Belief System

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Lenin
"There's a sucker born every minute." - P.T. Barnum
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care." - Sarah Palin
The initial exercise would be to determine what all of these quotes have in common. That third one kind of sticks out due to its wordiness, but you forgive that kind of thing from a maverick poet like the "relinquished" governor of Alaska. Instead, let's change the focus and try to figure out how all those quotes relate to a survey, on assertions the White House has called myths, that found that more than fifty percent of Americans believe a public insurance option will increase health care costs. See how more information makes it easier to connect ideas?
How about this one: Roughly six out of ten Americans believe taxpayers will be required to pay for abortions. According to Fox "We Declare, You Accept" News, only about four out of ten Americans believe in UFOs. So, if there's a sucker born every minute and you tell a lie enough, you're bound to believe that death panels will decide the fate of your unborn children. Death panels that may, or may not, be composed of beings from another galaxy.