has entered his second week of his 2012 re-election campaign with afterburners blazing..
Posted on 04/21/2011 8:14:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans are more pessimistic about the U.S. economic outlook than they have been since the start of the Obama administration and most believe the United States is on the wrong track, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released on Thursday.
The number of Americans who think the economy is getting worse jumped 13 percentage points in just one month, to 39 percent, the poll suggested.
Just 23 percent said they thought the economy was improving, down 3 percentage points from the previous month.
Seventy percent of respondents said the country was heading in the wrong direction and most think neither President Barack Obama nor Congressional Republicans share their priorities for the country, the poll showed.
The dour mood is dragging down performance ratings for President Barack Obama and both parties in Congress with the 2012 election season already underway, the poll found.
Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, while 75 percent said they disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.
While Washington is consumed with debate over deficit-reduction proposals, Americans seemed uncertain about the impact of cutting the deficit on the U.S. economy.
Some 29 percent of those polled said cutting the deficit would create more jobs, while 29 percent said deficit-cutting would cost jobs and 27 percent said it would have no effect on the employment outlook.
The poll found considerable support for Obama's proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy -- 72 percent of respondents approved of that idea as a way to address the deficit.
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ping
wow
Just 23 percent said they thought the economy was improving, down 3 percentage points from the previous month.
Just 23 percent of monosyllabic democratic mouthbreathers said they thought the economy was improving, down 3 percentage points from the previous month. (THERE FIXED IT)
Just 23 percent said they thought the economy was improving, down 3 percentage points from the previous month.
Just 23 percent of monosyllabic democratic mouthbreathers said they thought the economy was improving, down 3 percentage points from the previous month. (THERE FIXED IT)
Mission accomplished!
Obama is doing precisely what he planned to do.
But next year the NYT at this very same month will probably headline Obama’s “1% unemployment” rate just to get him re-elected. This is nothing..wait til next year when the MSM lies for the O.
72% are in favor of more taxes on the “rich”
Oh boy.
Hooks and Chains by 10 Pound Test
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
We need to raise taxes on the ‘rats and lower them for the rest of us.
Nearly have the federal budget these days is borrowed/printed money. Our “economy” is currently an illusion due to massive government intervention via false spending.
We can't get off the heroin of deficit spending without major pain. The liberals have nurtured and grown a dependent class of people in the US over the last 80 or so years. Many of these people think they are entitled to what they didn't earn and are unprepared to fend for themselves short of rioting and looting.
The thing is, if we don't cut all this spending back we will all go over the economic cliff to economic ruin together. The entitled class is going to be a loser either way so there's no real incentive for them not to take everyone with them if we let them.
New York Slimes and SeeBS, no wonder the numbers work for the resident.
And on top of this bad news, we’re still supposed to believe Obama has a chance at re-election; I don’t think so.
In other words Americans are as confused as ever.
This tracks the 74% disapproving of Congress.
Class warfare has always worked for the Democrats. They played that card under their first leader, Jefferson, and have never stopped.
Our country is in much worse shape than most folks realize.
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.” — Author Unknown
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