My instructer calls herself independent, but the talking points still sneak in...

She is a smart woman...that's what makes this exasperating. We were discussing HCR and all that goes with it. The student loan reform she must've picked up right off of Faux. She said that it would raise our interest rates. I asked how does it do that when banks are taken out of the equation. She couldn't answer that. The biggie, which did piss me off, is her assertion that HCR is bad because we'll pay for people too lazy to buy their own health care insurance and that want the government to do everything for them. I replied that we already pay for lazy people. We also pay for vets, old people, poor people, unemployed people and so on. This is one way of dealing with that problem. Then she said the government had no business getting into health care. I replied that the private industry had every chance to regulate themselves and they didn't. While this isn't ideal regulation, it is a start and has some teeth. She's lamented in our classroom at how her insurance company had forced her college-age daughter off their policy.

I don't mind her not supporting this particular bill (law now). There are some valid concerns and I share those, too. I've always respected her because she is intelligent and knows her stuff. I'm taking medical coding and billing, BTW. This legislation will have a huge impact on our future careers.

I was very surprised at how many talking points seeped into the discussion. She voted for Nader, too.

It was a good discussion, but I'm a bit disappointed that she was throwing out the standard repuke talking points.

and we don't own a tv station!

You may need to revise your estimate of her intelligence.

everything is the fault of Ralph Nader.
:bounce:

I know a lot of smart(read educated), people who don't have a lick of common sense.

Good at books but when it comes to real life issues they are dumber than a bag of hammers.

Don

now. At least the ones that realize how bad the previous 8 years of criminals and perverts we had running things really were. I wouldn't want to admit having voted for Bush twice either. At least some percentage of them realize on some level how bad they screwed up. That won't stop them from doing it again though.

They all claimed to be Independents.

My own Republican parents even stopped voting in the primaries so they didn't have to admit their party affiliation.

Don

she voted Nixon in 68, but McCarthy in 72 (for what good it did). She's been a solid Dem ever since.

because the Gov't was subsidizing the private lenders. No reason for the Gov't to take that part over and all of a sudden charge a new higher rate. Complete crap.

are actually ashamed to admit they are repugs.
Sort of in the closet, so to speak.