Good job Bazza! :cheer:

 

Personally, I've not really used the NHS very much but if I ever need emergency surgery I'd definitely opt for that over Bupa - especially with my family's Bupa insurance going up :P

The survey showed that 24 per cent of Republican respondents agreed with the statement that the president might be the Antichrist, and 38 per cent thought he was "doing many of the things Hitler did."

That's quite a harsh thing to say :o I wonder if the said Republicans could name three...

I'd like to consider myself generally pretty open-minded politically.......... but in saying that, I find it genuinely baffling that any American with an ounce of decency and/or intelligence would consider voting Republican.

I read the following on the internet during my lunch break and had to post this here:

 

Quarter of Republicans think Barack Obama is 'the Antichrist'

 

One in four Republicans in America thinks President Barack Obama "may be the Antichrist," according to a startling new poll.

Daily Telegraph.co.uk

By Nick Allen in Los Angeles

Published: 7:00AM GMT 25 Mar 2010

 

The survey showed that 24 per cent of Republican respondents agreed with the statement that the president might be the Antichrist, and 38 per cent thought he was "doing many of the things Hitler did."

 

According to the poll 67 per cent of Republicans thought President Obama was a socialist, 57 per cent thought that he was secretly a Muslim, 42 per cent believed he was "racist," and 61 per cent thought that he wants to abolish gun ownership.

 

It also found that 51 per cent of Republicans thought that he wants to turn over the US to a single world government, and 22 per cent believed "he wants the terrorists to win."

 

The poll was carried out by Harris Interactive in an online survey of 2,320 adults.

 

Overall, including Democrat respondents, it found that 40 per cent thought President Obama was a socialist, 32 per cent that he was a Muslim, and 25 per cent that he was not born in the United States.

 

The poll was carried out to measure extreme views following the publication of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, a book by John Avlon.

 

Respondents were asked to say whether they believed various extreme statements about President Obama were true or false.

Mr Avlon said: "These new numbers are shocking but not surprising. This poll should be a wake-up call to all Americans about the real costs of using fear and hate to pump up hyper-partisanship."

 

I'm gobsmacked by this poll result. It hardly paints the people of America in a great light does it?

 

I'd like to say that I'm surprised by this, but I'm really, really not.. This tallies pretty much with what my American friends who live in London say about a sizeable proportion of their countryfolk.......

Such complete nonsense, unfortunately there are people in my family that might fit into that percentage...

 

 

I think quite a bit of the uneasiness about this bill is that people don't know enough about the bill. I can admit that I don't know a lot about it personally either. All I constantly hear about is the controversy surrounding the whole thing.

 

To me, it seems that most people are just worried about being taxed more. I definitely live in a more conservative area of the country and pretty much everyone around here seems to be against the bill. I think it's that people don't want to be taxed more to pay for other people's health care and people seeing how much this bill will cost the country overall when we're in so much debt as is.

 

Personally, I don't really know what to think of the healthcare bill. It will be great that many many more Americans will be able to have healthcare. But there are so many other elements to the bill. :/

To me, it seems that most people are just worried about being taxed more.

 

And they're not remotely concerned about countless billions of their taxes funding the illegal invasion/occupation of Iraq..?? To me, that just sums up the total fukked-up nature of Conservative Americans, they'll have no problems having their taxes used for killing people and invading countries, but God, actually HELP their fellow Americans???? Why, that's just positively Communist isn't it???? :rolleyes:

I am glad the bill passed.

Most people don't even know what is in the bill but they want Obama to fail. It's utterly pathetic.

The health care system in the US is a mess and filled with corruption.

 

A lot of people where I live think Obama is a muslim and about a third of Republicans even think he is the anti-christ.

 

Not all Americans are this stupid however.

Why would him being a Muslim make him 'the anti christ' though :unsure:.

 

It's pretty backwards to think that some people in supposedly the most developed country in the world thinks anybody who doesn't like guns is the 'Muslim Hitler Antichrist' :S.

 

 

I am glad the bill passed.

Most people don't even know what is in the bill but they want Obama to fail. It's utterly pathetic.

The health care system in the US is a mess and filled with corruption.

 

A lot of people where I live think Obama is a muslim and about a third of Republicans even think he is the anti-christ.

 

Not all Americans are this stupid however.

 

This.

 

And the reason that a lot of people dislike this idea is because people that work in the health field don't like it. Their pay is going to go down... but that is the only UNDERSTANDABLE point of view to be against it that is valid.

My friend in SC is against this.

 

She was against the Tax Rises and used the argument that Public funded health care systems have bad track records of inefficiency, long waits and general crapiness. Her relative in Japan was informed she needed a mammogram to see if a lump was cancerous, and she had to wait 9months for said mammogram :mellow:

You guys in the US have needed a step in this direction. Trust me, after your national life expectancy starts to rise to similar levels of other countries with a national health service, the public will surely vote towards basic health care being covered in taxes ;)

My friend in SC is against this.

 

She was against the Tax Rises and used the argument that Public funded health care systems have bad track records of inefficiency, long waits and general crapiness. Her relative in Japan was informed she needed a mammogram to see if a lump was cancerous, and she had to wait 9months for said mammogram :mellow:

 

Well, has your friend actually got a better suggestion that will help the 35 million Americans who are not even gonna GET treatment in 9 days, 9 months or 9 years if their fukkin' HMO has a problem with it.....? -_-