What People Know...

"The individual is smart, the group is stupid" is basically what I'm getting at here... Really, I don't give a crap about any of this. Just throwing it out there.

• Nearly one-third of Americans (29 percent) think the Constitution guarantees a job. Forty-two percent think it guarantees health care. And 75 percent think it guarantees a high school education.
• Forty-five percent think the communist tenet "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" is part of the U.S. Constitution.
• More Americans recognize the Nike advertising slogan "Just do It" than know where the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is set forth (79 percent versus 47 percent).
• Ninety percent know that Bill Gates is the founder of the company that created the Windows operating system. Just over half (53 percent) correctly identified Alexander Hamilton as a Founding Father.
• Fewer than half of adults (47 percent) can name their own representative in Congress.
• Fewer than half of voters could identify whether their congressman voted for the use of force in the Persian Gulf War.
• Just 30 percent of adults could name Newt Gingrich as the congressman who led Republican congressional candidates in signing the contract with America. Six months after the GOP took congress, 64 percent admitted they did not know.
• A 1998 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press showed that 56 percent of Americans could not name a single Democratic candidate for president; 63 percent knew the name "Bush," but it wasn't clear that voters connected the name to George W. Bush.
• According to a January 2000 Gallup poll, 66 percent of Americans could correctly name Regis Philbin when asked who hosts Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but only 6 percent could correctly name Dennis Hastert when asked to name the speaker of the House of Representatives in Washington.

Remember, I don't care about any of this crap.