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Poll: Should Your Tax Dollars Buy Health Care or European Banks’ Toxic Assets?

By: Jane Hamsher Tuesday June 16, 2009 4:00 am

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20 Responses to “Poll: Should Your Tax Dollars Buy Health Care or European Banks’ Toxic Assets?”

JamesJoyce June 16th, 2009 at 5:13 am
1

Protect corporations while Americans die! Jefferson is screaming in his grave!

See Jane c-span now!

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mack June 16th, 2009 at 6:34 am
2

I had to think long and hard about this one

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selise June 16th, 2009 at 6:39 am
3

NO! to bailouts for the banksters

NO! to bailouts for the health insurance companies leeches

YES! to single payer universal healthcare hr 676

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allan June 16th, 2009 at 6:59 am
4

Nice NPR puff piece this morning on the IMF bailout.
Surprisingly, the phrase “European banks” was not uttered.

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WarOnWarOff June 16th, 2009 at 7:00 am
5

Those dollars will soon be as worthless as toxic assets.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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alank June 16th, 2009 at 7:00 am
6

That’s a Hobson’s Choice. Health care is not a commodity one should have to buy and anything toxic, such as the AMA, is by definition undesirable?

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ApacheTrout June 16th, 2009 at 7:03 am
7
In response to alank @ 6

My thinking exactly. Not exactly an unbiased poll with objective wording, eh?

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WarOnWarOff June 16th, 2009 at 7:06 am
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In response to allan @ 4

Dean Baker has a nice blog post up on that…

http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs…..global_sav

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Scarecrow June 16th, 2009 at 7:10 am
9

How about a poll on whether to bail out central banks or help states and local communities avoid layoffs and cuts in vital services?

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ApacheTrout June 16th, 2009 at 7:13 am
10
In response to ApacheTrout @ 7

regardless of the polling techniques, this is an excellent example of simple and effective framing.

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Petrocelli June 16th, 2009 at 7:16 am
11

Jane, it would appear that either Geithner or Summers voted in your poll … a single vote for bailout of Euro Banks.

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selise June 16th, 2009 at 7:16 am
12

a plea to the powers that be at fdl:

please, i beg you, put single player universal health care on the table at fdl (and on the poll).

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stratocruiser June 16th, 2009 at 7:16 am
13

The current woting on this is 241 for public plan and one for European banks. My question is, who’s the one?

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Petrocelli June 16th, 2009 at 7:18 am
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In response to selise @ 3

Selise … Bill Clinton seems to agree with you – from DKos

Clinton: “Rationally, single payer is the best system”, he continued, “our system is the worst, most expensive and least effective.”

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selise June 16th, 2009 at 7:35 am
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In response to Petrocelli @ 14

well there you go!

it’s not often that i’ve agreed with bill clinton on policy.

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alank June 16th, 2009 at 7:51 am
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In response to selise @ 12

It’s not an FDL poll, afaik.

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selise June 16th, 2009 at 7:54 am
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In response to alank @ 16

i think it is:

http://answers.polldaddy.com/p…..ew=results

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reader June 16th, 2009 at 9:14 am
18

Hmmmmm…. let me see. That’s such a tuffy. Hmmmm. Hmmmm. Gee. :-))

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wmd1961 June 16th, 2009 at 9:40 am
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In response to ApacheTrout @ 7

duh.

About as informative as:
Which would you prefer:

Watching your child be waterboarded

Watching your child eat ice cream

Gee I wonder how most people would vote on that one?

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JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin June 16th, 2009 at 10:02 am
20

Who are the eleven people who voted for bailing out European banks over health care?

Silly people…probably just trying to be contrarian…

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