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What Americans Think Is The #1 US Problem
... it's government.
Gallup adds:
While dissatisfaction with government is by no means a new issue to the American people, it has not in recent months been as clearly the leading problem as it is now, given that fewer Americans mention the economy.
Meanwhile, satisfaction with the direction of the U.S. remains relatively upbeat compared with figures from recent years, but two-thirds of Americans continue to be dissatisfied.
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The nigga in the WH
Just wait another year or so when the economy tanks for real, it will shoot up, along with dissatisfaction with government. It's also refreshing to see that since it didn't even get 3%, global warming bullshit didn't even register, despite the endless propaganda people are bombarded with by the Obama regime and the media. Maybe the propaganda isn't as effective as I thought. As much as the cynic in me doesn't want to admit it, this poll ALMOST makes me a little optimistic
The real problem is that part of the 18% thinks government is not doing enough.
there are actually 3 problems.
federal government
state government
and local government
You have to add the 4% who mentioned 'Foreign Policy' as the most urgent problem to the 18% because it is actually the same problem - dissatisfaction with government (policy).
I thought the title was just a statement.
I would say that yes, what americans think IS the #1 problem.
Feels like I'm on a different planet most times.
pods
critical thinking, reading comprehension, the follies of the common man. or atleast we are lead to believe that. trying to be a glass half full kinda guy today
Stop it, Pods..., you're killing me...
+100
That list would be totally inverted if you had the gov-scum take the same poll.
Total treasounous disconnect.
I disagree. To me, there is only ONE main problem with our global society. That is: what kind of monetary system we have and who controls it. All other issues (including government) are trickle-down results of the actions of the money masters who control us all. With their pockets collecting the usurious interest on trillions of dollars, yen, euros, etc... they have complete autonomy over us. With this power, they buy scum politicians and influence which shapes the course of all world events.
THIS is the central issue that we must deal with before all else.
youre right. in socialist new world govenment, banks and government are one in the same. that old saying, money is the root of all evil. well, maybe it should have went something more like, "fiat money lent with interest is the root of all evil".
actually can i redact all of my previous comments? im now learning that the real reason for such vast discontent among the american populace is the discontinuation of the Mc Rib sandwhich at mickey deez. its all so blatantly clear now.
For me the biggest issues facing our country are:
Global warming
The Hobby Lobby decision
Marriage inequality
Discrimination against gays in the military
Discrimination against women at work
Lack of gay rights
Lack of transgender rights
Lack of lesbian rights
Lack of gays and blacks and latinos in the media and entertainment industry
Lack of rights for undocumented workers
Lack of free housing
Lack of free healthcare
People being forced to get a job
Not enough government subsidies for iPhones and iPads
Racism
Dismantling of Affirmative Action
Not enough government in our lives
Not enough welfare
The rise of Domestic Extremists like most ZHers who think they should have "freedumb" in their lives (ha ha)
I can go on and on all day and night but it'll just get me all worked up.
WE MUST DO SOMETHING!
It's probably just a psychological block (too horrible to contemplate), but wouldn't "Anti-gay Tea Partiers" make your list?
They would fall under the "Racism" or "Domestic Extremists" category in my book.
WE MUST DO SOMETHING!
'Remain Calm', I don't like Obama either, but it has nothing to do with him being black. He is a poor leader, he is divisive, he encourages racial divide (has he said anyting yet about the cop shootings in Ferguson?) and he will sacrifice people in a shamelss manner to achieve his political ends. When you use a word like n---a you show yourself to be everything that Obama has been complaining about and give him evidence to support his claims. You give legitimacy to him and Al Sharpton. Morons in the minority like you make it miserable for everyone else, I would not even be surprised if you are a liberal zealot raising a 'false flag'. In any event you're a racist pig asshole.
