Hey shock, wanna bet $1000 on those figures? I would bet anyone who wants some of this action that the "savings" quoted will never materialize.

I'll gladly pay anyone wantin in on this $1000 if by 2030 the federal govt. realizes even 1.0 trillion of the 1.2 trillion they claim to be able to show in realized savings to the federal budget.

The fly in the ointment is the figures fed to the CBO to make their predictions on. An old rule of accounting is at play here "Garbage in, garbage out.".

The real deal is when has the govt EVER brought in even a single project they started "on budget"? Truth is, when have they ever done so without the real cost actually having come out as multiples of their predicted costs?

Here's a really good example of the shitty management skills they use. A very famous whore house in Nevada had gotten behind on their taxes and wound up with the fed takin it over. In less than a year it was bankrupt and outta business. So ask yourself this question .... if the government couldn't even turn a profit sellin pussy and booze, what are the chances they'll manage a whole fuckin countrys' healthcare program without raising even MORE taxes AND shavin services too?

Their track record for managing any program has always ended in failure and bankruptcy. Social Security, though people have been payin into it for over 70 yrs is already payin out more $$ than it takes in.

Amtrak is a steady money pit that hasn't made a real profit in years and one of Obamas BIG recovery plans is to spend hundreds of billions more (and make the states provide matching funds they don't have) to build high speed rail systems.

The Post Office, though they receive congressional perks in rates NO OTHER carrier gets can't even keep its head above water and will soon be cutting saturday delivery AND laying off THOUSANDS of full time employees to try and stay open.

We've been dumping BILLIONS into unemployment for months now just so there's not open rioting in the streets.

Welfare programs like housing assistance, food stamps and health care like Medicaid and Medicare are busted, especially since Obama just jerked $500,000,000,000.00 from Medicares coffers so he could use it to make his Obamacare BS look better.

With all this is it really a wonder that anyone would have a reasonable doubt that not only will the "savings' claimed never be realized, but nothin even close to that will ever be seen?

The problem is the govt doesn't have to work within the same constraints other operations do. Not only do they never have to stay solvent and turn a profit like other organizations do, worse yet, when they run outta money they either just print more or raise taxes to cover their shortfalls. Sadly, when there's no reason or incentive to force them to live within their means, guess what, they NEVER WILL!!!

I'm willin to even shave off $200,000,000,000.00 from their projected savings to hedge the bet in any takers favor, so who's willin to take my bet