Benjamin Franklin:

"When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic."

JOHN ADAMS, President of the US 1797-1801

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Congress "Healthcare Reform" debates is a "Death Panel" for Americans of all ages

Let us take a look for instance to the pair of the well known threats:





The current US HealthCare system constantly rises the Survival Rates:



Meanwhile the totally different situation exists in the countries, where government run the national Healthcare system. Below please compare Age-Specific Prostate Cancer Mortality Rates - Trend Comparison - "US vs. Canada", 1969-1999:

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Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians:

- Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the US,
- Prostate cancer in Canada is 184 percent higher.

Source: http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html

The same results of comparison can be seen for the "US vs. Europe":

For men (all sites combined), 47.3% of Europeans survived 5 years, compared to 66.3% of Americans. For women, the contrast was 55.8% vs. 62.9%.

The male survival difference was much greater than the female primarily because of the very large difference in survival rates from prostate cancer (see the above data).

... innovations in diagnosis and treatment of prostate and breast cancer were associated with faster declines in mortality in the US than in OECD (Europe) countries.

Source: http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=psc_working_papers

© 2006 Gallup, Inc.

Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.

An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as [government] economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful.

The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain.

The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain.


Source: http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html

See also how existing US Healthcare system is working for American children:





President Obama has pledged to get a "Healthcare reform" bill passed this year ... So, please, take a look to the above stats again and make your math - how many Americans of all age will die during next 5 years, if "Obamacare" reform will pass this year?


Some more Stats about Healthcare ...

Source: http://www.gallup.com/video/121940/No-Groundswell-Support-Healthcare-Reform.aspx

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PS. The below dialogue is a fragment from WSJ discussion:

Leslie Herrick: This illustrates a fear I have regarding government run health care.

If you cannot rely on the government to apply the law towards justice, what recourse do you have when government itself makes life-and-death decisions about your health care or access to it?

And what part will your political affiliations play in the distribution of health care resources?
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Krishnan Chittur: If Insurance companies do something egregious, you can call an attorney and see what your options are.

If (no, when) the Government does something egregious, there is nothing (absolutely nothing) you can do. They make the rules - they are players and referees all at the same time.

"Government" is made up of citizens, yes - but they are a different breed of humans - normal humans who get transformed into something unrecognizable when they grab that public power.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments

How to Read and Understand the Polls:

The Gallup Polls above graph is related to Obama Job Approval by "national adults, aged 18 and older" (including illegal immigrants and other people, who do not have rights to vote).

So, it'll be interesting to compare the above Gallup data with Rasmussen Report Polls, that counts "likely voters" only:

The polls data of August 18, 2009:
- Gallup Poll Obama Job Approval / Disappoval: 52 - 42 = +10%
- Rasmussen Obama Job Approval / Disappoval: 49 -50 = - 1%

Democrats Radically Changed Their Mind in 2008/2009

concerning the "Big Government" threat to country:





Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/117739/Big-Gov-Viewed-Greater-Threat-Big-Business.aspx





Source: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/52_worry_government_will_do_too_much_to_fix_economy

"... the Best Health Care System the World Has Ever Known"

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that President Barack Obama's proposed health care plan is the "first step in destroying the best health care system the world has ever known".

Below please find some more stats in regards to the existing US Health Care System:



© 2006 Gallup, Inc.





© 2006 Gallup, Inc.

Rasmussen Poll Questions about the possible cost of Obama's "Healthcare Reform" can be considered as an IQ-test:

Data source: "National Survey of Likely Voters Conducted August 9-10, 2009 By Rasmussen Reports"

Obama Approval Numbers by the Demographic of Likely Voters: Gender, Age, Race, Family Status, Employment.

According to the Rasmussen Poll above data:

The following groups of Likely Voters Approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president:

- Age of 29 or younger, Women, Black, Unmarried, Do not have children at Home, Do not work for a Private Company.
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The following groups of Likely Voters Disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president:

- Age of 30 or older, Men, White, Married, Have Children at Home, Entrepreneur, Work for a Private Company.

Republican and Democratic Bases Differ in Education

One of the most popular myth is ... -- "the more educated voters are, the more probability exist they will vote for progressive liberal candidate". The myth -- by definition -- can't be broken by any facts of the real life, but we will try to talk about these "inconvenient facts" any way:

National Survey of Likely Voters Conducted March 30-April 5, 2009

Rasmussen Reports	Education
March 30 - April 5, 2009	Not sure	Attend HS	HS Grad	Some College	College Grad	Grad School
Republican Voters	17%	23%	37%	42%	45%	34%
Democratic Voters	51%	63%	43%	38%	32%	45%

Data source: By Rasmussen Reports
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/premium_content/political_tracking_crosstabs/april_2009/crosstabs_full_week_march_30_april_5_2009
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CNN Exit Poll President Election November 2008



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Gallup Poll: July 2008









Editor in Chief Gallup Poll Frank Newport comment: The overall pattern of the vote by education this summer is roughly consistent with that of the last election in 2004, although the margins within each group vary across elections. In 2004, Gallup's final analysis of the vote showed John Kerry winning among voters with high school educations or less, and winning among those with postgraduate education -- similar to Obama's edge in these groups today [2008]. Bush won among those with college degrees (but no postgraduate education) in 2004, as does McCain today (but by a slimmer margin).

Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/109156/Obama-Retains-Strength-Among-Highly-Educated.aspx

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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES / NATIONAL / CNN EXIT POLL 2006

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President Election November 2004

Data Source: The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ.

Fried, Joseph, Democrats and Republicans — Rhetoric and Reality (New York: Algora Publishing, 2008), 74–5.

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So, generally speaking, the higher level of education voters achieved, the more probability they will vote for a Republican candidate .

There is one - and one only - exclusion from this basic rule, and this is the "postgrade" group of voters

The article below clarifies the main reason for this exclusion:

College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds

By Howard Kurtz, March 29, 2005; Page C01. Washington Post

College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.

By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published this week. The imbalance is almost as striking in partisan terms, with 50 percent of the faculty members surveyed identifying themselves as Democrats and 11 percent as Republicans.The disparity is even more pronounced at the most elite schools, where, according to the study, 87 percent of faculty are liberal and 13 percent are conservative.

What's most striking is how few conservatives there are in any field," said Robert Lichter, a professor at George Mason University and a co-author of the study. "There was no field we studied in which there were more conservatives than liberals or more Republicans than Democrats. It's a very homogenous environment, not just in the places you'd expect to be dominated by liberals."

Religious services take a back seat for many faculty members, with 51 percent saying they rarely or never attend church or synagogue and 31 percent calling themselves regular churchgoers. On the gender front, 72 percent of the full-time faculty are male and 28 percent female.

The findings, by Lichter and fellow political science professors Stanley Rothman of Smith College and Neil Nevitte of the University of Toronto, are based on a survey of 1,643 full-time faculty at 183 four-year schools. The researchers relied on 1999 data from the North American Academic Study Survey, the most recent comprehensive data available.

The study appears in the March issue of the Forum, an online political science journal. It was funded by the Randolph Foundation, a right-leaning group that has given grants to such conservative organizations as the Independent Women's Forum and Americans for Tax Reform.

Rothman sees the findings as evidence of "possible discrimination" against conservatives in hiring and promotion. Even after factoring in levels of achievement, as measured by published work and organization memberships, "the most likely conclusion" is that "being conservative counts against you," he said. "It doesn't surprise me, because I've observed it happening." The study, however, describes this finding as "preliminary" ...

Rothman, Lichter and Nevitte find a leftward shift on campus over the past two decades. In the last major survey of college faculty, by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1984, 39 percent identified themselves as liberal.

In contrast with the finding that nearly three-quarters of college faculty are liberal, a Harris Poll of the general public last year found that 33 percent describe themselves as conservative and 18 percent as liberal.

The liberal label that a majority of the faculty members attached to themselves is reflected on a variety of issues. The professors and instructors surveyed are, strongly or somewhat, in favor of abortion rights (84 percent); believe homosexuality is acceptable (67 percent); and want more environmental protection "even if it raises prices or costs jobs" (88 percent). What's more, the study found, 65 percent want the government to ensure full employment, a stance to the left of the Democratic Party...

The researchers say that liberals, men and non-regular churchgoers are more likely to be teaching at top schools, while conservatives, women and more religious faculty are more likely to be relegated to lower-tier colleges and universities.

Top-tier schools, roughly a third of the total, are defined as highly ranked liberal arts colleges and research universities that grant PhDs.

The most liberal faculties are those devoted to the humanities (81 percent) and social sciences (75 percent), according to the study. But liberals outnumbered conservatives even among engineering faculty (51 percent to 19 percent) and business faculty (49 percent to 39 percent).

The most left-leaning departments are English literature, philosophy, political science and religious studies, where at least 80 percent of the faculty say they are liberal and no more than 5 percent call themselves conservative, the study says.

"In general," says Lichter, who also heads the nonprofit Center for Media and Public Affairs, "even broad-minded people gravitate toward other people like themselves. That's why you need diversity, not just of race and gender but also, maybe especially, of ideas and perspective."

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During the 2008 President Election Campaign mainstream media especially often quoted the below Gallup's graphs in order to convince American people that "Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a much greater appeal to highly educated Americans than to those with less education":

Nobody took attention to the following "very small and not too important detail" -- all 3 above graphs were related to the Democratic primary race... In other words, the above graphs were about statistics related to internal competition between the Democratic candidates only.

As so, all these graphs had nothing to do with "Obama Vs. MakCain" race: