Scare Tactics: Obama Says USA Will ‘Go Bankrupt’ if Senate Bill Not Passed

You mean if we don’t add a trillion dollars to the deficit then the country will … go … bankrupt?

Is it Opposite Day?

President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.”

The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails.

“If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you,” he said. “Potentially they’re going to drop your coverage, because they just can’t afford an increase of 25 percent, 30 percent in terms of the costs of providing health care to employees each and every year. “

The president said that the costs of Medicare and Medicaid are on an “unsustainable” trajectory and if there is no action taken to bring them down, “the federal government will go bankrupt.”

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Posted Dec 16th 2009 at 5:01 pm in Healthcare, Obama | 47718164 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2009/12/16/scare-tactics-obama-says-usa-will-go-bankrupt-if-senate-bill-not-passed/Scare+Tactics%3A+Obama+Says+USA+Will+%27Go+Bankrupt%27+if+Senate+Bill+Not+Passed2009-12-17+01%3A01%3A19Dana+Loesch

Harry Reid Wants to Vote on a Phantom Bill (Dem Dirty Tricks Edition)

Either Thursday or later this week, Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev) wants the Senate to vote on a “motion to proceed” on the Senate’s version of the healthcare bill. That wouldn’t be so bad except for the fact that it has barely been seen by anyone in the Senate. At least not as far as most Senators are concerned. Why is that? Because the bill has not been shown to them with sufficient time to study it, that’s why.

What Reid wants is for the Senate to vote to proceed on a bill that has not been seen, not read, not studied by the very Senators from whom he wants to force a vote. If this bill is so important, why isn’t it imperative that our Senators actually get to see the thing they are expected to vote on?

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