[Iran Press TV] The results of a new Gallup poll indicate that 81 percent of American citizens are dissatisfied with the current situation in the United States.
According to the poll released on Monday, only 17 percent of those surveyed said they were optimistic about the future and happy with the way things were going.
Similar to previous Gallup polls of the year, most respondents blamed a struggling economy and unemployment for their dissatisfaction. Some 30 percent of those polled maintained their biggest problem was the economy, while 24 percent of the surveyed voiced concern about unemployment.
A general dissatisfaction with the US government and the federal deficit were also cited by 13 percent and 10 percent of the respondents respectively.
Another survey carried out by Gallup last week found that Americans' opinion of Congress had sunk to its lowest level ever with 83 percent, saying they were unhappy with the way Congress was working.
Over the year, more and more people have said they feel like the United States is heading in the wrong direction.
Also a survey released in mid-October by Gallup showed that 54 percent of US voters believe Obama does not deserve a second term in office, with only 39 percent supporting his re-election.
Obama's average approval rating, which has declined each quarter since he took office last year, has during this quarter, dropped to a new low.
An unemployment rate of nearly 10 percent, a home foreclosure crisis and the war in Afghanistan are major issues swaying voters to support the Republicans.
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The only number I follow is the 84% of incumbents who ran & were re-elected last month.
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Two or three generations ago, 80%+ were extremely happy with about half the square footage of living space (which they far less frequently owned themselves), older vehicles (if they owned one at all) instead of the latest and greatest, about 10% of the toys (which were more often than not tools and not trinkets), having avocations outside of work (fishing, hunting, quilting, cooking, etc.) instead of having nothing but work and surveying your possessions to define one's life, and having to largely entertain themselves (you know, doing icky things like interacting with your neighbors and community).
Can't discount the political woes we face in the age of Obama, Reid, Pelosi, but a big chunk of "headed in the wrong direction" is from within. We've told ourselves we require what rich people had 60 years ago just to view ourselves as middle class. Stop that and a lot of the angst evaporates.
We can do it. On an economic level America is about opportunity, not outcomes. Get back to that, and reconnect with the main stuff America is about like liberty, and even in these hard times people can be happy.
The reason for the season, like the reason for America, isn't money and stuff. To the Christian 'burgers, have a Merry Christmas. To the others, enjoy the season.
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Close to half are unhappy because it's too liberal and close to half are unhappy because it's too conservative.
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half of us are mad because we are paying for the other half and see that the system punishes too much effort and success and rewards breathing and minority status. The others are unhappy because they don't get more....
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another reason to give thanks this Christmas. This unprincipled hack POS pol got primaried after switching parties, complains about lack of loyalty. FOAD you cretin
Posted by: Frank G ||
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God loves irony.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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The net neutrality vision for government regulation of the Internet began with the work of Robert McChesney, a University of Illinois communications professor who founded the liberal lobby Free Press in 2002. Mr. McChesney's agenda? "At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies," he told the website SocialistProject in 2009. "But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control."
A year earlier, Mr. McChesney wrote in the Marxist journal Monthly Review that "any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself." Mr. McChesney told me in an interview that some of his comments have been "taken out of context." He acknowledged that he is a socialist and said he was "hesitant to say I'm not a Marxist." So how did this happen, prithee tell?
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a judge has already ruled FCC didn't have the authority to do this without express approval from Congress. Next Congress, invoke Congressional Review of the rules, and cut the FCC budget to nil. That will send a message to Lil Eddie Munster Genachowski
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/22/2010 16:04 Comments ||
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This guy McChesney wants government subsidized press (i.e. NPR on a grand scale) - he had no understanding or real interest in net neutrality, it's just an excuse to expand government.
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Robert McChesney, a University of Illinois communications professor who founded the liberal lobby Free Press in 2002.
Free Press? It's not about a free press, it's about media control. These leftists are trying to control the message. Starve the FCC of money; cut there budget to zero if they won't obey the legislative branch/courts of the country.
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...Good thing TOTUS isn't a Republican, or this would be a Bad Thing(TM).
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
12/22/2010 11:26 Comments ||
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I distinctly remember "Close Guantanimo"
Lying bastard.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
12/22/2010 13:48 Comments ||
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The WhiteHouse was trying to spin this as a 'providing more quasi judicial review' order but the ACLU, etc. saw through this in less than 15 minutes.
Sort of like when the Taliban trys to spin a loss and Al Q calls them out on it.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
12/22/2010 14:33 Comments ||
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What happened to that executive order Obumbles signed right after taking the oath? The one about closing GITMO within a year.
#5
Now, now. He said he would close it within one year of taking office.
We didn't ask what office, so it's all flyover country's fault. Or Bush's, 'cause he opened it up in the first place and put Obummer in this difficult position.
#3
Ellison got 67% of the vote when running for reelection in 2010.
The MN 5th district. Mainly urban, white, leftist, clueless.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
12/22/2010 10:31 Comments ||
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...Goes without saying that if Rep. Ellison and his ilk were actually in charge and thought they could get away with it, they'd make Tail Gunner Joe look like Captain Kangaroo.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
12/22/2010 11:27 Comments ||
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Not all Muslims are terrorists. Every terrorist we've caught, and quite a few we haven't, have ALL been Muslims, however. We won't find any terrorists looking among the Amish. Ellison can go chase basketballs on the Interstate.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
12/22/2010 18:42 Comments ||
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"Ellison can go chase basketballs on the Interstate."
I'd rather he chased 18-wheelers on the interstate, OP.
From the front.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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Ellison can go chase basketballs on the Interstate. He better stay away from the Ohio Turnpike, or Mahmoud might shoot him.
