*This* is truly disturbing
John Fund, Wall Street Journal, yesterday:
Blue Dogs who are dragged into Speaker Pelosi’s office should be aware of just how she is selling the health care bill. Yesterday, she told supporters it represented “real change,” because it meant “a cap on your [health care] costs, but no cap on your benefit.” Assuming Speaker Pelosi was quoted accurately, and assuming she wasn't "misspeaking", she is utterly bereft of economics. She is asserting the equivalent of a perpetual motion machine in physics.
For liberals, desires trump logic. She wants it, so it must be attainable; for it would be inconceivably frustrating if desires were impossible to satisfy.
The real test is what they do when reality forces them to choose. That's when we find out whether they're merely utopian, or vicious as well.
Posted by: pj | July 25, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Pelosi is an alumna of the School for the Perpetually Perplexed.
Posted by: TheBigHenry | July 25, 2009 at 10:19 AM
What if she stated that privatizing (or vouchers) for K-12 education would cost less (cap on costs) but help all kids (no cap on benefits)?
I think Pelosi is a wacko, too, but health care just might be able to help more people and cost less - imagine what tort reform could do to health care.
Posted by: IB a Math Teacher | July 25, 2009 at 11:06 AM
IB a Math Teacher,
Imagine if tort reform were actually on the table. Or vouchers. Or competition across state lines. Or transparency in results produced by different hospitals.
Could you imagine such a world? A world free of Democratic special interests who are willing to let Americans die to keep their jobs secure, that world is. A world of true miracles.
Posted by: Brock | July 25, 2009 at 03:13 PM
Interesting. So, Pelosi is saying that my health care cost per year would be capped at say $1,000, but my benefits such as going to the emergency room any time I had a headache or sniffle would be unlimited. Health care would become like an all you can eat buffet. I (or any American or illegal alien) would be able to order up any medical service or procedure since there is no cap on my benefits, yet my costs would be capped at fixed dollar amount. Why does this sound too good to be true? Maybe, because it can't possibly be true.
Posted by: Tom | July 25, 2009 at 07:50 PM
$1,000 per year sounds to good to be true too. My health care is more like $1,000 per month!
Posted by: Tom | July 25, 2009 at 07:54 PM
Perhaps Pelosi's last botox injunction was directly into her frontal lobe. Or maybe she's always been this stupid.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie | July 25, 2009 at 07:59 PM
Remember, Pelosi is the one who said that natural gas is not a fossil fuel...
Posted by: david foster | July 26, 2009 at 09:05 AM
It's like repealing the Law of Demand! ;-)
Posted by: Speedmaster | July 27, 2009 at 09:01 PM