Years ago when I worked as an analyst at the Pentagon, we had a saying, "gigo," for garbage in garbage out. I can't believe that in the current health-care debate I haven't heard gigo in relation to the CBO projections.
The Democrats shovel to the CBO a bunch of faulty assumptions (e.g., $500 billion can be taken from Medicare with no loss to Medicare recipients), i.e., garbage inputs, and the CBO cranks out a lot of garbage results, deduced from the lies originally input. Then the Democrats quote the garbage outputs like they are findings, direct from God.
It is shocking that Republicans have not dealt with this fraudulent shell game appropriately. Gigo is the simple, direct, and proper retort. But, if the Republicans wanted to go all the way and blow the Democrats' trickery right out of the water, they could give one of the big, prestigious accounting firms a set of realistic assumptions (i.e., inputs) concerning Obama care and then quote the accounting firm's findings (i.e., outputs) in response to Democrats?
C. Sterling Portwood, Ph.D.
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