Not possible to give legitimacy to the mullatto in chief. Nothing to do with his blackness? Has everything to do with his blackness. He is the best and brightess of that DNA pool. Just ask them. His dna stench will remain reguarless of your idiocy. Oh, and go F#k off. Good example of nature vs nurture. His nature was swinging in the trees and chucking spears and his nurture was the teet sweet leftist dogma of mamma. He got a bum deal if you ask me.
You are as well. Obama may be black and a racist...but I choose to be intelligent and non-racist. You are the kind of person that liberals use when they scream about racism and people like you make life miserable for non-racist conservatives like me, so go fuck off back at yourself you turdbucket scum sucker.
"He is the best and brightess of that DNA pool."
No he's not. I call BS.
How about this? http://www.sapiocracy.com/
"People being forced to get a job"
That in and of itself makes your post brilliant! Please keep up the great satire, Liberal.
No one is that liberal. This has to be satir.
is a satir a genetic relative of a tapir?
No one is that liberal
Wanna bet? I did a job for a nurse that said she had a patient about 60 yo refusing to follow diabetes instructions because ..wait for it... "He could have his head chopped off from ISIS sleepers any day."
*Liberal was doing a /sarc
2/3rds of Americans are dissatisfied with government.
1/3 is not in the labor force and couldn't afford to participate in our polls.
It's called fascism. Not socialism (it's defined on whether the power is private or public/State. Right now the power is in the hands of an oligarch class. A minority of 0,01 % is in control. The "public/State" is just a tool. Fascism is the mergin of private and public power - a totalitarian system in place to serve and protect it's private masters/old money). Socialism has an anarchist and stateless variant that actually was - and many places in Europe still is - the dominant paradigm of the opposition (not in a political partyline sense - but opposition to the system as such).
Careful Bach... Jesus threw the money changers out of the Temple and was hanging on a cross within three days. They don't like when the righteous challenge their cash flow.
You know those FX places they have at airports? Thats moneychanging.
You know those credit cards every one is offered, at 24%+ rates? Thats usury.
Its fascinating to me that THAT stuff used to get you killed, or at least exiled, in medieval times. And these days, its just run of the mill! Wonga etc can advertise on TV, and credit card companies can send you a credit card unsolicited, in the mail!
'Tis better to be crucified in serving the truth than to slave for the devil's children in perpetuity. When this great feat of overthrowing the money changers is finally accomplished, REAL history will begin - that is - undistorted and natural history - the way God intended.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security
Quoting 18th century parchments will get you locked up these days.
"Give me control of a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws". - Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
Another cosaquience of FIAT. Whan banks can print fiat to buy a politician. We have a major problem.
And with no limit to paper and ink there is no limits to the problems.
The psychopaths will always rule and the morons will always mewl.
I feel sorry for people who are incapable of rejecting evil.
I wouldn't be so quick to think the dynamics of human decisionmaking cannot change. Applied technology can be a very powerful force. http://www.sapiocracy.com/
I think thinking Americans are not asked what they think in thinking polls.
Personally, asking general questions is useless in any polling. What I think about government is vastly different from my neighbor that retired at 55 and is grossing 15k a month gov. pension. Even those " job surveys" at work tho "improve" the work place are a farce. The last one I took had one area you could comment. The question was " tell how you feel this is the best place to work" I proceeded to do the opposite when I quickly ran out of characters and it automatically submitted with no way to return to change your answers.
Why ask how your victim feels when they are being assraped?
Miffed
15k per month? Goddamn!
I just started drawing my 'pension' at age 56...$954.00/mo.....filled out the forms not 2 months ago, just got the first 2 checks allegedly deposited....figured I better get 'something' before some mudwhistler accountant stole it all....
Evidently I chose the wrong career path and went into American Manufacturing...was in a shitty, dark, unwholesome shop every morning on time at O dark for 30yrs straight...breathing cutting oil and forklift exhaust, not missing a day ever, making shit out of heavy bars of steel...and I have at least 10 yrs to go!
