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<hide> <let name=data index=Title>Obamacare myth the fifth</let> <let name=data index=User>Woozle</let> <let name=data index=TopicsUser></let> <let name=data index=TopicsGlobal>\Obamacare\propaganda\Obamacare myths\government</let> <let name=data index=TextAbove>"Obamacare was forced on America; Americans didn't want it." Apparently many people believe that this reform -- for which many of us campaigned, blogged, or postered -- was forced on us by a government indifferent to our pleas for mercy. Or maybe a small cabal of us forced it on the rest of the country through our insidious back-channel connections to Barack Obama's subconscious.</let> <let name=data index=TextBelow>I'm sorry, I just have to get a little sarcastic here. Here at Hypertwin Manor, we had a hand-made banner in our front yard reading "SUPPORT HEALTHCARE REFORM". I had hung it from a tree with fishing line, and the slightest bit of wind tended to bring it down, so I often found myself picking it off the ground and rehanging it shortly before dawn as we waited for Josh's bus.

I can only conclude that I was somehow brainwashed into thinking that affordable medical care would be good for me -- or perhaps I'm a member of the ruling Liberal Elite, and didn't even know it. (This must be what I get for not going to the meetings.)

But seriously.

Brave US citizen attempting to prevent Obama's secret Afro-Muslim CareTank Squad from brutally imposing unwanted healthcare (on their way back from confiscating everyone's guns) -- where o where was Chuck Norris when we needed him??

"Of ten polls conducted just prior to the passage of the bill, three found about equal opposition and support, five found a plurality expressing opposition, and two found a majority expressing opposition."1 In other words, support was roughly 50-50, with possibly a slight edge in favor.

And further:

"In March 2010 a CNN poll of 1,030 adult Americans probed opinions about the bill and its relative liberalness. It found that 43% of respondents opposed the bill for being too liberal, and 39% supported the bill and 13% opposed it on the grounds that it was not liberal enough.2 The identical question when asked in December 2010 found that 37% opposed the bill for being too liberal, 43% supporting the bill and 13% opposing it on the grounds of being not liberal enough.3"

In other words, 52% of Americans in March 2010 and 56% of Americans in December 2010 wanted at least as much reform as offered by Obamacare.

Repealing it -- at least without installing something as good or better in its place -- would therefore be going against the wishes of more than half of America.

The people who originated the claim that America didn't want this reform are, plain and simple, liars.

Footnotes

1 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1003844 via Wikipedia

2 http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/03/22/rel5a.pdf and http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/22/cnn-poll-americans-dont-like-health-care-bill/?fbid=1AOWVNbJBup via Wikipedia -- but note how CNN lumps the "too much" votes in with the "not enough" votes to conclude that "59 percent of those surveyed opposed the bill"

3 http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/12/27/rel17h.pdf via Wikipedia</let>

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ShowTopic(iTopic,iMax)

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GetBlogEntryBrief()

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GetBlogEntryBriefChrisFormat()

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GetBlogEntryFull()

<func GetBlogEntryFull> INPUT: 

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Categories –</let> 

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ShowRecentBlogEntries(max,funcEntry)

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ShowRecentBlogEntriesFull(max)

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MakeBlogCatgs()

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</func>

ShowBlogPostPage()

<func ShowBlogPostPage> 

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In Brief </let> 

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-- date: 

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<get name=wtTitle /> <get name=data index=Text /><get name=wtTextBrief /><get name=wtTextFull />

Posted by <get name=wtUser /> at <get name=PostDate />. Topics: <get name=wtCatUser /> <get name=wtCatGlob /></echo>

</func>

ShowBlogPostPage_v2()

<func ShowBlogPostPage_v2> 

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==</let> 

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In Brief </let> 

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The Rest </let> 

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   <let name=wtTextBrief null />
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 <call MakeBlogCatgs />

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 <let name=wtCatGlob append></let>

-- date: 

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 </if><else>
   <let name=wtUser>unknown</let>
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 <echo>

<get name=wtTitle /> <get name=data index=Text /><get name=wtTextBrief /><get name=wtTextFull />

Specs

Timestamp: <get name=PostDate />
Author: <get name=wtUser />
User topics: <get name=wtCatUser />
Global topics: <get name=wtCatGlob />
</echo>

</func>

ShowBlogPostPage_v1()

<func ShowBlogPostPage_v1> 

 <let name=PostDate copy=data[TimeStamp] len=10 />
 <let name=wtDate>[[</let>
 <let name=wtDate append copy=PostDate />
 <let name=wtDate append>]] ([[:category:</let>
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 <let name=wtTitle>

==</let> 

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 <if flag=$data[TextAbove]>
   <let name=wtTextBrief>

In Brief

</let> 

   <let name=wtTextFull>

Full Story

</let> 

   <let name=wtTextBrief append copy=data[TextAbove] />
 </if><else>
   <let name=wtTextBrief null />
 </else>
 <let name=wtTextFull append copy=data[TextBelow] />

 <call MakeBlogCatgs />

General categories for blog posts: -- the fact that it's a post: 

 <let name=wtCatGlob append></let>

-- date: 

 <let name=wtCatGlob append>[[category:</let>
 <let name=wtCatGlob append copy=PostDate len=10 /> -- just the date for the category
 <let name=wtCatGlob append>|]]</let>
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 <let name=wtCatGlob append>]]</let>

 <let name=user copy=data[User] />
 <if flag=$user>
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   <let name=wtUser append copy=user />
   <let name=wtUser append>|</let>
   <let name=wtUser append copy=user />
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 </if><else>
   <let name=wtUser>unknown</let>
 </else>
 <echo>

Specs

Timestamp: <get name=PostDate />
Author: <get name=wtUser />
User topics: <get name=wtCatUser />
Global topics: <get name=wtCatGlob />

<get name=wtTitle /> <get name=data index=Text /><get name=wtTextBrief /><get name=wtTextFull /></echo> </func><call ShowBlogPostPage></if>

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