Dumb as a Box of Hollow Marbles: Idiot America is a scary place

[marmar]

:dunce:



New poll finds that 39 percent of Americans want government to ‘stay out of Medicare.’

As ThinkProgress has noted before, conservatives have frequently obscured the fact that Medicare is a government-run single-payer program. Constituents appearing at health care town halls have even demanded that their members of Congress keep their “government hands off of Medicare.” Now, a new Public Policy Polling poll finds that millions of Americans do not realize that the federal government runs Medicare:

One poll question indicative of how difficult it is to gain public understanding on a complicated issue asked if respondents thought the government should ‘stay out of Medicare,’ something inherently impossible. 39% said yes.

The poll also shows that an additional 15% of respondents were “not sure” if the government should be involved in Medicare. Only 46% of respondents disagreed with the proposition that the government should stay out of the government-run program.

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Update: The poll also finds that only 62 percent of respondents believe that President Obama was born in America. Of the 38 percent who either don't believe or are unsure, some think he was born in Indonesia, Kenya, the Philippines, or France. Six percent of the total poll respondents also don't think Hawaii is a U.S. state.



http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/19/americans-poll-out-medicare/

[TrogL]

1. Fascists like their population stupid

One of their first acts is to destroy the school system, replacing it with rote-based learning (eg. home schooling).

[DCKit]

4. The Madrassa system is the TaliBaptist model.

And "Jesus Camp" is where they're training their suicide bombers.

[d_r]

2. I've heard

that 50% of Americans have a below average IQ.

[Ron Green]

3. Yeah, if you think about someone you know with an IQ of 100,

then imagine that lower half, it's unsettling.

[YOY]

6. Actually half of the world population is near or below 100. Half is above.

That's why it's 100=average.

[kimmerspixelated]

5. Like Beebees in a Boxcar,

the lil' bits of brains they do have, as they shakes thar head!

[corpseratemedia]

7. Why should anyone listen to The (hTe) Stupid regarding important policy decisions?

Thank Goddess for Barney Frank - you have to treat them like toddlers. Hte Respekt is something they aren't capable of comprehending.