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A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy?
An anonymous reader with a snippet from Politico: "A finding in a study on the relationship between science literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea party members know more science than non-tea partiers. Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on his blog this week that he analyzed the responses of more than 2,000 American adults recruited for another study and found that, on average, people who leaned liberal were more science literate than those who leaned conservative. However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn't, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said. Kahan wrote that not only did the findings surprise him, they embarrassed him. 'I've got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I'd be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension,' Kahan wrote. 'But then again, I don't know a single person who identifies with the tea party,' he continued.'" More at the Independent Journal Review.
Because once you start cutting revenue you have to start cutting programs. And once you start cutting programs you run into the problem that SOMEONE thinks that that particular is not "excessive".
Don't link to generalities. Show the specifics. What to cut and by how much.
This is you spouting generalities. "Taxes" is a generality. "Someone" is a generality.
Here's a specific:
How about if we cut the free ObamaPhone program by 100%? If you want a mobile phone, buy one. If you need a charity-provided mobile phone, go get one from a charity. Don't hire your government to tax your neighbors' paychecks or your neighbors' phone bills so you can free-ride.
"Excessive taxes" include every cent used to pay for the ObamaPhone program. If this program were eliminated, taxes would be tiny bit less "excessive" because there would be less obvious waste and abuse.
(Watch now. Someone will argue that we should keep this program because someone else is getting other freebies: "the big corporate/defense/whoever people get to steal, why shouldn't the little guy get his share of the loot too?". )
Just having a scientific leadership is enough to lift the group as a whole above average. Ayn Rand readers giving marching orders to truck drivers. Sounds about right.
Exactly. The Tea Party is full of well-financed astroturf organizations fooling the less informed into supporting the best interests of their billionaire backers. No shit quite a few of them are very well educated -- you think Koch's kids (do they have kids?) would be high school dropouts?
I suspect the results may depend heavily on where you find the respondents. Run the survey in a wealthier area and you'll get Tea Party backers, who will of course be quite well educated. Run it in a poorer area and you'll get Tea Party followers, who probably aren't.
No, I'm an open homophobe, you stupid faggot. Is that better?