The supposed $1 trillion cost of health-care reform is still under attack by Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. Plus Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona said, “There is no way Republicans are going to support a trillion dollar plus bill.”
In addition, a recent letter asked why the Obama plan is “so good for us and our families when your Congressional Budget Office calculates it will increase the national debt an estimated $1 trillion?”
My question is, where have all you people been?
Reagan campaigned that the national debt of almost $1 trillion ($930 billion January 1980) was too high, and then more than doubled it — to $2.602 trillion. This was passed on to George H.W. Bush.
George H. W. Bush passed off a national debt of $4.064 trillion to President Bill Clinton.
President Bill Clinton passed off a national debt of $5.673 trillion to President George W. Bush. In Clinton’s last year he added only $18 billion and had a projected surplus that would have paid off the national debt within a few years.
George W. Bush passed on a national debt of $10.6 trillion to President Obama, and while doing so, added over $5 trillion more in national debt.
Republicans, emulating Yogi Berra, obviously thinking that using the U.S. credit card is not spending real money, have outspent Democrats by $8 trillion!
You Republicans are worried about a projected Obama health-care cost of $1 trillion!
And you call Democrats tax-and-spend liberals!
Max W. Don
Mukilteo
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