On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Dana wrote: > > eh. I'd call the "flag" address a PR faux pas -- a gift to people who need > something to be outraged about.
As I said, democrats, including the white house, have committed a bunch of unforced errors recently. the flag@ and email spamming go beyond unforced errors - not because of ill intent, but because of the very serious underlying legal issues involved. > I don't see anything in your other link that > says these emails are from third-party lists? If so that is also not a good > thing, but in the absence of any evidence that this si what happened, I am > remnding myself which party brought us swiftboating, and moving on. Gibbs admitted it in the press conference. Basically third party political organizations fed the White House email lists of people who had signed petitions or other such materials. I guess it's cheaper than using the Air Force to paper the countryside with leaflets. > > People dying for lack of insurance vs. (perhaps) a couple of people getting > unsolicited email. > people don't die for lack of insurance. they die for lack of care. millions of people in this country are uninsured by choice. but somehow that's a crisis, oh no! we can't have those people going without ... insurance? really? the underlying issue, and what has been driving the push for mandatory coverage is that by forcing young, healthy people to buy insurance they don't need and don't use, you can bring a huge new amount of capital into the system, capital that will be used to pay for the programs that are going broke because of over-utilization by the elderly and the infirm. it's a scam, yet another transfer of wealth away from the young and healthy to the elderly and infirm. i am all for reform, we made a very good list of things that could be improved in the current system without forcing people to have coverage. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:302101 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