What a fucking dope I am, on that we can all agree! Save me Lord Jesus, or any reasonable semblance there of!! To top it all off, we are now uninsured...not that it matters to me...I havnt seen a doctor or dentist for over 10yrs...just an anonymous American plow mule here rambling....I'd like to kick somebodies head off, I just dont know whos...
Reality is their illusion.
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Their fiction is the reality.
Dude see dentist, get that crap scrapped off your teeth... its building up in your heart if its building up on your teeth.
Plus, your missus will probably like you better.
Wow, I'm impressed. The size of Kim Kardashian's ass didn't make the list this time.
Jeez - I rarely run into anybody who thinks. When I do, it feels like you're the last of the people on the Earth to not be taken over by the Pod People (as I furtively look around for Donald Sutherland...) ...
PODS........ you should be so lucky.
Nailed it. They are one and the same any more.
I got involved in some local issues to see if there was indeed local control.
I am sure you already know the answer.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/02/24/video-of-the-day-watch-as-florid...
school board treats parents like children, censorship
good job mike krieger
The 50% on FSA negate a lot of disatification
you forgot property owner associations, or maybe justed lumped that under local?
no doubt self governance is the way, but some bipeds always seem disinclined ... note i did NOT use the word human
Why haven't "We the People" fired these assholes again?
iphone
ipad
iwatch
iTV
idistracted?
Over half of our "elected" officials break the law and think they are above the law on a regular basis and nothing happens.
So what are you going to do about it?
Squirrel... iwant, iwatch, idumb, islave...
"Government" is NOT in charge!
http://www.rense.com/general86/pres.htm
since you obviously know what the problem is - care to share any CONSTRUCTIVE ideas on what to do?
History teaches that there only one way to reverse such tyranny and it's kind of the opposite of "peaceful protest".
No, no, you are supposed to follow Gandhi's example. Even when they start shooting you, or riding over you with cavalry/tanks.
No, no, no!!! The way to change the system is to get involved at the nitty-gritty local political level, build alliances with other interests, and work you way up into state, and then federal office.
Just funnin' ya, of course.
I'll echo ejmoosa's comment, and say that if you really want to get depressed about the future of representative government, get involved it. I'm still amazed that Ron Paul, after thirty years of immersion in US federal politics, didn't end up slashing his wrists.... Of course, the benefits are not too shabby, so there's that.
Or just do something completely different. http://sapiocracy.com/
We're not in control. That's just an illusion. Who was worse? The Nixon admininistration or King Five Iron?
http://thecivillibertarian.blogspot.com/2015/03/where-is-richard-nixon-w...
Really? When they tried to take the firearms, who was in control then?
When they wanted to create WWIII starting in Syria with chemical false flags, who was in control then?
When they wanted to start WWIII in Russia/Ukraine with that false flag Malysia Airlines flight, who was in control then?
When Monsanto poisoned the food supply, attempting to cull the herd, and people have since wised up and begun buying more organic/homegrown/independent supplier foods, who was in control then?
EVERY SINGLE TIME the people stand up and raise their voice in unison, parasites become powerless, and MUST back down, otherwise they face pitchforks and torches. Oh yeah, that's another one, people in Oregon recently surrounded city hall with pitchforks and torches when the gov threatened to destroy all homeless camps. No shit, look it up.
Everything happening today may be depressing on its surface, but look not to the actions of parasites, rather look to the reactions of good-hearted, decent, productive people. Don't even give your mental energy to humanoids who usurp and destroy values.
How about this? http://www.sapiocracy.com/
Forgot world government.
they're mostly still a figment of rothschild's imagination
There are 3 problems alright. And it's not just "Them" (.gov), as maskone909 states. If you think deeper, and refrain shooting from the hip, you'll find the real culprits:
1. The Banksters: Currency & Banking Ponzi (fiat money + FRB)
2. The Body Politic: Hijacked Governance process (lobbying --> who runs and gets elected --> corruption of Checks & Balances)
3. The People: Too many Voters are dumb, lazy and uniformed, to keep #1 and #2 in line. "We have seen the enemy, and he is us".
