Posted on 09/04/2014 8:07:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
In spite of a manufacturing ISM in positive territory for 15 consecutive months, a Gallup Survey shows Economic Confidence at -16, Economic Outlook at -18.
Gallup's Economic Confidence Index is the average of two components: how Americans view current economic conditions and their perception of whether the economy is getting better or worse. In August, 20% said the economy is "excellent" or "good," while 34% said it is poor. This resulted in a current conditions index score of -14, the same current conditions score found for five consecutive months.Gallup Economic Confidence and Current Conditions
Economic outlook has varied a bit more over the past six months, ranging from -14 to -19, although still a much narrower range than in previous years. In August, 38% of Americans said the economy is getting better, while 56% said the economy is getting worse. This resulted in an economic outlook score of -18, similar to the -19 in July.
The economy is is getting better for some, but more say it's getting worse. In aggregate, people do not buy this recovery talk. Should they?
‘Most Americans Think Things Are Getting Worse’
That is because by every legitimate measure, they are getting worse!
Obama Legacy Death Spiral Ping...
I don’t think things are getting worse but not improving all that well either and I would cite commercial real-estate as proof of that. For sure if employment were musical chairs, there are fewer chairs to go around and for those without, if they are not trying to build their own chair, their outlook is probably pretty bleak.
The majority of 109 million takers think the economy is just fine.
But most Americans will continue re-electing the same clowns and vote for politicans that promise them “free” things. The cycle will continue until this unsustainable system collapses under its own weight and we are visited by great economic hardship.
Right, as long as they’re taken care of. When the music stops its going to get real ugly, and fast.
BTW, the nominal national debt is currently at $17.7 TRILLION, and rising rapidly. The die is cast.
The times now remind me of Fall of 1968.... the President had ‘checked out’ after giving away the store with all sorts of programs like “War on Poverty”, blacks rioting everywhere throughout the country the past couple of years, sex and morality going down the tubes, drug use everywhere, the world falling apart all around (Soviets in Cuba armed to the teeth) and the U.S. looking like losers militarily in Vietnam because the President and RATs were not fighting “to win” the war.
What’s worse now is that our current President is a POS Trojan Horse allowing hordes of anti-Americans to come in to this country illegally and unopposed by his own will.
It’s not just by ‘measures’... it doesn’t feel like the country we loved.
That's when the pitchforks come out, along with tar, feathers and ROPES!
Life as a politician won't be so sweet.
Then there are those of us who KNOW things are getting worse.
Mexico calls the USA the other Mexico Obama&CO feel the pride.
Let’s see. A multinational corporation sells its products in the US, but only employs a minimal number of clerical staff in America, all of whom are green card workers. And it pays no US taxes other than sales taxes.
However, this multinational corporation is having a good year. Does this in any way improve the economy of the United States?
Wait until the Fed stops propping the market up. That IS going to be ugly.
Most Americans are correct.
One reason is that ALL new jobs are going to illegal aliens.
If your are ‘American’—things ARE getting worse.
Who cares Wayne..
Look at the breaking news sidebar on this site...
It’s filled with nothing but foreign news, posted by the same people over and over...
While America here at home implodes...
Some of my fellow Americans are finally waking up!
And they’ll blame it on George Bush and Republicans and vote for Progressives, en masse, because Progressives are brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart geniuses.
(Just like them.)
IMHO
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