>>I haven't said anything against my own points. My point is simple....he's been making the "if you like your own plan, you can keep it" at different stages over nearly 5 years.
You said: "This was mass-lying and mass-deception, intended to win an election. "
In September 2013? What election would that be? Even if it were true, who would be stupid enough to state such an obvious lie when it was already untrue? Occam's Razor suggests the opposite interpretation.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1