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63% Of Americans Say "Divided" & "Troubled" America Is On The Wrong Track
President Obama will proclaim that all is well but more is to be done tonight (we suspect) and lay out his agenda for fixing it all now (which we are sure will be different from the fixes of the last 5 years). However, as The WSJ reports, he faces a nation increasingly worried about his abilities, dissatisfied with the economy and fearful of the economy's future. Since the rise of modern polling in the 1930s, only George W. Bush has begun his sixth year in the White House on rockier ground than Mr. Obama. 59% are uncertain, worried, or pessimistic about the rest of Obama's term; 63% believe the US in on the wrong track; and, despite record high stock prices and 'wealth', 71% expressed some level of dissatisfaction with the broader economy.
Concerns abound...
The survey found that just over half of Americans disapprove of the president's job performance, with 43% approving, a trough that remains little changed since the early summer. Nearly six in 10 say they are uncertain, worried or pessimistic about what he will do with the remainder of his presidency. Disapproval for Congress, too, is near its all-time high.
Americans are generally satisfied with their own personal economic situation, and gauges of consumer confidence remain strong. But that optimism hasn't translated into strong confidence in the broader economy or the president. In the Journal poll, 61% of respondents said they were satisfied with their own financial situation, but 71% expressed some level of dissatisfaction with the broader economy.
Mr. Obama's low approval numbers spell trouble for congressional Democrats heading into midterm elections this November. Such contests are historically challenging to the party of incumbent presidents.
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37% OF ALL AMERICANS ARE ALCOHOLICS AND TO DRUNK TO KNOW!!
That's why you can't beat my 61 IQ. Of course if you are in trouble, you are on the wrong track, silly, everyone knows that.
You have to imagine these polls aren't really conducted but rather the responses and percentages are slapped on to present a choice view that seems like a real poll at the surface, but reeks of imposing pre-fabricated notions at its core.
On the high list (where people tend to look first):
- Ensuring access to preschool.
- Addressing Iran's nuclear program.
On the low list (where people tend to skip over):
- More oversight/limits on the intelligence system.
- Reducing income inequality. (it's actually income & wealth inequality, but since regular people only understand income inequality, that's how it is written)
What we need is immigration reform!
http://americandictators.blogspot.com/2014/01/real-immigration-reform.html
Put a bounty on them.
Again.... Because Obama!
3 people said Strong...
True, because there's no way you could have 16% who are optimistic!
I am surprised that people even talk to pollsters anymore.
pods
When you look at some of the crap that people are willing to do in order to get noticed on social media, it doesn't surprise me.
I am surprised that it's ONLY 63%
Well, youve got your banksters, the kleptocrats, the hoochie mommas, the crack heads, your wino-Americans, your voting illegal aliens (oops, sorry, your document challenged)...
Shit adds up.
Exactly! Which is why there's going to be an even stronger conservative backlash to all this shit soon.
I've been hopin' and waitin' and prayin' for a long time but all I see is further retreat and passivity.
Cranky old white guys just don't have the get up and go they once did....
I've never been contacted by a pollster. I always thought they had no interest what a middle class professional wage slave had to say. Over the years I have proven my theory correct.
Miffed;-)
And 8 out of 4 people say they're good at math.....
"despite record high stock prices and 'wealth', 71% expressed some level of dissatisfaction with the broader economy"
You don't say.
I wonder if that's because 80% of Americans effectively don't own any stocks at all?
and its why it will break up into 3+ countries someday
Nuthin' a good ol' Executive Order can't fix
This video sums this up perfectly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k50rGvQofok
People are *slowly* starting to get it. But then they get distracted by the political dujour of the day.
For example: I honestly think that Todd Akin was paid to say, "legitimate rape" by some lobbyist flack to distract the public (and most importantly, corporate media) from the on going LIBOR scandal.
Leftists lie. Who knew?
No, Akin is a ignorant misogynist who really believes that shit...
So, Sherlock, how would you fix things within the existing framework?
Why do women throw out that word misogynist out all the time as some kind of defining label? Who really gives a shit really. I've never seen a guy accuse someone of misandry. Maybe one has to be a woman to use those terms and I failed to get the memo or didn't take the correct classes in college.
