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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (130559)	1/31/2013 6:48:49 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Out of curiosity I actually listened to half if it until I could stand it no more. He was talking at such an elementary level, had so much wrong and made such crazy assumptions I finally had to quit. He talks to people like he was talking to a child, because he thinks like a child and his analogies are just terrible. Let me give you two points: 1) He says 23% of the population would need to be on welfare using the insurance analogy. That is pure nonsense. 86% of of the population are at or above normal intelligence i.e. one standard deviation (Stanford Binet standard deviation is 14) below the mean to the top IQ is 86% of the population. And even if you drop another standared deviation below the mean which takes you up to 97% of the population, most of those can do useful things like driving a truck, etc. The average human is quite smart and if you educate them are very smart. 2) He says income distribution has never worked. Nonsense. Go to Denmark or any of those Scandinavian countries that have super high taxes and see how well they live with their high taxes geernous welfare benefits, universal health care and free education. E.g. if you tax the rich and put it into massive education for everyone, everyone prospers. Most people live in poverty not because they are not willling to work to get out of poverty, but becuse they do not know how to get out. Education teaches them how. That is what you right wingers do not understand. The power of education. <<koan, this hour and twenty video made me think of you. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307323-1 If enough of your kind were capable of digesting it, the effects of an evil and dangerous pathology would be lessened considerably.