* WAFF > {AlterNet] UNITED STATES OF FEAR: RIGHT-WING US LAW-MAKERS WILL USE ABSURD TERRORISM CONPIRACY THEORIES TO CURB YOUR FREEDOMS | REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF INCOMING US CONGRESS LOOKING FOR TERRORISM IN EVER MORE STARTLING PLACES.
Given nowadays how many US Govt. Politicos believe the definition of REPRESENTATIVE/
ELECTORAL DEMOCRACY = HIDING EVERYTHING OR MOST OF EVERYTHING FROM EVERYBODY [Voters, US Citizens-Residents, Law] ALL THE TIME, e.g. IN THE NAME OF POL CREDIBILITY + NATIONAL SECURITY, NOT EVERY "CONSPIRACY THEORY" IS WRONG.
This is not a slip of the tongue. He does not mention Islam or Muslim even once in the article.
"The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens -- raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born," he said.
In the last 24 months, Holder said, 126 people have been indicted on terrorist-related charges, Fifty of those people are American citizens.
"I think that what is most alarming to me is the totality of what we see, the attorney general said. "Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do."
Holder says many of these converts to al Qaeda have something in common: a link to radical cleric Anwar Al Awlaki, an American citizen himself.
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...You know, if I were a paranoid type, I'd think about the number of comments that have been made about us being able to 'take a hit', and wonder if the Leadership knows something is going to happen...
Just sayin'.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
12/22/2010 11:29 Comments ||
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What pisses me off with this is that we are going to live out our big fear. We tried to keep the Islamic movement out of the US, but the PC police said it was not Islam, just some bad men that derailed it. Well, they were wrong and they bet our future on their rose colored glasses. Now Islam is rooted, like cancer in our society, thanks to all the types that said Islam is not bad, just some of them. It was all wrong, ALL of islam is bad, it has always been bad. Some will say, I know some muslims and they are against the terrorists. Well, ladies and gentlemen, under Islam, they would get the ax. There is no room for moderates in Islam, only radicals in islam. Before too long we will get to experience the car burnings and bombings of Europe, we are only a few years behind. As much as I think Holder is a wimp, we have been traveling down this road for 20 years and now Holder is just stating the obvious. He is afraid America will lose a city or or worse on his watch and be the patsy for the downfall of America in the worlds history books. He has every right to be afraid! I only wih we had men and women in washington as brave and bold as the soldiers serving them...
Rant/off
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
12/22/2010 13:15 Comments ||
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AMEN! 49Pan
Posted by: Water Modem ||
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Oregon raised its income tax on the richest 2% of its residents last year to fix its budget hole, but now the state treasury admits it collected nearly one-third less revenue than the bean counters projected. ...
In 2009 the state legislature raised the tax rate to 10.8% on joint-filer income of between $250,000 and $500,000, and to 11% on income above $500,000. Only New York City's rate is higher. Oregon's liberal voters ratified the tax increase on individuals and another on businesses in January of this year, no doubt feeling good about their "shared sacrifice."
Congratulations. Instead of $180 million collected last year from the new tax, the state received $130 million. ...
One reason revenues are so low is that about one-quarter of the rich tax filers seem to have gone missing. The state expected 38,000 Oregonians to pay the higher tax, but only 28,000 did. Funny how that always happens. These numbers are in line with a Cascade Policy Institute study, based on interstate migration patterns, predicting that the tax surcharge would lead to 80,000 fewer wealthy tax filers in Oregon over the next decade. ... Don't you hate that law of unintended consequences?
The biggest loss of revenues came from capital gains receipts. The new 11% top tax rate applies to stock and asset sales, which means that Oregonians now pay virtually the highest capital gains tax in North America. Instead of $3.5 billion of capital gains in 2009, there was only $2 billion to tax--43% less. Successful entrepreneurs like Nike owner Phil Knight don't get rich by being fools with their money. They don't sell tens of millions of dollars of assets when capital gains taxes go up. ... Also remember, people who have that kind of wealth can very easily pay someone to move it elsewhere.
All of this is an instant replay of what happened in Maryland in 2008 when the legislature in Annapolis instituted a millionaire tax. There roughly one-third of the state's millionaire households vanished from the tax rolls after rates went up.
If Salem officials want to find where the millionaires went, they might start the search in Texas, the state that leads the nation in job creation--and has a top income and capital gains tax rate 11 percentage points lower than Oregon's. Which also explains why Texas is gaining population and spurring job growth and the liberal states are losing them.
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Some high earners may have left Oregon but I think it also likely that many high $ earners (especially the kind that make it on cap gains) simply didn't earn as much in 2009 as they did in 2008.
Posted by: lord garth ||
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There ain't no pity in a donkey led city
Posted by: Bill Griling5080 ||
12/22/2010 16:41 Comments ||
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What part of thou shall not covet and thou shall not steal didn't they understand?
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"What part of thou shall not covet and thou shall not steal didn't they understand?"
All of it.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
12/22/2010 18:20 Comments ||
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It's the time of year for all of us to remember the one Biblical verse honored everywhere, by everyone, for all times, regardless of belief: And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. Luke 2:1, KJV
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Swamp Blondie: the Donks and others tried to get a limited income tax passed this past November; the tax would have been limited in scope very similiar to that in Oregon; it went down in flames, something like 76% rejected ( or some crazy lopsided figure; it was huge)
wonder if the WA state donks will see what is happening in Oregon and re-consider. (OK stupid question, can i withdraw it please?)
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Right USN. I'm pretty sure even the densest person realized that it would be for the over $200K only until the Donk Legislature can change it to include everyone.
Just as every few years a petition is passed to cap tax increases to 6% and as soon as they can the Legislature removes the cap so they can raise taxes even more.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Oregon raised its income tax on the richest 2% of its residents last year to fix its budget hole, but now the state treasury admits it collected nearly one-third less revenue than the bean counters projected. ...
