Fact-Checkers Not Necessarily Neutral- says Marvin Olasky

So you think you can trust the fact checkers, the ones that the news outlets inevitably consult to fact check our politicians statements? The ones that are supposedly neutral and non-partisan. According to Townhall's Marvin Olasky, that 'aint necessarily so.

The problem is that PolitiFact.com, The Fact Checker, and a host of others that hand out “Four Pinocchios” or “Pants on Fire” awards have very long noses and very burnt buttocks. They are partisans posing as neutralists.

For example, on this work/welfare question, here’s the big fact the fact-checkers missed: The Obama administration will let liberal state welfare officials water down work requirements as long as they game the system to show a pretend movement from welfare to work.

Fact-checkers concluded that Obama was not weakening the work requirement because states to gain flexibility would have to increase the number of people going from welfare to work by 20 percent. But states can do that by keeping better records of job attainment and by enticing more people to go onto welfare, which will boost the number of those leaving it. And if those two approaches don’t work, never fear: States do not need to meet the 20 percent standard, but merely “demonstrate clear progress toward the goal.”

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Looks like we need fact checkers for the fact checkers.

Healthcare Costs To Increase $478 Billion With Obamacare

The Democrats have been sold a bill of goods regarding Obamacare, since the rest of us saw right through it. 

According to Guy Benson Townhall:

Let's recall three of the oft-repeated pledges upon which Obamacare was sold: (1) Lower premiums. False. (2) "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." False. (3) The law will bend the cost curve down, reforming the "unsustainable" status quo. For the second time since passage, false:

A new government actuarial study finds that as a result of the law, health care spending will be $478 billion higher over the next decade than it would have otherwise been had no law been passed. Furthermore, as a result of the health care law, about 50 cents of every dollar of health care spending in the United States will be financed by government by 2021, according to the report from the actuary’s office at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, unveiled today

I can vouch for the lower premium falsehood, since my already exorbitant COBRA premiums were raised about $400.00 a year.

Read the rest of his article here.