Once more the CBO came out with what should have been good news for Americans. Once more the right wing of America threw up all over it, then proceeded to lie their asses off. Once again just like your little brother when you were younger, you just can’t take them anywhere or they will embarrass you no end. And yet some of your friends think he is really cute and do not care that he lies and cheats.

The CBO last week came out with a report stating that the ACA gives people more control over their own lives. Thus American businesses may no longer have that magical control over their workers lives that they so loved. Up until January 1st, 2014 for most people in the United States the only way they could get health care was through some form of group insurance through their jobs. Since having health insurance is literally one of the basics of life, this forced many folks into jobs. It also often forced folks to stay in jobs they hated because not having health insurance was a worse fate than staying in a job you hated.

This is of course a situation that employers really liked and could easily manipulate. The control of an employees health options and often those of their families gave employers a great situation to exploit. They could do such things as change working hours, cut hours, cut pay, cut benefits and many other things while holding workers hostage with health care benefits.

This is the essence of why the Republicans are so adamantly opposed to any health care reform that would give the individual some control of their own health. Health care is more than a bargaining chip for employers, it is a hostage holder. In most cases it is the Republican more specifically the Tea Party that represents employers. The Tea Party will do whatever to take down the ACA, including obstruction, lying and misrepresenting. This of course includes elected officials and the employers themselves.

So we get a piece of information from the CBO that is stated in a bit of a confusing manner. Trying to say that there will be less hours worked in a few years due to the ACA our corporate owned news media immediately misinterpreted the CBO statement. What the CBO meant and explained many times was that employees, now in control of their own health care, could choose voluntarily to cut back or leave employment. This does not fit the narrative that corporations and the Tea Party wants to project so they immediately put out their misinterpretation that jobs would be lost.

To admit the truth would be at the same time to admit that individuals could now control their own health care. Maybe employees could hop to another employer without worrying about losing health care, or just quit, or maybe just maybe start their own business. This last scenario would in the long run actually increase employment.

Holding employees hostage with health care has been a top tactic since the so-called Reagan revolution. Reagan did not lead a revolution. Instead he lead a retrenchment that put the rich more firmly in control than ever. Part of the strategy was to strangle information to the public via America’s corporate media. That has worked well, but the internet has provided another source for information. Still the right depends on their ability to control the framing of any issue using their hold on the corporate media.

Thus on the issue of health care, the right has put up their greatest fight ever. They have been able to stall and alter what I still believe will be the eventual answer: single-payer universal health care. They have delayed it so far and are once more throwing the bankroll at stopping it. But I believe their efforts will not only be futile but also fatal. Americans have gotten a whiff of what freedom to control their own health can be like. When they find out, they realize someone lied to them. One thing Americans don’t like is being lied to. So Americans will be anxious to know who lied to them, why they were lied to and what can they as controllers of the government really do.

That will be the revolution that is coming. Tea Partiers are on the wrong side of the dam trying to plug the leaks that are popping out all over. You and me? We are on the other side ready to drench them with truth. And when they get drenched they will realize they were never anything but stooges for those people up on the hill.