Sounds pretty fishy

Background: Second letter on Obamacare.

Supporters of President Obama’s scheme to expand the government’s control over our health care claim it must be adopted to battle rising costs. Stop and think about that for a moment. Obamacare proponents say the government is going to transform health care by slashing waste and improving efficiency.

This would be the same government responsible for our $11.7 trillion debt which includes $1.2 trillion from this year alone. This same government has allowed Social Security and Medicare to balloon with an unfunded liability over $100 trillion.

Perhaps dealing with trillions of dollars is too much for Obamacare supporters too grasp. So let’s look at smaller examples of wasted dollars and blown budgets.

In 1985, the federal government estimated the Boston “Big Dig” highway project would cost $2.6 billion. The final cost was $14.6 billion. In 1989, the feds estimated Denver International Airport would cost $1.7 billion. Final cost was $4.8 billion. Even Obama offered up the U.S. Postal Service as an example of how poorly the government runs things.

To think the government will slash waste and improve efficiency seems pretty fishy to me.

[Letter to the Editor - Farmington Observer. Published 08/20/2009.]