they're going unchecked.
Anyone that trusts the numbers from our government needs to wake up! They're lying. Even the "unpartisan" Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has been caught fudging the numbers so the House and Senate can ram what they want through!
President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation of the law until 2014, so it would appear cheaper under the CBO's standard ten-year budget window and, at least on paper, meet Obama's pledge that the legislation would cost "around $900 billion over 10 years." When the final CBO score came out before passage, critics noted that the true 10 year cost would be far higher than advertised once projections accounted for full implementation.
Today, the CBO released new projections from 2013 extending through 2022, and the results are as critics expected: the ten-year cost of the law's core provisions to expand health insurance coverage has now ballooned to $1.76 trillion. That's because we now have estimates for Obamacare's first nine years of full implementation, rather than the mere six when it was signed into law. Only next year will we get a true ten-year cost estimate, if the law isn't overturned by the Supreme Court or repealed by then. Given that in 2022, the last year available, the gross cost of the coverage expansions are $265 billion, we're likely looking at about $2 trillion over the first decade, or more than double what Obama advertised.
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/cbo-obamacare-cost-176-trillion-over-10-yrs/425831
"I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” (or “We’re from the government and we’re here to help you") should scare the living hell out of anyone!
