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To: jazusamo
Sowell: "Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe. No message has been more welcomed by the gullible, in countries around the world, than the promise of something for nothing."

As posted on another thread earlier, we always must keep in mind that words are only the vehicles used to transport ideas, and they can be used to camouflage those ideas (the cargo) as well.

If the object is to move a significant portion of the U. S. economy from private control to public control, and the words are carefully chosen to disguise the idea (the cargo) as being "reforming health care," then enough gullible people who, for one reason or another, believe health care needs "reforming," will be like an audience at an illusionist's show, they will never see the chicanery before them.

In this case, the illusionist's performance is not about health care. It is about moving forward an agenda for bypassing the Constitution which, by the President's own words, has been being attempted for several decades without success--an agenda for accumulating more power in Washington.

The forces behind him chose what they believed to be a person gifted with words to move their ideas forward. Whether or not American citizens allow it is yet to be seen.

20 posted on 09/10/2009 8:30:20 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2

>> we always must keep in mind that words are only the vehicles used to transport ideas,

The acceptance of the agenda by so many Americans is, to me, more disturbing than the agenda itself and the one who evangelizes it.


23 posted on 09/10/2009 8:41:48 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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