Mr. Obama has published the 10-year numbers in part, it seems, to make the point that the political gridlock of the past few years, in which most Republicans refuse to talk about tax increases and Democrats refuse to talk about cutting entitlement programs, is unsustainable.
Arrrrrggggggg! This is just not true. Health care insurance reform was projected to reduce the deficit by, among other things, raising revenue and cutting back somewhat on existing Medicare entitlements for seniors. And if the liberals had really had their way, and included a robust public option, the deficit would have been cut far more substantially. (All this according to the CBO!)
Meanwhile, it has been the Republicans who have been promising not to cut Medicare, not the Democrats. And it is the Republicans who passed the unfunded expansion of Medicare, the unfunded tax cuts, and financed the unfunded wars of the Bush years.
So the real story is that it is the Republicans who are overwhelmingly responsible for the unsustainable levels of debt that our nation finds itself in. But in the mainstream press you always get the "both sides are to blame" narrative.
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