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Medicare: The Next Golden Goose, Pt.3 – The long and winding crooked path.

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Let’s look at some of these distortions:

•  · Statement: I will fix this economy by cutting out all ‘pork-barrel’ spending.
   Implied meaning: This will fix the economy.
   Truth: “Pork-Barrel Spending” – 3% of our budget.
   Evaluation of statement: False.
•  · Statement: I will fix this energy crisis with offshore drilling.
   Implied meaning: Only I have the answer, it’s in drilling.
   Truth: “Off-Shore Drilling” – 3% of the supply from which we require 25%.
   Evaluation of statement: False.
•  · Statement: I’m not gonna leave anyone behind.
   Implied meaning: I’m setting up High-Risk pools so everyone can be covered.
   Truth: Uninsurable population currently being helped by High-Risk pools – 1%.
   Evaluation of statement: False.
•  · Statement: My health insurance tax credit will ‘help’ insure 95% of the people.
   Implied meaning: Almost everyone will be covered, there is no crisis and are no ‘truly needy’ people. These 46 million people don’t really need health insurance, anyway.
   Truth: Uninsured (projected at 67 million) to still have health insurance after 5 years with McCain – 2%.
   Evaluation of statement: False.
•  · Statement: All Obama wants to do is raise everyone’s taxes.
   Implied meaning: Standard of living in America goes out the window from overwhelming taxes. Truth:  Percent of population tax increase with Obama – 5%.
   Evaluation of statement: False.
•  · Same statement and implication as above.
   Truth:  Percent of population tax decrease with Obama – 95%.
   Evaluation of statement: False.
•  · Statement: We can fix the health insurance/care crisis by limiting and capping malpractice lawsuits.
   Implied meaning: This is a chief contributor to the problem.
  Truth:  Malpractice lawsuit damage to health insurance/care costs – 2%.
   Evaluation of statement: False.
•  · Statement: We’ve got to keep Bush’s obscene tax reduction for the filthy rich.
   Implied meaning: They’ll then give it back to us with a healthy ‘Trickle Down’ economy. Lehman Brothers’ Richard Fuld only cheated a little when he collected $250-$480 million before the bankruptcy nose-dive, but everyone else on the top is straight-forward honest.
   Truth: Lehman Brothers’ Richard Fuld was not straight-forward honest and neither is everyone else at the top.
   Evaluation of statement: False.
• · Statement: Casting himself as the ’guardian of small business’ McCain says ‘Obama proposes [to] cut jobs’.
   Implied meaning: 'Joe the Plumber' represents a typical small business.
   Truth: ‘Joe the Plumber’ is at the very top edge of small business (~$250,000) and hopes to move above that soon. This is not a typical small business and not a representative example.
   Evaluation of statement: False.

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