ALL else are cascading results of these 3 fundamental problems.
Where is WS on that list? Or is that mixed in with Government?
What about the FED? Or is that mixed in with Government?
Even though they have corrupted Government, they are not supposed to be one and the same...
I recognise that surveys have to be dumbed down, but I question whether any actionable data can be drawn from this...
my goodness, cannot give enough upvotes... they can start w/ property tax relief and work their way from there, the polls would improve right quick
Only 3? You forgot about all those (failing) departments of government, the Military Industrial Complex, the Prison Industrial Complex, and let's not forget the 100 million government employees sucking the life blood out of the nation of tax slaves.... (for starters)
The superstition that even more government will fix all those fuck-ups resulting from past demands for even more government. We never seem to learn. What is overlooked is any discussion on the need for government altogether.
Of course, who was responsible for their edewkayshin?
If you think it's only (less than) 18% who have this delusion...
"Government isn't the solution to our problem. Government is the problem." R. Reagan, host of Death Valley Days and spokesman for 20 Mule Team Boraxo.... oh, yea, and the President who cleaned up the mess left by the SECOND worst President....
If by "worst", you mean incompetent, you may well be correct.
Still Mr. Carter still had some grasp of ethics, I think. You don't get to be a nuclear physicist, peanut-subsidy tycoon, and Governor of Georgia, without a solid foundation in Southern Baptist moral teachings.
Goldman Sachs sold their shares in the carbon credit exchange 2 years ago. That was when I knew the big boys had abandoned that scam. There is still a raggedy ass band of true believers who will keep moaning about Global Warming or Climate Change until they die and so politicians will pay lip service but no one takes it seriously.
If you don't think humanity is having a disasterous effect on the environment, you're only seeing what you want to see.
Humans may have SOME effect on the environment, but just a few hours from my home is a very large vein of coal running through the foothills of the Appalacians. This vein was formed by shifting glaciers a very long time ago. Long before the automobile or even plastic bottles.
So what caused that dramatic climate change? Indian horse shit?
I will not answer your question. The science is settled.
anyone who thinks science is settled doesn't really understand how science works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum#/media/File:Kepler...
The planets move in concentric circles, with the Earth at the centre of the universe. This guy settled it, 400+ years ago.
And red shift "proves" he was correct, even though the big bang never really happened.
May have some effect? Every other extinction event in the geological record takes place over the course of millions of years; the one which is occurring right now is happening on the order of a few thousand years, and has accelerated rapidly in the last 100-200. You think that's a coincidence?
There is a fucking new continent made out of plastic in the Pacific ocean. Wake up.
Lots of people think the biggest problem in the world is feeding all of the hungry people. I think people are the world's only problem and we should probably stop feeding them.
Earth is getting closer to the sun.
Decaying orbit.
All good things must end, earth included.
Everyone is doomed to die, except the richest, fittest, and most cruel oligarchs.
That's why they are actively privatizing the space programs, despirately searching for habitable planets, and amassing obscene power and wealth.
I hope and pray their new planet has strict imigration laws.
'As much as the cynic in me doesn't want to admit it, this poll ALMOST makes me a little optimistic'
Nah, this just means that people think it can be fixed by kicking out the old set of goons and replacing them with a new set of goons, which basically amounts to another 4 years of "hope and change" from another democrat or republican.
I know, you said ALMOST.
Wrong
It is the Whitehouse
Period
Anything beyond local (and even that) seems to metastasize in no time
Double wrong.
It's the puppeteer behind the WH, period.
Naming Names: Your Real Government by Tony Cartalucci
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/naming-names-your-real-governm...
Outstanding link C. fritter! I am really starting to enjoy your posts.
Thank you for the link Cornfritter!
thank a true light that maps the way, and consider thanking an even truer Light that maps the Way
Good luck reforming the mob
If only we get the right man in office, all will be fixed / sarc
Wonder if he can borrow Biden's shotgun... That will scare them.
