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Offline Carl

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We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« on: January 26, 2010, 10:22:27 AM »
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MyUncle (485 posts)      Mon Jan-25-10 11:09 PM
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We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
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Check this out. Link to whole article - http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1472/public-priorities-pres...

The stuff that fans our flames and recs are way down the list. I need a job, but I need a planet as well. Global Warming is dead last. Health Insurance and Financial Regulation are 1/2 way down the list of the top top concern percentages.

Yet our party is all about Health Insurance, Financial Regulation and Global Warming. Perhaps that is where the some of the disconnect is?

I for one need a job. I am unemployed 2x in the past year and I need a job!

 

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nosmokes (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-25-10 11:13 PM
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2. why is terrorism a priority for 80% ?
 I don't get it. You're more likely to be struck by lightning than get involved in a terror attack in the states.

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aquart  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jan-25-10 11:17 PM
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7. That's what I was going to ask.
 Of all the wastes of money and time, terrorism is such a fake worry.

Ask the folks on that Christmas day flight if they agree.

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MyUncle (485 posts)      Mon Jan-25-10 11:18 PM
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10. My point exactly, "I DON'T GET IT"
 I don't either.

If this is accurate, the stuff we get hot about (other than the economy) is way, way down the ladder in terms of people's hierarchy of needs.

Look where the military is. Abortion does not even make the list.

If you don't get and I don't get it, perhaps we and our party ARE disconnected?
 

You are thinking on your own too much for the DUmp.

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daleanime  (572 posts)        Mon Jan-25-10 11:15 PM
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4. Let's see....
 Medicare at 63, deficit reduction is 60, health care totals 57, and helping the poor captures 53.


And they all get better with single payer health care(not prefect just better). Can you name a single piece of legislation that could do more?

Ridding the country of DUmmies but doubt that will happen.

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Atman  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-25-10 11:17 PM
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8. I simply don't buy this poll. Is Pew right-wing?
 Terrorism is #3? Social Security is #4? Does anyone have any way to actually verify these findings? IOW, could Pew simply make up any numbers it wants which reflect its own agenda? Just saying, this list looks totally bogus, and I know I'm not just "projecting" my own wants and wishes. No way in bloody hell that Americans are more concerned with "deficit reduction" or "terrorism" than they are with their own health care. But of course, I could be an outlier.

 

Or just an idiot.

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Atman  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-25-10 11:53 PM
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21. That's my point, with deference to HughMoran and MyUncle
 The numbers don't make sense. Hey, I talk to lots of people, too. I work in politics. I just don't hear anything like this poll is suggesting. When has "deficit reduction" ever ranked so much higher above issues which actually impact people's daily lives? There is just something not right about this poll.

 

They didn`t poll you or other idiots seems to be the problem.
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2010, 10:43:45 AM »
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daleanime  (572 posts)        Mon Jan-25-10 11:15 PM
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4. Let's see....
 Medicare at 63, deficit reduction is 60, health care totals 57, and helping the poor captures 53.


And they all get better with single payer health care(not prefect just better). Can you name a single piece of legislation that could do more?

Articles of Impeachment against the 43rd President of the United States.

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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2010, 10:44:46 AM »
There they go again, when confronted with something that disturbs their worldview, putting up walls of denial.  Here's a typical liberal moonbat post:

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EmeraldCityGrl  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jan-26-10 12:20 AM
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29. Terrorism over education...
 If education were a priority, we wouldn't have any of the other problems.

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 MyUncle (485 posts)      Tue Jan-26-10 12:29 AM
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30. I appreciate your optimism, but ...
 you can't educate our way out of many of these challenges.

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EmeraldCityGrl  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jan-26-10 01:26 AM
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32. It's hardly optimism, it anything is a sad  
 acknowledgment of what should be and never will. An educated populace
would never tolerate the wars, would never be vulnerable to an economic draft.
Without the wars the economic problems would not exist.

I don't know as I ever heard of an "economic draft."  What is that?  We've seen her before, she's extra cheese stupid.  
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2010, 10:44:56 AM »
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nosmokes (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-25-10 11:13 PM
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2. why is terrorism a priority for 80% ?
 I don't get it. You're more likely to be struck by lightning than get involved in a terror attack in the states.

Maybe, just maybe those people were considering the effect of another major attack on the US as a whole and not just if they might be killed by it.  Think about 9-11, it crippled the economy for some time, but only 3000 or so lost their lives.
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2010, 10:50:15 AM »
Pedro is projecting his own wants and wishes.  It's what primitives do.  They falsely believe their concerns are what should be the concerns of all Americans because, you know, they're the self-appointed intelligensia and know better than the people themselves what should and shouldn't be a priority.

Poor Pedro.

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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2010, 10:50:44 AM »
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Atman  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jan-25-10 11:17 PM
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8. I simply don't buy this poll. Is Pew right-wing?

*cough* ... *choke* ... Pew is about as right-wing as Che.
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2010, 11:55:40 AM »
What moonbat said about the Reagan landslide, "How did he win? I don't know anyone that voted for him."?

Shows that even if you have money you can be as DUmb as a post and have no trouble pointing it out to everyone.
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2010, 12:09:03 PM »
Thundley, they also were puzzled by the vast fly-over country being concerned with terrorism, since they themselves do not work in highrises on the coasts.  Never mind these people might be concerned for their fellow countrymen, or have larger imaginations to conceive of bio or nuclear attacks. 

As for Pedro, he really should know better about Pew if he's so "politically savvy."  Credibility is the very lifeblood of polling companies.  They don't just pull numbers out of their hineys. 
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2010, 04:55:47 PM »
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MyUncle (485 posts)      Mon Jan-25-10 11:09 PM
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We at DU are out of touch...

No shit, Sherlock.
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2010, 05:14:49 PM »
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MyUncle (485 posts)      Mon Jan-25-10 11:09 PM
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We at DU are out of touch...

Actually, I think most DUers ARE touched...in the head.
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2010, 08:59:22 PM »
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We at DU are out of touch

And every post in response to your OP your fellow DUmmies confirm that fact.
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2010, 09:23:25 PM »
Did the DU OP get tombstoned for daring to speak truth to lunacy?
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2010, 01:31:28 AM »
Quote from: Oceander on January 26, 2010, 09:23:25 PM
Did the DU OP get tombstoned for daring to speak truth to lunacy?

More likely he'd will/was tombstoned for daring to speak truth to stupid....

And you can't fix stupid....
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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2010, 10:54:16 AM »
Yup, terrorism is still a #3 worry to REAL Americans. Suck it assholes.
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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2010, 11:00:14 AM »
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daleanime  (572 posts)        Mon Jan-25-10 11:15 PM
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4. Let's see....
Can you name a single piece of legislation that could do more?
Articles of Impeachment against the 43rd President of the United States.

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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2010, 11:57:15 AM »
Quote from: Karin on January 26, 2010, 10:44:46 AM
There they go again, when confronted with something that disturbs their worldview, putting up walls of denial.  Here's a typical liberal moonbat post:

I don't know as I ever heard of an "economic draft."  What is that?  We've seen her before, she's extra cheese stupid. 

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Re: We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.
« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2010, 12:02:53 PM »
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MyUncle (485 posts)      Mon Jan-25-10 11:09 PM
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We at DU are out of touch, according to Pew.

No shit. I can tell that just by reading you DUmbasses.
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