Monday night I raced home from work so hubby and I could attend one of Bart Gordon's Town Hall Meetings. The meeting took place in a theatre on the local college campus. Very appropriate, I thought, to have a political meeting in a theatre. But I digress.
We stood in line for quite a while, waiting to get in. There were 900 seats available and all but 75 were given out on a first come, first served basis. While we waited in line, I ended up talking to a gentleman in line in front of me. He was pro-Obamacare and I am most definitely anti-Obamacare. During the course of the discussion, he tried to tell me that HR3200 would not eliminate private health insurance. I quoted the portion of the bill that would do just that.
Mr. Pro assured me that was not in the bill. I asked him if he had read it. The conversation proceeded something like this:
Mr. Pro: "I guarantee you it's not in there."
Me: "Have you read it?"
Mr. Pro: "I guarantee you it's not in there."
Me: "Have you read it?"
Mr. Pro: "I've studied the relevant portions."
Me: "Have you read it?"
Mr. Pro: "I've studied it."
Me: "So you haven't read it."
Mr. Pro: "Well no. But I guarantee you -"We stood in line for quite a while, waiting to get in. There were 900 seats available and all but 75 were given out on a first come, first served basis. While we waited in line, I ended up talking to a gentleman in line in front of me. He was pro-Obamacare and I am most definitely anti-Obamacare. During the course of the discussion, he tried to tell me that HR3200 would not eliminate private health insurance. I quoted the portion of the bill that would do just that.
Mr. Pro assured me that was not in the bill. I asked him if he had read it. The conversation proceeded something like this:
Mr. Pro: "I guarantee you it's not in there."
Me: "Have you read it?"
Mr. Pro: "I guarantee you it's not in there."
Me: "Have you read it?"
Mr. Pro: "I've studied the relevant portions."
Me: "Have you read it?"
Mr. Pro: "I've studied it."
Me: "So you haven't read it."
Me: "If you haven't read it, then you can't guarantee me a darned thing, now can you?"
I then pointed out to Mr. Pro that part of my job entails reading contracts. Not glamorous work, but useful. I asked what he did. Are you ready? Yes, Mr. Pro was a poli-sci professor. I nearly fell over laughing. I finally managed something along the lines of "Well, THAT explains alot." Offended, Mr. Pro asks what I mean. Me: "Because you have no idea what life in the real world is like." Mr. Pro tries to convince me that academia is the real world. I just managed not to hoot directly into his face but I did tell him he was sadly mistaken and that academia had NO relationship with real life.
I share this conversation with you because I think it's quite interesting that Mr. Pro was so ready to guarantee me something wasn't in a bill that he hadn't read. And these are the people who want to bring us Obamacare. I rest my case.
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