People agree with Phil Gramm?

[BlueStater]

Time Magazine poll: As Phil Gramm suggests, is America a "nation of whiners"?

61% Yes

39% No

What in the blue hell?

http://www.time.com/time/

[ellacott]

1. Yet people were upset about the bitter comment

[BklynChick]

2. that's a pretty general question! did they ask specifically about whining about the economy. If I

was asked generally if the America was filled with whiners, I might say yes too. Yes, I'm a Dr. Feel Hater.

[BlueStater]

4. I think people who visit a news magazine website should be better informed about this n/t

[blogslut]

6. No.

The question is exactly as the OP posted it:

As Phil Gramm suggests, is America a "nation of whiners"?

Embellished with an image of a guy doing a crybaby imitation.

Slanty Slanty.

[BklynChick]

7. I just took a peek there. I would bet that most people taking that poll don't even know who Phil

Gramm is, nor what he was referring to with the whining comment. Stupid, stupid poll.

[depakid]

9. No, they didn't. It was another equivocal MSM poll

Taken at face value (without the Gramm reference equivocally tossed in) it's pretty reasonable to conclude that America is in fact full of whiners- but of course, that wasn't the purpose behind the poll.

[Ron Green]

3. I think this is a sample of those with household income of over

$425,000, and net worth above $6.5 million.

[Mz Pip]

5. Less than 5000 votes

for a national online poll. Pretty meaningless IMHO. Maybe the freepers posted it first. :shrug:

[ihavenobias]

8. Right. Besides, the underlying issue is clear

McCain and the republicans don't really think there's much of a problem here, and so .

[rox63]

10. It might be getting freeped

So perhaps we should all visit and try to reverse that.

[BklynChick]

11. I'm not gonna dignify that assinine poll with a response

[AllentownJake]

12. The statement on its own

I agree with. Taken in the context of the economy. I don't.

[vaberella]

13. People polled = Office workers at Time Magazine x 1000 . They sure as hell didn't ask me!

[Rainbowreflect]

14. But if you asked if they were whiners 99.9% would say no.