Poll finds most Americans are unhappy with government

Crabtownboy · Feb 11, 2010

It would not show on this board, but even Palin has taken a big hit recently with the American public. IMHO the people of American, taken as a whole, are much smarter than politicians of any party give them credit for ... maybe this has always been true.

Mark Twain said something like,

Suppose You Were an Idiot. And Suppose You Were a Member of Congress. But I Repeat Myself
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Two-thirds of Americans are "dissatisfied" or downright "angry" about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every tax dollar they send to Washington is "wasted."

Despite the disapproval of government, few Americans say they know much about the "tea party" movement, which emerged last year and attracted voters angry at a government they thought was spending recklessly and overstepping its constitutional powers. And the new poll shows that the political standing of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who was the keynote speaker last week at the first National Tea Party Convention, has deteriorated significantly.

The opening is clear: Public dissatisfaction with how Washington operates is at its highest level in Post-ABC polling in more than a decade -- since the months after the Republican-led government shutdown in 1996 -- and negative ratings of the two major parties hover near record highs.
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Salty · Feb 11, 2010

People in general love to complain - without really knowing anything about the facts.

For example, yesterday, I had a very nice conversation with an extreme liberal. Her too main points: 1) Everything Obama has done has been good. 2) everything Bush did was wrong. :BangHead:

I asked her what BO has accomplished. Her answer - He worked very hard to push the Obamacare thur (BTW - it has not Passed! :laugh I asked what else - she couldn't think of anything.

Her big problem with Bush was that he took away our constitutional rights (ie Patriot act) I asked her opinion about the time that Abe Lincoln suspended some Constitutional rights. She was not aware of Habeas Corpus
Of course Abortion came up. She gave the typical example that a 4 month old fetus could not survive on its own. I asked her how a full 9 month fully born baby could survive on it own for a full week, if left alone with no food or ect. I am still waiting on an answer!

Upon departing - we did agree that we disagree. I really think that she was surprised that as a conservative, I did not put her down. I trust that next time I pick her up in my cab, I might have a chance to share the Lord with her.

Salty

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