This morning I joined, as usual, a group of old men and women (Democrats, independents and one Republican) to discuss the news for two hours. We spent a good part of that time on yesterday's report from the Congressional Budget Office, a respectable nonpartisan source. Every one of us was under the impression that the report had predicted that the Affordable Care Act would cost the nation about two million jobs over a ten year period. We worried about that.
I get home and find out that the report had actually predicted that the ACA would increase the number of jobs over ten years. It also predicted that about two million people, once they had health care, would decide to retire early or move on to other work. The jobs would not be lost. They would be opened up for new hires.
Why did we get the whole thing backwards? Because certain Republican leaders stood up in front of cameras yesterday and lied their heads off. They told us millions of jobs would be lost. They think we are idiots. We aren't (by a narrow margin).
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