We hear a lot of ordinary Americans - those unsophisticated "low information voters" that many on the right are fond of criticizing - talking about getting "free" stuff from Obama; health care, phones, food, housing, and such. It's idiotic, of course. Only brain dead numbskulls who vote Democratic actually believe that stuff the government gives them is "free" in any meaningful sense of the word. Just because a benefit might be "free" to them, doesn't mean that somebody, somewhere, didn't have to pay taxes to purchase the benefit. Such idiocy might be excused from uneducated Blutos ("Have a beer. Don't cost nuthin'"). But what about reading such nonsense from a pair of New York Times writers who ostensibly should know better? Reed Abelson and Katie Thomas wrote a piece on subsidized insurance policies for the New York Times with the following headline: "Under Health Care Act, Millions Eligible for Free Policies." Millions of people could qualify for federal subsidies that will...(Read Full Post)