Froma Harrop -- columns from the other side

I always find it interesting to read columns by Froma Harrop of the Providence Journal. It's not that she has any particular insight; rather, she never ceases to amaze me with he lock - step liberal gullibility. If a liberal politician says something, harrop always takes it at face value. today's column is a prime example of this idiocy. Harrop announces that the Democrats did a great job for the country. then she throws in this gem: "The Democrats put ordinary Americans on the road to health care security in a reform package that should actually lower government deficits, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Thus, politicians who try to repeal the health care law will have to come up with new taxes and/or spending cuts to preserve those deficit reductions. That's why they won't."

Harrop seems to be the only person with more than a third grade education who actually believes the nonsense that Obamacare will lower the deficit. She should know better. The very CBO figures that harrop cites have since been amended to show that Obamacare will cost over $150 billion dollars in extra spending during the first decade. Of course, anyone who paid attention would also know that there was a companion bill to Obamacare that passed the so-called doctors' fix which adds yet anothe 300 billion dollars to the deficit during the first decade after passage. So, by the government's own figures, Obama care will cost just a shade under half a trillion dollars over the first ten years. And these numbers ignore the major premium increases that most Americans will see over the next few years. That increase in premiums has been estimated to total well over a trillion dollars during the next decade. That gets us up to a net cost of one and a half trillion dollars for this great program that harrop trumpets as "saving" money for Americans. There are other costs beyond the ones I listed, but you get the picture.

Harrop next claims that the enormous savings from this bill will stop Republicans from repealing it. I suggest that she watch what happens. The Democrats may stop the repeal, but the bogus "savings" from the bill will have no effect whatsoever. Indeed, the only American gullible enough to think that there are real savings here seems to be Harrop herself.

At least her ignorance is amusing.