I can’t believe Harry Reid lied to us, I’ve lost all faith in humanity.
(Beltway Confidential) — On Dec. 19, 2009, days before the U.S. Senate passed its version of national health care legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., claimed its long-term care program known as the CLASS Act was was “fully paid for” for decades.
“(The CLASS Act is) fully paid for, CBO said, in the far future, decades and decades into the future,” Reid insisted. “I didn’t use a penny of that money for the bill that’s before the Senate.”
Reid’s statement looks especially embarassing in the wake of the Obama administration’s acknowledgement that there was “no path forward” for the program, becuase it was fiscally unsustainable.