....but not in SAE
CROOKED BANKERS/PRIVATE EUQITY/BILLIONAIRES Buying our government for their pleasure!!! The massive debt is yours and the profits are theirs!
1. entitlement mentality
2. too many deadbeats that wont work or get an education
3. politicians are bought by big business and rewarded with favorable circumstances therefore undermining capitalism. losers now win, winners now lose.
4. governemnt propping up bullshit companies, tesla, solyndra, etc
5. too many people dont pay taxes and vote to take more stuff from the actual taxpayers
6. welfare underacheivers are out breeding alphas therefore lowering the bar
7. too many deadbeat parents that dont teach their children right from wrong, discipline, or the value of an education
8. liberal media bombarding the citizens with racial problems that arent that bad and creating more entitlement attitudes
9. to be continued
[2. too many deadbeats that wont work or get an education]
Have you seen the student debt levels?
high school is free. most southern states have a graduation rate of less than 70%
which means only 30% escape w/o being brainwashed, though admittedly "they" start much earlier...
private tutoring has always been the way to go, for conscious people that actually love their children
best, from TX
Free? Tell it to my local tax collector.
Some folks just don't have enough common sense to take on a measley $100,00 in student loan debt. They suffer for it in the end, because without a college degree, they will never get one of those sought after bartender jobs that are available to college grads.
"entitlement mentality"
Entitlement on WS that profits are always theirs with no risk and losses. Risk and losses are for the little people.
I have no idea why you are getting marked down when you are 100% accurate.
The only ones who are entitled is Those Government Employees!!!
I consider him a tight assed white communist boy who's slut momma slept around with the brothers.
Actually, she slept with anyone her CIA manager told her to sleep with.
He's the placeholder in a symbolic posiotion. There is never any person of real power at 1600 Pennsulvania Avenue.
Don't get caught up in the Left-right Red-Blue Liberal-Conservative TV game show. It's all part of the Bread and Circuses of the 21st century.
I'd buy that for a dollar!!!
It is far more polite to use the title HNIC.
Well obviously this can't be correct, "global warming" isn't even on the list!!!
remain calm: The ignorant idiot.
Black or white (black and white) he is the worst POTUS since Franklin Pierce ... Wait make that since King George
No wonder they keep trying to distract American's with Kardashian ass..
Great proof of your intelect
Downvoted for not knowing Soros was, is, and always will be the POTUS, even in his grave. Obama is just his current henchman.
If I had another downvote to give well you can figure out why.
The Government .... that's the PC way to say .... "da Niggah in dee Wite Haus" .... (Ebonix Protocols) !
watch it suckah...try use nigrow insted...
The key word here is thinking. I think that is the #1 problem.
It's actually 'Full-Time Legislatorship', but I get the 'thinking' part too...
The one party system is working fine!
Please, what about Kardashians or football????
Clamshell packaging should really be polling higher.
Nice, 813...
Also, how many unemployed and chronically people were polled?
Let us not get off topic.
Clamshell packaging is a silent killer and the hidden driver behind rising healthcare costs, which of course is an imminent risk to Homeland Security. Brookings Institution reports reveal that Chinese factories are the source of these weapons of mass destruction. Those factories must be neutralized before the lethal materials make their way into the hands of an expansionist Russia for potential use in the warheads of ICBM missiles, which threaten democracy around the globe.
Those who harness the destructive power of clamshell packaging control the world.
There's a clam that controls the world alright. It all went to hell after we gave its noisy, nit-picking packaging the right to vote.
The world would be much better off if women were stripped of their privilege to vote.
The subject really deserves its own web site. I believe you've struck a nerve.
Yeah, and when you ask them what's wrong with 'government', how many do you think are going to respond with something like: 'There's too much of it', as opposed to: 'They're not Doing Enough'...?
Precisely. These polls mean nothing without that insight.
