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A speaker I heard said that over a million slaves died and were tossed into the ocean during transport from Africa to America. That seemed like a pretty big number. I looked it up on the internet and found out that a slave ship held about three hundred slaves. In order for a million to have been tossed into the ocean it would be the equivilant of 3,333 ships full of slaves. Since the trade laste about three hundred years, that would be thirty ships full a year. That sounds fishy to me. I imagine the speaker wanted to shock us, and came up with a number that would.
I think way too much of this goes on. I hear on the news that 52% ofr the people are for something, or against, something, or care about something. But, how did they get that number? I have never been asked by a pollster how I feel about anything. When they call, I just hang up because I don't have time to talk to them. I'm always bysy working on my blog. It turns out that they call people on the pnone and aske about five or six hundred what they think and then say that reflects the opinion of the people in this country.
I'm specifically talking about the polls that are showing up on the news about health care. 52% of people, so they say, are against the public option. But, can you trust the numbers. MY sister, who works in retail, does not have a ground line telephone. She can only afford one, so she has a cell. The pollsters only call ground lines. I wonder if the numbers would be different if they included poor people who do not have a ground line. I think so.
She also cannot affort do buy insurance for herself. She is a single lady with no family who has to go the emergency room when she needs to see a doctor. That is such a giant inconvenience that she seldom goes to the doctor. As a result, she did not realizee she was having a serioux problem with her eyes until she could not qualify to get her license to drive reniewed. So, she ended up having to have expensive eye surgery and pay for it with a credit card. Now she has a huge payment, high interest rates, not of which she can afford.
We need some safety net for people like my sister so they can get the health care they need without goiing into debt to get it. I am not smart enoough to know if the government option is the best way to get her insurance, but something needs to happen to help people like her.
So it goes.
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Posted by jimvint on 2009-09-07 12:06:42 | Rating: | Views: 15
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