Comments on: Are Americans Stupid?

By: A Little Self-Responsibility, Please | The Moderate Voice

A Little Self-Responsibility, Please | The Moderate Voice — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:16:34 +0000

[...] 2009 | View commentsComments I wouldn’t go as far as comic/satirist Bill Maher saying the American public is stupid. Rather, a large percentage is gullible as we have seen time and again on the town hall video clips [...]

By: Angry MBA

Angry MBA — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:13:29 +0000

nor am I one of Maher's stupid Americans. You really don't want me to answer that, now do you? If you don't see the pull towards socialism... I'm not sure whether you actually write this stuff, or if you have some sort of Limbaugh Random Cliche Generator (TM) that auto-generates it for you, but regardless of the source, it's not particularly good. You guys are like dumb parrots that just spew rhetoric that you don't really understand. Maher is looking sharper by the day.

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:56:49 +0000

Angry, I assure you I am neither pulling your leg, nor am I one of Maher's stupid Americans. However, we are starting to wonder about YOU. If you don't see the pull towards socialism, you are blind, deaf and dumb. Either that, or you are "angry" because we haven't quite gotten there YET. Hold on to your wallet...we'll be there soon if stupid Americans like you get their way.

By: Angry MBA

Angry MBA — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:55:39 +0000

if this Bill passes, China, Mother Russia and Communism will look like freedom to us!

OK, Rachel, now I know that you're just pulling my leg.

You have got to be a member of Bill Maher's support staff, trying to help to prove his point. (We all did get the memo that Joe McCarthy is still dead, didn't we?)

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:29:19 +0000

Taken as a whole, this healthcare thing is a horrible symptom of a Federal government gone out of control... in their hubris they want to intrude so deeply into every facet of your private life that if this Bill passes, China, Mother Russia and Communism will look like freedom to us!
And while YOU pay for this mess, illegal aliens will get the services free without anyone intruding into THEIR lives. Now that sounds fair, doesn't it :-(

You leftwingers who thought Bush was overstepping, should be yelling the loudest! Obama's fascist dictatorship makes Bush look like a piker.

By: Angry MBA

Angry MBA — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:52:43 +0000

Good links, Rachel. I usually rely on online vitamin shops to get my medical data, too.

Now that I've given it some thought, I have no idea what Maher was talking about. We're obviously a nation of geniuses, only feigning stupidity. The only problem is that we're so good at pretending that we stay in character longer than we should. Much longer.

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:09:17 +0000

Rasmussen poll: When it comes to health care decisions, 51% of the nation’s voters fear the federal government more than private insurance companies. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 41% hold the opposite view.

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:48:16 +0000

Massive Brain Drugging of Children Now Underway-

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:46:51 +0000

Hypocrisy- Dems talking about the "bad" health insurance companies and big pharma when Obama is in bed with pharmaceutical companies

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:50:53 +0000

I was just listening to a local talk show and a Brit called in. We have all heard the horror stories of the health care system in England, but what I had never heard before is that the government employs 1.5 million bureaucrats to run their health care program. Unbelievable.

AFter the goverment takes over a few more industries, the only jobs left in this country will be government jobs.

By: Angry MBA

Angry MBA — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:46:36 +0000

Death is bad, Rachel. Bigger isn't always better, that is unless you're hoping that the infants don't survive.

Yee-haw for us: We're 29th! http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus07.pdf#025

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:38:36 +0000

Don't you have that back-asswards? You most certainly do.

By: Angry MBA

Angry MBA — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:00:36 +0000

In the UK, the infant mortality rate for babies born to mothers of Caribbean heritage was 9.8 deaths per 1,000 births. And our rate for blacks -- sorry, perhaps we should call them coloreds to denote their propensity to drag the numbers of the white folks -- was 13.6, as I pointed out to you previously. Maybe it's different out there in the hinterlands where you are, but where I went to school, a rate of 13.6 would be considerably worse than 9.8. As I noted, our worst is worse than their worst. So my point still stands, you're still wrong, and Maher's still correct. There really is plenty o' stupid being produced here in these United States of ours. The question now isn't whether we have rather vocal idiots -- we've got our share posting here, so they obviously exist. Rather, the issue is one of why they are so brazen in their dumbness. It's one thing to be dumb, it's quite another to actually take pride in it. Once again, my sincere thanks for all of your efforts to prove my points about some Americans being selectively critical about others and chestthumpingly hyperdefensive about their own flaws. If you were trying to disprove my Not Invented Here thesis, you failed miserably, and I appreciate that.

By: gVOR08

gVOR08 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:34:24 +0000

The American electorate ARE frighteningly ignorant. Democrats, like Maher, bemoan that fact. Republicans depend on it.

By: G.A.Phillips

G.A.Phillips — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:19:26 +0000

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833