Posted on 01/19/2014 9:39:26 AM PST by John Semmens
A recent Gallup poll revealed that the number one problem facing America, according to those polled, is “the government.” Twenty-one percent listed this as the worst problem facing the nation. Rounding out the top five problems were the economy (18%), unemployment (16%), healthcare (16%), and government debt (8%).
These poll results were dramatically out-of-sync with President Obama’s declaration that “income inequality” is this nation’s chief problem. Only 4% of the poll respondents agreed with his assessment.
As one poll respondent explained, “my work hours have been cut and my health insurance canceled. My wife has been unemployed for three years. We voted for Obama hoping he’d get us out of the Bush recession. As he promised, the government is doing more than ever, but things have just gotten worse.”
President Obama, though, denied government is to blame. “The vast majority of economic activity—manufacturing, distribution, jobs—is the responsibility of the private sector,” Obama said. “People pretty much get to do what they want. If they expect government to solve problems they’ve got to be willing to go where the government tells them and do as they’re told. Without this type of cooperation it isn’t fair that we are held accountable for people’s dissatisfaction with their lives.”
In related news, for the first time since the index of economic freedom has been kept by Heritage Foundation, the United States dropped out of the top ten. The US now ranks 12th, behind an array of countries that includes Chile, Mauritius, and the formerly Soviet Socialist Republic of Estonia.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2014/01/17/doj-refuses-to-press-charges-for-irs-abuses/
If you would get out of the way you stupid, f**king community organizer, things would sort themselves out.
Ronald Reagan: still right after all of these years.
I'm sure you already know that he doesn't want things to straighten out. He wants disorder, discontent, civil strife, and chaos. That's how Commie have always gotten their change.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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