The ads from the Koch Brothers have already began. “CBO SAYS 2 MILLION JOBS LOST TO OBAMACARE!”
First of all it is not jobs lost but reduction in hours which the CBO translated to jobs and apologized for the next day. Secondly it is only about the people leaving jobs they only hold to get healthcare, those jobs will be filled by the unemployed who need the jobs. Third, those people leaving those jobs are doing so to sign up for Obamacare, making it ever more viable. And lastly we are talking about volunteering and choosing to leave a job. In fact there are no job losses at all.
The problem of course is the truth doesn’t matter, it’s how fast you can saturate the media with a lie to keep it going. The GOP has Fox News, talk radio and Citizen’s United to keep whatever crap they come up going and going. Explanations, even as short as this cartoon or my three sentences above do not matter. Americans like sound bites not explanations.
But give the GOP credit, the only way they can hold on to power is through gerrymandering, Citizen’s United, suppressing the minority vote, their two headed propaganda machine of Fox News and Talk Radio and outright lies.