[PAA-Discuss] Poll: 81% Think US on Wrong Track

[zappa2004]

The are afraid they might get "Spitzed".

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Apparently, the only people opposing impeachment are the talking heads in
the corporate media and the cowardly Congresscritters who are terrified of
them.





> I guess the sociopathic, malevolent vice president, Dick Cheney would give
> a
> resounding SO to this situation. If you read through the article you will
> see that roughly 28% of the American people still think Bush is just a
> stand
> up kinda guy who's doing a bang up job as president. Those roughly 30%ers
> as
> I call them are completely deluded and there is NO getting through to
> them.
> This country is in dire straits. I believe the American people or at least
> the vast majority of them have tied this administration and the Congress
> to
> all the problems we are having. Those polled also DON'T want the banks
> bailed out by the FED. They want those homeowners helped who are at risk
> for
> losing their homes. Just when I'm about to give up on the American people
> as
> being completely retarded, apathetic consumers they show me they at least
> have sense enough to recognize when they're getting screwed and who's
> doing
> the screwing. It does give me a modicum of hope.
>
>
>
> Kris
>
>
>
>
> Poll: 81 Percent Think US on Wrong Track
>
>
> 5 hours ago
>
> NEW YORK (AP) - More than 80 percent of Americans believe the country is
> headed in the wrong direction, the highest such number since the early
> 1990s, according to a new survey.
>
> The CBS News-New York Times poll released Thursday showed 81 percent of
> respondents said they believed "things have pretty seriously gotten off on
> the wrong track." That was up from 69 percent a year ago, and 35 percent
> in
> early 2002.
>
> The survey comes as housing turmoil has rocked Wall Street amid an
> economic
> downturn. The economy has surpassed the war in Iraq as the dominating
> issue
> of the U.S. presidential race, and there is now nearly a national
> consensus
> that the United States faces significant problems, the poll found.
>
> A majority of Democrats and Republicans, men and women, residents of
> cities
> and rural areas, college graduates and those who finished only high school
> say the United States is headed in the wrong direction, according to the
> survey, which was published on The New York Times' Web site.
>
> Seventy-eight percent of respondents said the country was worse off than
> five years ago; just 4 percent said it was doing better.
>
> The newspaper said Americans are more dissatisfied with the country's
> direction than at any time since the poll's inception in the early 1990s.
> Only 21 percent of respondents said the overall economy was in good
> condition, the lowest such number since late 1992. Two in three people
> said
> they believed the economy was already in recession.
>
> Still, the approval rating of President George W. Bush did not change
> since
> last summer, with 28 percent of respondents saying they approved of the
> job
> he was doing.
>
> The poll also found that Americans blame government officials for the
> housing crisis more than banks or home buyers and other borrowers. Forty
> percent of respondents said regulators were mostly to blame, while 28
> percent named lenders and 14 percent named borrowers.
>
> Americans favored help for people but not for financial institutions in
> assessing possible responses to the mortgage crisis. A clear majority said
> they did not want the government to lend a hand to banks, even if the
> measures would help limit the depth of a recession.
>
> Respondents were considerably more open to government help for homeowners
> at
> risk of foreclosure. Fifty-three percent said they believed the government
> should help those whose interest rates were rising, while 41 percent said
> they opposed such a move.
>
> The nationwide telephone survey of 1,368 adults was conducted from March
> 28
> to April 2. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage
> points.
>
>
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