Cowboy Confessional

Do liberals have a genetic deficiency in mathematics?

I ask in all due seriousness (or at least as much seriousness as I can summon) given their poor record in predicting the cost of government programs.  I give the libs ample windage in as much as government is chronically ineffective, inefficient, and inane, and predicting any part of it outside of uncontrolled growth is like shooting flies from afield.

Several years back liberals in Canada ramrodded a national firearm registration system, claiming that it would cost a mere pence.  Several years later the scheme produced an expense report some 1,646% times the original projected cost.  Anyone can be a little over budget, but there is a might gap between a cost overrun and a cost runaway.

Universal health care is the next sham in the left’s agenda, and the first unmasking of truth has taken place in (where else) Massachusetts, home of Ted Kennedy and other benefactors to the distillery industry. 

In raw, out-of-pocket dollars, the plan is now priced at double what was pitched to voters.  This does not include rate increases for hospitals, physicians, and managed care organizations which when passed along to consumers will double the cost again.  All added together, the MassBackward Universal Insurance Sham will cost about 530% more than the politicians originally predicted.

Truth be told (a rarity in politics I assure you) the liberals are not that bad at basic mathematics.  They are much better at marketing, and know that voters routinely perform rough cost/benefit analysis on issues.  The good people of Massachusetts felt a little socialism was acceptable as long as the price was kept low.  Now that the true price has been confessed, recalling the pesky partisans who perpetrated this perversion is in order.

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