Miffed;-)
Perhaps because you can call someone misogynist and not be bleeped out whereas "ignorant evangelical fucktard with zero regard for the rights of women" will get the axe...
Most know something is wrong but by design can't trace it back to the Central Banks.
I take it the 37% are the MIC, MSM, Bankers and Politicians?
Well, these malcontents obviously just haven't started going all-in on their Treasury IRA's yet....they'll surely fix everything.
The other 37% are braindead.
Why bother with remarks?
Does anyone find this to be a surprise?
The real surprise for the American people is that there is nothing that is going to make things any better short of major changes that many of them will find to be at odds with what they always thought....
That's the harsh reality that few 'Mericans are willing to grasp. This ride has run its course and it's coming to an end. We hopped on the wrong track decades ago but they're just now figuring it out.
Problem is, reality will not care about discomfort or uncomfortable truths, or ideology, beliefs economic theories, etc... It will kick our asses regardless of all that crap people thought was so important. How we adapt is the key. Poorly is my prediction.
That's called 'nothing to lose.'
In reality, it is hanging on to the shreds that you have and figuring out who took it from you and how they did it...
And yet an 80% job approval, in Washington DC!
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/gallup-obamas-job-...
Newly printed money benefits those who get to spend it first.
It's like asking ticks if they like their host and the taste of the blood.
Well sure, they're getting paid big thanks to .gov largess.
What is the figure now....7 of the 10 richest counties in the country surround Mordor on the Potomoc? Of COURSE they think things are peachy.....Dear Leader MaoBama has showered them with skittles galore...
What do you expect when you outsource the military because you know that a draft would lead to rioting in the streets...
And if you think BHO is to blame for that you are a deluded partisan hack... (Not that BHO and his crew have really tried to change things)
BHO is an affirmative action President who thinks there are 57 states in 'his' country and that Austrian is a language, an autocue-reading dummy with the usual suspects' hand up his ass. (I know he's had a few more hands up there in his bathhouse days.)
OT: Very bad scene here in Atlanta. Snowed after folks got to work & kids got to school. Everyone tried to leave in mass at noon when it started snowing. All major roads are totally gridlocked. Kids loaded on buses at luch time to leave school are stuck in it. People running out of gas on the streets. Cell phone services are getting overloaded. More snow on the way & 24 degrees (14 with wind chill right now).
Atlanta sucks on a nice day
That was Raleigh years ago. Everyone left after a dusting, everything turned to ice, and gridlock for 12 hours. It was surreal.
pods
The people living in Atlanta should have tried these things called All-Season tires. It's 4 degrees where I live and we got 18" of snow in two days. Last night was -12. I have no sympathy for people that don't plan. If they looked at a weather report for the past two weeks they knew the snow was coming. If you don't know how to drive in the snow or don't have the correct tires, don't go out.
I laugh at the idiots they showed on TV driving 60mph on an icy highway overpass with summer tires. You crashed because you were an idiot and I shouldn't have to pay higher insurance premiums because of their stupidity.
We have no snow removal equipment to speak of down here. Semi trucks are getting stuck on the interstates right now.
Stay home then.
Genius.
Good luck.
It's all due to Global Warming. I know, cause the nice man on TV told me so.
It's all due to Glo BULL Warming.
There fixed it for you
Good grief you would think the worlds coming to an end from what those nice men on TV tell you it's WINTER some are colder than others same as it ever was.
Yeah, because all the warm air moving into Alaska (setting record high temps) was able to push the now puny cold air masses out of the way...
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2620
They like to call it climate change now, that way they have both sides covered.
A better name would be "Increased Atmospheric Energy due to the Greenhouse Effect caused by Anthropogenic Emissions", since common people are unable to tell the difference between today's weather on 1% of the surface of the Earth, compared to the average temperature across the entire planet over the course of a year.
But do you have milk, bread and eggs?
That is what matters
Be careful Whoa.
I lived in Memphis and just the forecast of a light dusting of snow caused traffic jams a day before the snow came.
It was unreal. People were driving 10 mph and nothing was yet wrong with the roads. People in the south literally freak when "snow" is mentioned.
I drove thru Indiana when the first artic blast hit. 20-30 mph for about 250 miles. And I have AWD.
Took forever to get thru the state.......but I did. In one piece, too.
