"People are pissed," [Grover] Norquist said. "They've been lied to."The second commenter notes:
I was at a HC rally in Chicago yesterday. One lady in the opposition crowd has a sign asking if government run health care was so great why don't members of congress sign-up for it.I really need to start archiving these "Keep your big-government hands off my medicare" quotes; they are hilarious... until you realize what they mean about the mentality of our electorate and elected officials.
On the plus side, basically three-quarters of those interviewed in a new CNN poll recognize that our current system is untenable. I assume that the remainder is composed of the "23 percenters," who can't imagine that God would allow shrub to err, and who would happily drink sewage- and cyanide-laced Kool Aid if Rush Limpdick told them it would defeat socialism.
74% - They would help me and my family (30%) or other families in the country (44%).
20% - They won't help anyone.
Do you think it is or is not necessary to make major structural changes in the nation's health care system in order to make sure that all Americans have health care insurance?
77% - necessary
21% - not necessary
Do you think it is or is not necessary to make major structural changes in the nation's health care system in order to reduce health care costs?
74% - necessary
23% - not necessary
Followup: "Art Laffer (why is he, of all people, on my TV?) asks what it will be like when the government runs Medicare and Medicaid." From Krugman's blog yesterday. (If you don't recognize the name Art Laffer, and why Krugman protests his presence on TV, the Laffer Curve provided the economic basis for Reaganomics)
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Given the fact that I can apply online for my annual plate stickers, I don't have a problem with the DMV, nor can I recall having a piece of mail becoming lost either to or from my house.
Only anecdotal? Sure, but unlike Mr. Laffer, I didn't pull them out of my ass.
RE: Laffer - it really is amazing that these lunatics keep popping up after being so wrong about so much.
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