Re: Samuelson: "It's More Than Social Security"

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:01:34 GMT

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 05:21:03 +0000 (UTC), "Kent Paul Dolan"
<xanthian@well.com> wrote:

>"royls" <royls@telus.net> wrote:
>
>> The elderly are not, repeat, _not_ a majority, not
>> even of voters. Not even remotely close to a
>> majority.
>
>As I very recently said, you frequently prove
>yourself a moron with minimial help from me.

ROTFL!! Still industriously making an ass of yourself, I see...

>The elderly don't _have_ to be a majority,

Thank you for admitting that you and Samuelson were both flat wrong.

>they merely
>have to vote like one:
>
> "Voter turnout increased with age, from a low of
> 25% of those aged 18-24 to a high of 66% of
> those aged 65-74. Voter registration numbers
> showed similar trends of registration rates
> increasing with age."
>
>http://www.prcdc.org/summaries/voting/voting.html

Which does not in any way validate your claim, as it does not give the
total numbers, only fractions of each age group. Nor does it indicate
the the elderly voted more one way than another (indeed, the elderly
are known to vote more conservatively -- i.e., typically for _lower_
entitlements -- than younger people).

>Which is what severely skews government policy to
>the needs of the elderly: politicians know they need
>the support of the most consistent group of voters,
>to stand a chance of (re-)election.

Wrong. The elderly don't skew government policy in their favor
because they are a majority, or even a majority of voters. They skew
government policy in their favor because they have most of the
_money_, and they are willing to use it for political ends. Any
political fundraiser can tell you the elderly are far more likely to
donate than younger people.

>Which is why Samuelson was precisely correct, and
>you, as ever, so far off base you didn't even
>qualify as "wrong".

<yawn> Sorry to have proven you wrong so often, Kent. I... I just
can't seem to help it.

>This is stuff everyone who passed eighth grade
>civics class already knows, Roy, but somehow, in
>your agenda-driven fact selection/invention, you
>missed out on such incredibly basic knowledge as
>"who votes".

I know your understanding of electoral politics never surpassed the
8th grade level, Kent, but others reading this are a little more
sophisticated. The elderly simply do not have (or cast) enough votes
to control public policy. But they have enough money.

>Now, once more: don't try to think in public, Roy,
>you only injure yourself.

<yawn> Sorry to have once again so cruelly exposed your errors,
Kent...

-- Roy L

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