Hoft calls Schakowsky a "crazy radical" for accurately noting that public option would reduce deficit
July 26, 2010 6:44 am ET by Media Matters staff
In a July 25 Gateway Pundit post, Jim Hoft called Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) a "crazy radical" for saying that a public option will reduce the deficit. In fact, as Media Matters has noted, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the public option would save "about $68 billion" through 2020.
From Hoft's post:
This crazy radical just will not stop...
Do you remember when Rep. Jan Schakowsky bragged that Obama's nationalized health care plan would destroy the insurance industry?
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Now this radical leftist is out telling supporters that the public option will reduce Obama's record deficit.
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Sure it will, Jan.
All I found was another link, to another GP item that didn't seem to be about the deficit.
JUdging by the comments at both GP articles, that doesn't seem to matter to their visitors. They seem to enjoy writing Marxist and communist.
Funniest comment; one of the wingnuts states something as fact, backing it up with "according to Beck...".
Where I work, we had our annual "Getting-f***ed-by-the-Insurance-Company" meeting. Our premiums are going up 30%. I could have bought a new car this year, but instead, I get to help the Insurance Company bribe a few more Congressmen.
Our economy is consumer-driven. It only makes sense that if people are spending so much of their income on health insurance, they're not buying other products.
Our insurance broker related a little horror story about a woman who works in a grocery store. 100% of her income goes to buy insurance for her family. That's obscene.