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Gallup Poll: Americans Most Negative On the Nation And Economy In 30 Years
Via Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
I guess Americans just haven’t heard of a little something called the stock market. Isn’t that right Bernanke? Wasn’t the stock market rally you engineered supposed to make everyone feel all nice and confident? Well the great middle class squeeze continues, as the stock market is for the 1% what food stamps are for the poor. They are just strategies to keep these groups apathetic and obedient. The middle class isn’t buying it though, as is evidenced by this recent Gallup Poll conducted January 7-10, 2013.
From Gallup:
PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. President Barack Obama begins his second term at a time when Americans are as negative about the state of the country and its prospects going forward as they have been in more than three decades. Fewer than four in 10 Americans (39%) rate the current status of the U.S. at the positive end of a zero to 10 scale. This is about the same as in 2010, but it is fewer than have said so at any point since 1979. As they usually are, Americans are more upbeat in their predictions of where the U.S. will be in five years (48% positive), but this is also lower than at any time since 1979.
The 39% of Americans who give a six to 10 rating when asked to evaluate the nation’s current status is similar to the 37% who said the same three years ago. Prior to that, however, assessments were generally more positive, including a 73% six to 10 rating in January 2001 — the highest on record. The three previous points in time when ratings were as low as or lower than the 2013 rating were in August 1979 (34%), April 1974 (33%), and January 1971 (39%). The 1979 measure came at a time when the economy was in bad shape and inflation was rampant, while the 1974 measure came in the midst of the Watergate scandal. When Gallup first asked the question in August 1959, 68% of Americans rated the state of the nation in the six to 10 range.
What about the future?
The 48% who give a six to 10 ranking when asked to project the status of the U.S. five years from now is tied with the 1979 measure as the lowest in Gallup’s history of asking the question. Additionally, the 40% who give a negative rating (zero to four) when asked to look ahead is lower than at any point in history. These negative ratings include 10% who say the situation of the country in five years will be zero, the worst they can imagine.
Not so much. Don’t worry Bernanke, I’m sure another 50 S&P handles will make everything better.
Full Gallup article here.
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Law of diminishing returns on bullshit. The real question is, when do these thieves reap the harvest?
What if the gubbmint gave away 50 million more obummer-iphones - wouldn't that (a) assure his re-re-election, and (b) fix the price of hotel applefornia? simple - two birds killed with one stone!
pst a very small percetage of Americans are even in the stock market...lol
Gallup Poll: Americans Most Negative On the Nation And Economy In 30 Years
And based upon this information they relected the worst President in the history of America? That election was either fixed or this report is utter bullshit.
So they could hear Beyonce sing
I'm going with door number one
Careful there's a tiger behind door number 2.
What would the stats be if you pulled the gov't loads, gov't contractor loads, unions and the rest on the gravey train?
Yes, ZapPowerz, Americans are, in point of fact, insane. As a former psych. and history major, I can assure you that your rhetorical question is a factual one. i have traveled reasonably extensively and the English language newspapers are eye opening; the news you read about the U.S. makes you realize how isolated and propagandized we are. If you want to get real news now, you have to leave the country! Thank god for my blogs, like ZH!
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Damn, some of you guys, if not most live in a bubble... prep? Prep for what? Now, I'm not saying its wise not to be prepared to some level, but if you think your going to hold out or form a "community group" (hahaha love that...) you have another thing coming.
Ever run strategic sims on population control? I didn't think so. Chances are that if everything went to absolute shit, 80% of city pops would be gone in 6-12 months. Chances of re-entering said city - ZERO, as roving gangs would have already have formed. ...lets however, not go so far as to say total, mad max collapse, lets go 50% or less... govt contingency/CoG will be up and running within 3 hours max. ...and you won't know, nor most, when the timer starts.
Total commod control, etc. People will turn in their neighbors for what have you. ...and they will round you up. You Lone Wolf guys better understand that if, and thats a BIG if, you want to stay under the radar, you have to go 100% mobile with as little shit as possible. Holding out in a centralized, localized area is a 100% one way ticket to hell...
Go ahead, poo-poo me all you want, if you only knew...
Where I live we had a guy that murdered a few people and then played cat and mouse with 5 swat teams for 3 months. Arron Bassler.
you lose the power grid and the shit hits the fan in 10 days not 6 months. Dysentary and starvation. No gasoline, no water. no food.
The feds sit in their bunkers and enjoy the show. D.C. has more miles of underground bunkers than Berlin during WWII.
Then there's Wright Patterson, Vandenburg,etc. Hell the air force has a whole Mountain hollowed out in Colarado.
They own all the guns, the money and the bunkers. You think they'd be happy instead of being such a bunch of paranoid pyschopaths. The best government money can buy. Bill of rightss and Constitution Optional, not available wher prohibited by law.
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Sorry federal gov has a lock on fertilizer. They bought all the Bullshit futures beginning in 1987. They use social security payroll deductions to fund them.
Next time some says social security ain't worth shit tell them they're wrong. It's entirely composed of 100% bullshit.
Now the Federal Rserve that's mostly horse shit, hence all those little green shoots popping up. Look at ben bernanke. You can smell the horseshit before he even speaks.
Cow shit? executive branch, they're up to their armpits in it. Obama can't keep the flies out of the white house in January. It takes a mighty load of assorted fecal matter to make a tremendous State of the union speech and thats probably just where those maggots are breeding, oh and probably the flies too.
you want fertilizer? you are shit out of luck bub.
how the fuck do you read that chart?
left to right?
.... These negative ratings include 10% who say the situation of the country in five years will be zero, the worst they can imagine.
Good to see they interviewed a few Zerohedgers.
wow. looks like everything went straight up during the Clinton years.
Gallup. The same polling firm that predicted Romney would would win the hearts and minds of Americans, and skip into the White House 'crossed a path strewn with rose petals and palm fronds.
I read this firm just got fired by USA Today.. mostly for getting wrong nearly everything they polled.
Think about it.. even the USA Today couldn't put up with it anymore.