Yes, Obama lied about Obamacare — here’s why

Obama had to lie to the American people about Obamacare because otherwise there would be no Obamacare.

The tactics of the Obama team were, from the outset, to put off as long as possible the moment when Americans realized that the whole thing had been a lie.

The facts of Obamacare math require that almost every American, sooner or later, pay their “fair share” of the costs associated with forcing the uninsured to buy health insurance.

After all, that’s what politicians do, unless the age-old philosophy of Abraham Lincoln has no meaning: that you can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time (hello liberals!), but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

In his eulogy for Obamacare, the New York Times’s Ross Douthat digs a little deeper. Every government program promises benefits to some group of supporters; but usually the politicians manage to hide the costs from the rest of the people or tell them that only the “rich” will pay.

What’s different now? Douthat calls it the “status quo bias,” and gives Jonathan Rauch in “Government’s End” the credit.

The government has given away so much free stuff that it becomes very hard to devise new giveaway schemes without digging into the goodies of the existing “clients and beneficiaries and interest groups.”

From a political perspective, both the complexity of Obamacare’s interlocking mandates, subsidies and regulations and the disingenuous promises that accompanied its passage were arguably design features rather than bugs — intended buy off, appease, to burden-spread and cost-conceal and generally reassure everyone long enough to get the system up and running.

Let’s look at the numbers, federal spending since 1920, courtesy of usgovernmentspending.com:

The red parts are defense spending. The blue band is “all federal spending except defense.” You can see the problem.

Back in the 1920s, non-defense federal spending was 2-3 percent of GDP. The New Deal increased government spending up over 7 percent of GDP in the 1930s. With the Great Society starting in the mid-1960s, our liberal friends doubled non-defense spending up to 15 percent of GDP.  But ever since, non-defense spending has stuck like a limpet around 15 percent of GDP.  Note: the chart shows federal spending.  For total spending, including federal, state, and local, see here.  It makes the same point.

Obama’s “fundamental transformation” along with his lies and deceptions are needed to get around the fact that there is no room for more government. In trying to force one more stick of furniture into a crowded room Obama and his bribed apologists have concocted a “policy so complex and jerry-built” that it becomes almost impossible to make it work. The economy and the American people can’t take it any more.

Think of every government program as a neutron bomb that nukes voluntary and peaceful cooperation and replaces it with a radioactive desert of force: taxes and regulations and handouts. Eventually, after a century of liberal carpet bombing, the whole economy becomes radioactive and nothing can grow.

Just like the Obama recovery of the last five years.

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