Remember how we were told how important it was to pass the $787 billion "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act"?  Obama's chief economic advisor, Christina Romer, put out a nice study showing how many jobs would be created or saved with this "stimulus" bill. 

On page five of the report they had a nice graph projecting the unemployment rate with and without the stimulus bill being enacted.  That was in January of 2009, just 10 months ago.  Let's see how the best and brightest economic minds in Washington did vs. the reality of what has actually happened. 

With the Recovery Plan, the unemployment rate was projected to be 7.8% by now.  Without the Recovery Plan it was projected to be 8.8%.  The reality is that it's 10.2%.  The actual rate is 43% higher than they projected!!

I'll let you decide whether it's a matter of incompetence or a matter of deceit in order to get their agenda passed.

With this sort of track record, can we trust them at all with the projected cost of the proposed healthcare bill?