Doocy: "Can you really rely on the numbers the Congressional Budget Office comes out with?"

Yea, me too...I definitely trust FOX more. Especially Steve Doocy. ;>)

The CBO numbers are an estimate based on CURRENT LAW, not the law in 2014, 2018, and 2020, the years that ObamaCare kicks in.

Not to mention the CBO magically lost 60 billion dollars from their estimate from a few weeks back to come in under the 1Trillion threshold. How convenient for Barry and the minions selling this boondoggle of a bill. Double counting the premiums for long term care policies and Medicare cuts got them over the hump.

The CBO is the best guess for the numbers that they receive, they don't just pick this data out of thin air. Garbage in, garbage out.

One more thing...the "supposed" budget savings ($138 billion) will be gobbled up when $371 billion is spent on physician fee's which by the way ARE NOT COUNTED against the health bill. Using our higher math...371 billion - 138 billion = Saving?

Only in dem dreamland...

Not only that, Bush cooked the books on his deficits by stealing from the social security surplus (A surplus that has been so big for so long, that despite this plundering and the looming retirement of the baby-boomers, it will be solvent for the forseeable future, but I digress) and by ommitting Iraq war spending from the official budget, and his deficits were still enormous. I remember expressing concern about the size of the deficit to a wingnut aquaintance of mine, and he would hear none of it. He insisted that it was not a problem at all, and that governments were always in debt.

And guess what? Shockingly, he became a deficit hawk pretty much right after Obama's inauguration. And like any good republican, his fury is solely directed at programs which are meant to improve society, while he plays dumb about the primary reasons for America's bleak fiscal outlook: bloated military spending and Bush-era tax cuts. Fanaticism has forced the American right to become stupider than anyone could normally be.