I read the following sentence several times before I figured out what the writer meant. It appeared in a letter to the editor in The Birmingham News this morning:
People will be forced to buy health insurance just as they force us to buy auto insurance.
This sentence boomerangs between two points of view--that of "the people" and that of the unseen power that is doing the forcing. It is impossible, as written, to tell who "they" and "us" refer to.
A much better version of what the writer means would be:
People will be forced to buy health insurance just as they (the people) are now forced to buy auto insurance.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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