(Thanks for giving me the day off to be miserable with a bad cold. I'd rather be blogging.)
Given the advanced technology of the Internet, it is fairly easy to obtain results on a litany of polling questions these days as compared to twenty years ago. It has become common practice for government leaders to ask for a quick poll on some subject before they vote, for example. But the results of the poll are dependent upon the demographics of the audience surveyed and the manner in which the questions are asked. In the past, government leaders have often said that they don’t govern by what the polls reflect, but by what is best for the country. The latest trend is to govern by poll results.
COMMENTS:
This has led to deliberate manipulation of polls. Obama has perfected the art of suggesting
that polls reflect whatever it is he is pushing. The inference is that the majority of
Americans, based upon a particular poll, favors a certain project or proposed
law. This is not necessarily true. The same poll directed at a different
audience or with questions worded differently can produce entirely different
results. To be fair, everybody is doing
it, regardless of political affiliation.
Your job is to separate the wheat from the chaff.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. As far as ObamaCare goes, it stinks. It seems to me that our last best hope was to
defund it. What now? (Marguerite ~ Daly City, CA)
A. The fact that the websites are basically inoperative is
cosmetic. What is going on behind the
scenes is total pandemonium. I tend to
agree with those who say it will implode on its own. The planning, the implementation and the
final product are all faulty. It needs
to be redone from scratch, or scrapped altogether for something better planned
and thought out.
Q. I know you have said many times that our educational
system is being used to indoctrinate our young people into socialism. I feel
that schools should be 100% educational in the literal sense and leave the
upbringing to the parents. The
government seems to feel otherwise. What
are your thoughts? (Slick ~ Las Vegas,
NV)
A. Not all parents are equipped to raise children. Over the years, the educational system has
assumed more and more of the parenting role.
To me, this is fundamentally wrong; we should be teaching those parents
how to effectively raise children and providing them support networks to
accomplish that task. The government has
no business in assuming that role. A Maryland school recently surveyed its
sophomore class with some rather obnoxious questions, I think: (1) What is your religion; (2) What is your
sexual orientation; (3) What is your parent’s political affiliation; (4) How
many siblings do you have; (5) What is your household income; (6) What is the
highest level of education either of your parents have. There were many other questions pertaining to
matters the school has no business sticking its nose into. What
kind of intrusive behavior is your school exhibiting toward your children?
Q. I heard there is no limit now on the debt ceiling?” (Brandon
~ Sioux City, SD)
A. SURPRISE: That is basically correct. The bill passed by the Senate and the House
provides that any bill now owing or incurred up until the middle of February
will be honored, regardless of amount. Does
that bother you?
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do
have a tendency to disregard it.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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