Same old BS! "We don't know what it will cost, whether it will work, but we know it must be made law NOW!"
Posted on 06/26/2009 6:43:19 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Polls. I am not a big believer in them. One of the biggest problems with polls are the questions. Poll questions are often practically useless in relaying any real, usable facts. Let's take the first one asked by Charlie Gibson at the start of the Obama healthcare infomercial on ABC for example. He asked if everyone agreed with Obama that healthcare needed fixing. Naturally everyone said yes. But what does that question really mean?
Think about it. What does "needs fixing" mean? What sort of "change" are we talking about? It means many things to many different people. Some may want only minor changes, most on the left want a socialist system to entirely replace the one we have. Two great extremes that find common agreement that "change" is needed. But the question is nearly meaningless when considering what degree of change is on the table. It's all a matter of individual perspective.
This is reflected by the polls in a major way because, while everyone seems to agree that "change" is needed, once it comes down to brass tacks, the largest number of Americans shy from pulling the trigger. And that trigger is paying for it through taxes. Oh, sure, everyone says "change" is good in these polls, but when it comes to "ME" paying for it, well, maybe we don't need that much change after all, respondents say...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Call your congressman and demand to know if he is going to give up his current coverage and enter the health-care system being prepared for us proles. If he won’t answer, you know whose side he’s on, and it’s not yours.
Same old BS! "We don't know what it will cost, whether it will work, but we know it must be made law NOW!"
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