The Big Lie About Medicare Cuts

The Union Leader reports on the continual big lie in politics:

The President would increase Medicare spending by about 66 percent over the next five years. Under the proposed 2007 budget, Medicare would grow by 7.7 percent a year. Where's the cut? There isn't one.

Under current law, Medicare would grow by 8.1 percent a year. Bush is proposing to trim its rate of growth by four tenths of one percent a year over five years. Kathy Sullivan calls that a huge cut. Imagine if Bush proposed actually cutting Medicare. No wonder nothing gets done in Washington.

Could you imagine Wal-Mart or GE advertising a product and telling an outright lie without lawsuits? Wouldn't the Justice Department or the FTC be all over them? But,look how dishonest speaking about Medicare is:a 7.7% increase is a cut! When words lose all of their meaning the extinction of freedom can't be all that far away.