Ask the people that are on it, if they are in favor
of privatization and you will getting a big big no
Fox news is a propanganda right wing cable news
station and the info that you receive from that
network is inflated,and favors the right wing view and
is very suspect.
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> >Think the bear market has killed Social Security
> privatization? Fox
> >News reports on a recent poll:
> >
> >>Sixty-eight percent of respondents favored private
> accounts, a
> >>margin of well more than two-to-one. Respondents
> aged 30-49 rang in
> >>favor of private accounts at 76 percent, ages
> 18-29 at 82 percent.
> >>Democrats favored them 56 to 40 percent.
> Independents at 67-31
> >>percent. White, black, Hispanic, union,
> conservative, moderate,
> >>even self-described liberals -- all favored
> private accounts over
> >>the current system by a margin of at least 16
> percent.
> >>There was no demographic group in which less than
> 54 percent of
> >>respondents favored private accounts. The closest
> gap was among
> >>seniors -- aged 65 and up -- and even they favored
> private accounts
> >>by a margin of 55-40.
> >
> >The cultists at the Elliott Wave Theorist
> ><http://www.elliottwave.com> point out: "The poll
> was conducted this
> >past July 8-12, four days when the Dow Industrials
> dropped some 700
> >points."
> >
> >The bull lives on in many minds.
> >
> >Doug
>
> The bull lives mainly in the minds of the rich! The
> poll in question
> was "commissioned by the Cato Institute and
> conducted by Zogby
> International," with a sample that over-represents
> the well off,
> better educated, born-again, and/or Southerners.
>
> ***** Methodology
> This survey of 1,205 likely voters nationwide was
> conducted from 5
> p.m. on Thursday, July 29, through 2:30 p.m. on
> Monday, August 2,
> 1999. All calls were made from Zogby International
> headquarters in
> Utica, N.Y. The margin of error is +/- 3.0 percent.
>
> Sample Characteristics
>
> Characteristic Frequency Percent
> Total 1205 100.0
>
> East 298 24.7
> South 369 30.6
> Central/Great Lakes 352 29.2
> West 186 15.4
> <snip>
> Less than high school 76 6.3
> H.S. education 306 25.4
> Some college 365 30.3
> College graduate+ 458 38.0
> <snip>
> Roman Catholic 299 25.0
> Protestant 527 44.1
> Jewish 15 1.3
> Other (religion) 356 29.7
> Born-again 257 49.0
> Not born-again 268 51.0
> <snip>
> Less than $15,000 122 11.1
> $15,000-24,999 163 14.7
> $25,000-34,999 165 14.9
> $35,000-49,000 209 18.9
> $50,000-74,999 222 20.1
> $75,000 or more 224 20.3
>
> <http://www.socialsecurity.org/zogby/fullreport.pdf>
> *****
>
> The report doesn't say so clearly, but it appears
> (based on the
> wording in the report) that the dollar figures refer
> to individual
> earnings, not household incomes.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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