Posted on 06/30/2009 6:29:51 PM PDT by LS
A Gallup Poll finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe the Democratic Party's views as being "too liberal," from 39% to 46%. This is the largest percentage saying so since November 1994, after the party's losses in that year's midterm elections.
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Well, well, as Geraldine Ferraro once said, “I don’t believe polls,” and I don’t think the American people, the majority now socialist, really think that of their dear ol’ Democrat Party. Otherwise, they would not keep voting for it ad nauseum.
They don’t mind being slaves if the party in power “cares” about them. Of course, the American people reject the nice things his slaves said about Jefferson Davis.
It's certainly not a perfect theory, but I think they nail most of American history.
Americans have known for years that Dems are leftists, but vote for them anyway.
I haven’t read the book, but empirically you can see that what they propose seems to be true. Generations are certainly colored by the momentous events that occurred in that generation - oppression by England, slavery, Civil War, WWI, Depression , WWII, women entering the workforce, the pill, Vietnam, low-cost consumer goods, rise of mass media, 24 hour cable TV, Internet, texting, mobile video.
I hope there’s a force that’s going to tug the pendulum back toward the center, but I sure don’t see it now, especially because the radical leftists have completely taken over the educational establishment K-12, Academy, and now targeting universal pre-school.
Can you confirm whether it is true that the British NHS won't authorize dialysis for anybody over 55? As somebody who is a dialysis patient and is over 55, this is a matter of some importance to me...
"Free" health care is not only going to cost more money than "expensive" health care, it is going to cost more lives, as well.
Thanks for your response. The "age 55" specification is key. Because it is my understanding that the NHS does not approve dialysis for patients over 55. And it is also my understanding that dialysis patients might account for 2/3 of all Medicare expenditures.
All of which is further complicated by an act of Congress from the seventies which authorized dialysis treatment for any and all who needed it -- irrespective of their ability to pay.
I suspect that people like me are squarely in Miss Nancy's sights...
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