"Grid lock is the problem!" would probably be more commonly heard than "Bullshit government regulations prevent me from investing in private companies because I'm not rich enough!"
Right. The government will respond by creating a new agency to manage this dire issue. They'll overshoot their $200B budget in their first year and come to the conclusion that they are in fact the problem and will require an additional $100B to work towards a recommendation.
I agree with you whole heartedly.
That's the problem right there. It depends on perspective. Readers of this site would typically say the govt is doing WAY too much, in every single category, and failing miserably in every thing they endeavor to. Those on the left would probably say they need to back off on military spending , and ramp up the redistributionist policies to combat income inequality( that the govt and fed created...) with moar welfare and higher taxes, while those on the right would say the gov is doing too much taxing and welfare spending, but not doing enough to fight "terrorism" or "the war on drugs" or keeping gay people from getting married, etc. the key point here is tht most Americans still want a govt that does a lot of things that are not within the proper role of govt.
I need to take a drive around Baltimore during a week day to make two points:
yup ...
"clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here i am, stuck in the middle with you.."
Terrorism!
who's ?
Corruption - sign of a communist decline
Then America has been in decline since July 5th 1776.
people's 401K's are nearing their old peaks (when stocks were 1550, and with 7 years less contributions in them), so the economy is great again in the eyes of the peasants......
People seem to think all the 401k money is theirs. They need to watch a couple youtube videos with George Carlin to see who the acutal owners are or will be.
upvote for you my friend!
Household wealth just reported at 83 trillion.
A nice 10% surcharge would fix everything for the gubermint
and with the massive deflation they should really enjoy themselves during the depression
And how many unemployed have drained those 401 funds to exist? And how much FED money has taken its place?
'we' need a terrorist attack to fix these stats.
email your concerns about government to hdr22@clintonemail.com
18% of Americans can think?
That number will be determined by a separate poll.
A forever optimist!
The majority of those 18% wants more efficient, more intrusive government..
Queue social security administration solicitation for another mass ammo purchase on fedbizops.
The govt buys a zillion rounds of ammo for Homeland Security and thousands of machine guns for the post office for a reason. Namely, it sounds a lot more palatable to the public than "We're buying all these weapons for our ISIS employees so we can tear up Iraq again and murder Assad for our new puppet regime in Syria."
No one in the public actually knows where those weapons and ammo go after the purchase.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
-Patrick Henry
"The duty of a Patriot is to protect his country from its government.”
– Thomas Paine
That sums it up well I believe....
I hate when Patriots get quoted....
"What difference does it make...." name the anti-patriot
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it..." name the anti-patriot
Must be all those terrorists that voted, the ones that Holder has been going after!
Obama, Clintons, Bush's, Senate/House Leaders, Insane-McCain, Lindsey Graham, Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Ahh Fuck; do I need to go on?
Every issue on this list ties in with "Government," so I'm not sure what the point of the survey really is.
"Government" is a great rodeo clown for the typical American, so that's what you see on TV news. If people started digging in on any of the other issues on the list, they'd soon start thinking about who benefits from their declining standard of living and general malaise. If they can be pointed toward "The Government," their energies will be safely dissipated. It's a pressure relief valve. And the next time there's an election, they'll vote for whomever talks tougher about killing foreigners and promises to restore ancient privileges long since divested to the benefit of the elites.
I mean, who the fuck do we Americans think "The Government" is?
Gotta agree wholeheartedly. I didn't see my #1 choice up there. It would go something like this: An infinite growth paradigm supporting a ponzi scheme to prop up a failing civilization based on a fraudulent money system. Like you said, having the .gov take the blame helps the plebs let off some steam. What's on t.v. tonight?
After all that money wasted on global warming propaganda!
It wasn't wasted. Al Gore alone made 5 billion out of it. Hundreds of otherwise unemployable academics got tenure and good jobs out of it. Junkets to climate conferrences from Rio to Copenhagen. If you were part of the scam there was plenty of money to go around.