This is how we elect people into office in this country while having no idea what they stand for. By the time the election rolls around, no one will have any idea what anyone's policy really is. Most people don't even know current policies because nothing is written so a layman can understand it and everyone describes it to their advantage with no relation to the truth. Neither side is totally honest here about it and I guess that shouldn't surprise me. What does surprise me is how each side is convinced the other side is lying :o) Heck, they are all lying! Hasn't that been obvious since our very first election?



>>From what I read it's also about the senate wanting to include kids who live in homes with income up to $83,000. That would mean that it would cover kids that should already have private medical insurance... if their parent(s) chose to get insurance through their employer.
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>In immortal words of The Decider,
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>“It is estimated by -- well, here’s the thing, just so you know, this program expands coverage --- federal coverage -- up to families earning $83,000 a year. That doesn't sound poor to me. The intent of the program was to focus on poorer children, not adults or families earning up to $83,000 a year.”
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>... which means you didn't read the article at http://democrats.senate.gov/journal/entry.cfm?id=284843 (from the first message) at all, where it says
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>"There is nothing in the agreement that changes current law rules on interpretation and approval of appropriate income levels for eligibility above 200 percent of the federal poverty level (or 50 percent above a state’s Medicaid income cap) – this decision remains one that the HHS Secretary makes, just as in the original CHIP law written by a Republican-led Congress. [HR 976, 2007]"
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>I think I should thank you for a perfect and very fast demonstration of how the echo chamber works. The thread begins with a debunk of the Immortal Words, showing them to be, well, bunk. Within four or five hours you come back with the same thing that was debunked in the beginning of the thread, and yours was only a third level of reply (Forman -> Feldstein -> Schneider -> Ahn).
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>It really doesn't matter who says what, as long as what G2WB says is repeated often enough and becomes truthiness.