DO POLLSTERS AND NEWS REFLECT TRUTH AND IDEAS

Recollection; in 1952, teenagers were concerned because if Eisenhower should be elected everyone would be drafted at 17, and we will go to World War III. The slanted opinions showed Adlai Stevenson should be president.

Daily, we see and hear the opinions and trends published and broadcast. Opinions are discerned from voters’ responses to crafted pollster questions. A selected sample of voters are asked special questions as how the voters perceive office holders are doing in their office. Results are often expressed to make opinions of parties look worse, or more favorable than they are. Pollsters provide predictions or results to the Press. The publication gathers attention to favored approaches and crafted opinions, regardless of misdirects.

Pollsters and media should present ideas to show possible common grounds between parties? Common grounds exist but seldom do news or pollsters present positive ideas or views. The First Amendment provides that Right. We need an Amendment that requires discourse, not opinions that have been slanted. Get away from the fighting against a selected candidate, or party or Office Holder.  Practice true discourse of ideas, rather than polls of Party against Party. Print, and voice, facts not opinions. Being first to report something negative should not make it true, nor make the source honorable or famous.

Who does NJ need to fear?

There was a tax cut passed into law. We in NJ did not see all of the benefit because there was a deduction limit placed on our amount of taxes paid to local and state governments.

Corey Booker, the NJ Senator who wants to be President elect in 2020, claimed the tax cut is driving up the deficit because funds are not flowing to the (Federal) Treasury. We had eight years of that type of thinking by the Guy who told us two percent GDP is the new normal.  The less money going to the US Treasury the more we have to spend. The more in the hands of citizens, spend, and save, the more our economy will grow.

I remember the Richard Nixon-Nikita Khrushchev Kitchen debate in 1959 wherein Nikita swore the Soviet Union would bury the United States. The mathematics of the Khrushchev point was they would have a growth of 6 % per year while the US will only have 2%. We saw that for eight years of Obama. Beware of the Booker.Yet Booker's latest brainstorm is full employment. the question that must be asked is,by whom? Yet Booker's latest brainstorm is full employment. the question that must be asked is,by whom?