I saw a lot of semis and cars along the road that were not so lucky.
Notice that 90% say "creating jobs" the #1 priority.
That right there is your verifier that real unemployment is +15%.
That's pretty terrifying, that so many people want THE GOVERNMENT to "create" jobs.
The funny part is they believe government can create a job. This, fundamentally is the problem. The only thing government can do is get out of the way. And, if it did so, people would realize there is little use for government. Hmmm, wonder where that would lead?
Miffed;-)
anything the government does is so stupid, that there must be a plan behind it all...
You never know
A discomforting thought...
What if its REALLY true that the PTB really have no clue to what they are doing and nobody is flying the plane?
What if everyone thinks that as long as they keep doing what they're doing, that the plane will land itself?
"Me? I thought you had it?"
"Uh-oh."
The solution is one America for the producers and one America for the useless eaters. Then within ten years there won't be anymore useless eaters left and the real America can come back.
The useless eaters includes those that control 90% of the "wealth". The thing about unearned wealth is that it really doesn't exist unless someone with items of real value gives you something for it.
Let me guess...
Your idea is to just let them starve and hope that when they riot it isn't too bad...
And here we have Obama, targeting first time savers' money, when the Fed bankers have stolen, in this century alone, $10.8 trillion from America’s voiceless risk-adverse savers, caused by Bernanke’s ZIRP.
Why is it that the media says the president is successful and that this economy is in recovery when the polls show that people are dissatisfied with the President, the economy, and their prospects for the future?
It is because the media is lying and the president is lying; and the people can no longer swallow the lies, especially when they are experiencing severe deterioration of their economic positions and their liberty.
Obama is up against the flood of his continuing lies and it is only a matter of time before the people force a political solution, and should that fail, revolution. You can only go so far with a government that is operating on patently false hubris while the people – from the entrepreneurial middle class to the hard-working professional and self-made craftsman (i.e., the socialist-designated “rich”) -- are experiencing politically-instigated adversity and vilification.
And to think America was a self-made nation made by self-made men. Without an enabling environment that maintains order and protects private property and does not interfere in the economic realm, poverty will soon become the natural condition of, yes, even America, just as it has been the natural condition of the world from time immemorial.
Hey Al Gore you fat fuck.
Did you see where climate change ranks????
So go fuck off and die Al, you useless troublemaking fuck!!!!
It is natural for people to be more concerned about whether they will be able to eat tomorrow, compared to worrying about whether their unborn grandchildren will have anything to eat 100 years from now.
90+% say the highest priority of Congress and the President is "creating jobs." This mindset is a major part of the problem. Politicians CANNOT create jobs. They can only destroy them. Stop looking to government for answers and start looking to yourself.
"...promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty..."
And it's "promote" not provide and "welfare" as in an environment for self-sufficiency not a check from .gov.
If the government could only manage to do those two things and enforce the rule-of-law employment would be greatly improved, but they can't even perform the most basic functions tasked to them.
"Of the Banks, by the Banks, for the Banks" is the .gov motto.
Sad to say, but most Amerians do not understand how jobs are created. If they did they would not have rewarded politicians who Passed NAFTA, all the trade agreements with Asia/China. They would also demand to know what is in the secret global trade negotiantions currenly ongoing by this administraton. They would alo know that dismantling your plants, firing you workforce, moving labor hiring to Asia are not ways to create jobs.
We have become a country of clueless consumers, without any thought as to what our fathers and grandfathers knew of the dignity of work, and the obligations of citizenship and fair governance for all.
Sad just how many people think it's Gubmints place to "create" jobs. It is not and it was never intended to be, by the original crew that set this country up. The turds swimming around in the D.C. cesspool have done a great job of perverting the system.
Alex Jones had Bob Barr on last Thursday. He was a Congressman for 8 years back in the Clinton era. He was the one who brought up the charges of impeachment against Clinton and got enough co-signers to make it happen.
Bob Barr is a legal bad ass, ex-CIA, and a statesman along the lines of Ron Paul. Look him up.
Here's the kicker: Bob Barr is running for Congress again this year in Georgia and it sounds like he's easily going to win it. And when he does win, he will be one of the baddest mother fuckers in Congress, and he's going to go after obama immediately with the same charges of impeachment that he used against Clinton.
