Comments on: HOW DUMB ARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:56:15 +0000

RE:..can’t we agree that it’s a problem that most Americans aren’t even aware of the controversy?”

Last time I checked, “most Americans” still thought the 911 hijackers were Iraqi, and too many believe owning an AM radio keeps them “informed” so color me surprised!
DEE

By: Jim Hlavac

Jim Hlavac — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:42:43 +0000

Well, Mr. Klein might be right that I’m “flagrantly” ignorant of what Obama and the rest are doing — however, it is my Constitutional right to be ignorant of their efforts to tax me more, and regulate my very life, and with what mechanisms they want to devise. Just as it is my Constitutional right to get anyone else to do the job. I particularly want to get someone who does not want to tax me and regulate me. I don’t care how he does it, nor do I really care what anyone does with their own money once they get it back. My knowledge level of what Obama and his crew are proposing is low because the details are based on a theory I know to be wrong. I see no point in wasting time on figuring out how Reid will work behind closed doors to raise taxes. I want to get rid of Reid and the doors themselves so that I don’t have to think about it all, and I might return to my regularly scheduled life. But since Obama and his wife have asked me to get involved I shall do so at their behest — and what I say is NO! No to it all. NO to anything that Klein ever says is good for the country. Like a broken clock, he may well be right twice a day, but the rest of the time he’s just wrong. So, for the Kleins in our midst, thank you for clarifying it — you all are for bigger government and I am for less. The details of your bigness are irrelevant to me. It’s all bad. As is said in many fields “less is more.” And since we want more jobs and more wealth, and less government is the way to get there, Obama’s and Klein’s I, frankly, don’t want to hear about what they want to do. Just shut up, wait out your term, go home.

By: Surabaya Stew

Surabaya Stew — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:40:27 +0000

FYI, the stimulus bill provides $25 extra a week in unemployment benefits. Not a whole lot, but something useful. The best part of the bill is the 9 month (just extended to 15 month) 65% subsidy of COBRA. Between both benefits, ever since I was laid off in April I have saved approximately $2000 on my health insurance and received $750 in additional funds while I have struggled to find a job in my decimated field of Architecture.

Being able to go to the doctor and having a few extra dollars over the past 8 months to stay current with my bills is much appreciated. I anticipate having a new full-time job really soon so that I can get fully back into the productive life, but until that happens, its been good to have had this helping hand in these bad economic times.

So if conservatives and the GOP want to criticize the stimulus, thats ok. I know who’s got my back, and they shall be getting my vote next time around.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:15:41 +0000

For liberals like Klein, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman et al the country would be so much better off if the slack jawed people who live in America would just mind their own business, pay their taxes and let the really smart, Ivy League guys run the country

By: Everett

Everett — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:04:02 +0000

Oops. My last comment was directed to Dee, in comment #13.

By: Everett

Everett — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:05:05 +0000

@ #8

From the same article,

“These are chemical weapons as defined under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and yes … they do constitute weapons of mass destruction,” Army Col. John Chu told the House Armed Services Committee.

None of the U.N. resolutions on Iraq permitted WMDs as long as they were old enough.

And if you still believe that we found no WMDs in Iraq, can’t we agree that it’s a problem that most Americans aren’t even aware of the controversy?

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:31:05 +0000

My response to #8 found above is a textbook example of what often happens when “Klein and his ilk”(as referred to in #1) are not doing the reporting. Truth is becoming subjective and context is everything. Dee

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:19:15 +0000

Re…#8
“The munitions addressed in the report were produced in the 1980s, Maples said. Badly corroded, they could not currently be used as originally intended,” DOD (6/29/2008).
There was ample evidence that the weapons grade materials existed 20 years before their discovery…but they were little more than useless artifacts by the time they were found.
Dee

By: bobnoxious

bobnoxious — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:59:09 +0000

“But let’s get to the thesis of Mr. Klein’s essay; that we Americans are too uninformed - “flagrantly” so - and that Fox News “misinforms.” (Nice that you can make a statement like that and not have to back it up with any concrete example”

When you say “you” above, are you asking for Klein to respond?

And does not Fox misinform ever, so that examples must be provided? Like there is doubt? You really want examples? You don’t. You of all moderates…but since Joe has not responded, you must be right?

It’s your website, you’ve owned up to being too busy. Your worst scattershot essay in ages.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:07:24 +0000

Someone should tell Klein that unemployed people are not getting an extra $60-$80 a month in their paychecks.