Here's the interview on Alex Jones...you all gotta listen to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24clEFBWqUg
Barr said he pulled out the impeachment paperwork he used against Clinton and dusted it off...then he updated what needed updating and crafted it for impeaching obama...he said it was easy given all the evidence against obama and his usurpation of the Constitution.
And since he already served 8 years in Congress previously, he gets all his seniority back...that means he can't be marginalized as some rookie freshman Congressman. He's a legal wizard and knows how to work Congress inside and out.
He's going to be obama's biggest nightmare and will quickly build a coalition against obama and the rest of the treasonous scum in Congress. I think we're going to see a lot more of the rats scurrying off the sinking ship once Barr gets back to town.
Here's his website...send him a few bucks, cuz we need this guy in D.C. big time to fight the fight up close and personal against obama and the rest of his scummy little miscreant crew.
http://barrcongress.com/
Pass the word around to everyone you email and let's help make sure Bob Barr gets back to D.C. so we can get this impeachment rolling!!!
Bet he has an unforseen heart attack or his car bursts into flames before then, unfortunately.
If the legal system worked Obama would already be out on the street. The cocksucker in chief is using a Connecticut Social Security number that he never would have been issued because he never lived in that state as well as the number belonged to a guy who died in the late 70's, early 80's (I forget) at the age of 86. The Selective Service card he has on file is a forgery, as testified by several forgery experts, as is his Birth Certificate. Every attempt to bring it up in court is dismissed because the plaintiffs don't have "standing", so the facts are never heard in court, it's maddening. All this and should anyone bring it up they are labeled a birther, a perjorative that is supposed to anoint superiority to the wielder of the label. Facts don't matter any longer and the MSM controls the minds of the masses. Insane!
That dog done quit huntin' a long time ago....
PS I hope you feel the same way about Ted Cruz, or did about Mittens....
Ted Cruz is Canadian. Why the fuck would anyone vote for him?
That is a very good question....
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For... the most glaringly obvious reason.
Bob Barr is... ex-CIA, and a statesman... -- Save_America1st
The two statements are mutally exclusive.
Why the down arrows??? FFS!
sour grapes. the sheep are just mad because they didn't get in on the twtr ipo. news flash: there's still time bytchez!
Funny how the BOTTOM three priorities are the ones Obama feels are important enough to justify wiping his ass with the Constitution.
It would seem that the SCOTUS would differ with you on that conclusion...
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More often than not, when I read about an individual who is "troubled," I find that their troubles ultimately involve their own choices and actions. It seems that "troubled person" is code for screwup, the same way that "transient" is code for a homeless person who commits a crime. This is the first time that I have seen the entire country referred to as "troubled."
The country is supposed to be "divided" there are no "americans" left only factions:
black and white
rich an poor
religious and not
gay and straight
blue collar and white collar
rural and urban
republicans and tea party
democrats and progressives
blue states and red states
good guys with a gun and bad guys with a gun
gun lovers and gun haters
calling anyone an american is a label that went away a long, long time ago .......... who can identify with that?
If the world has shrunk because of globalization, i guess the world is getting over populated.
Only 50+ comments til now?! Bullish!
"63% Of Americans Say "Divided" & "Troubled" America Is On The Wrong Track"
so what has to happen to get them to speak out louder?
"When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic." - George Orwell
More than 50% in this poll support raising the minimum wage? Now I know we're doomed. My guess is that same 50% supports doubling food stamp usage...and then doubling the amount dolled out, and also possibly being able to use that money as "income" for the purposes of securing a mortgage. But, I speculate.
It is very simple, any corporation having over 1,000 employees (including subsiduaries/franchises) has a minimum wage of $15.00 (basically the same level as in '60s...)
And if your Big Mac costs $0.04 more, deal with it...
Man, we really need Not Sure to save us.
At least President Camacho's State of the Union speeches have fireworks and a sweet mullet.
Luckily, the POTUS doesn't need to worry about that 63%... or even 99%.... and he doesn't.
Bullshit!
Obama's approval/disapproval would be 20 to 30 points worse if he didn't have the bootlicking, far-left dominated media on his side.
Are you channeling MDB?
50% think 50% are wrong
...and >0.01% thinks everything is hunky dory.
What the problem is?