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Americans have lost faith in pretty much everything
Market Watch ^ | 14 June 2016

Posted on 06/15/2016 8:03:18 AM PDT by Lorianne

The people of the United States have pretty much had it with the country’s major institutions, as faith in everything from the banks and newspapers to organized religion and TV news has taken a big hit in recent years, according to a recent Gallup poll.

As Gallup’s Jim Norman explains: “Americans clearly lack confidence in the institutions that affect their daily lives: the schools responsible for educating the nation’s children; the houses of worship that are expected to provide spiritual guidance; the banks that are supposed to protect Americans’ earnings; the U.S. Congress elected to represent the nation’s interests; and the news media that claims it exists to keep them informed.”

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To: dfwgator

I’ve been saying for more than a decade that Dubya set us back 25 years in properly addressing the problem of Islam. Then there’s the whole spending like a drunken sailor thing, and the unwillingness to hit back on attacks from the Left.


21 posted on 06/15/2016 8:18:26 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Then we learn that the Bushes and Clintons have been playing on the same team for years.


22 posted on 06/15/2016 8:19:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lorianne

I would say until the last six months, people of America were pretty depressed....wouldn’t you be if the government had their foot on the back of your neck day and night?

But something is happening....people are really awake, and more are waking up...we are now seeing we have been so badly lied to by the media twits; GOPe; RINOs; ‘sewer city’; everybody...and it’s our fault, we have been so busy trying to make our life a little easier, we haven’t been paying attention to the people we RE ELECT into office, well that is all about to end...there have been a few elections in different States and the old has beens are getting thrown out on their butts into the Streets...Way To Go Americans, now keep it up!!!

We are talking again, we are saying what we feel again, to our friends, neighbors, families...yep, there is no more of the P.C. crap being thrown around...and we are finding out how bad Ms. Butcher of Benghazi really is, all the money from foreign countries that she has been taking to use against our Great Nation, and then there is Hussein, who is a total ‘pussy boy’ the only thing lacking with him is his ‘girly ringlets’...

Yep, America is getting happier, we are getting a strong backbone again, and we are finding some balls and come November, we are going to have a leader named Donald J. Trump who will bring our Country back to us!!!


23 posted on 06/15/2016 8:21:45 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: Lorianne

I don’t need the government or societal instituitions to make me feel good. Only weak people do. I am strong and feel great! So should you!


24 posted on 06/15/2016 8:22:27 AM PDT by Eternal_Bear
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To: Lorianne
What has all these institutions have done for us. Allowed ISIS to run freely in America to kill, wages that sunk to a point that millions are even losing their homes, health care that is non existent and what is will cost you your entire savings, etc etc etc.
What the hell, the communists liberals still love their King and Queen. King Obama and Hillary the Queen fool. America has really taken a crap and they just roll along. Bad!!!!!

Trump for President.

25 posted on 06/15/2016 8:22:58 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Lorianne

God has nothing to do with any of this crap.

Talk to him every day. He misses you so much.

Your relationship with him does not rely on anything but what is in your heart. He sees that and no one else can.

Don’t let the material world get in between.

I know how hard it is to do this. We are loving people and the world does have evil elements but keep talking to HIM!


26 posted on 06/15/2016 8:26:51 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: dfwgator

Bush did not fight. That’s why Trump is the nominee today.
We can turn.


27 posted on 06/15/2016 8:29:31 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: right way right

We’ll see, if Trump doesn’t win, then I’m pretty much out of here.


28 posted on 06/15/2016 8:31:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lorianne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIcESt9eYRk


29 posted on 06/15/2016 8:31:50 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Lorianne

The deconstructors have succeeded!

Time to deconstruct them.


30 posted on 06/15/2016 9:03:43 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: HarleyLady27
people of America were pretty depressed

Consider adding the following declines during Obama's tyranny.

More reasons for American's to feel depressed: open borders, releases of immigrant invaders, releases of terrorists, releases of felons, blows to religious freedom, nationwide computer penetrations, traitors and spies,sales of body parts, corruption in finance industry, suppression of US banks,continued unemployment, a socialist pope, contempt for marriage, corruption of holy matrimony, Americans in foreign prisons, black lives matter more, contempt for law enforcement, the Clinton Foundation, IRS targeting of conservatives, NSA surveillance, contempt for America's allies, open borders, immigrant invasions, IRAN, speed cameras, the nuke deal, and last but not least Traitor Romney.

Add your items.

31 posted on 06/15/2016 9:24:34 AM PDT by Rapscallion (You are correct. It IS a conspiracy, not a bad dream.)
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To: Red Badger

That’s right, Jesus Christ works every time He is tried, which is not enough in the USA.


32 posted on 06/15/2016 9:27:17 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Santorum and Paul Nehlen 2016)
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To: FreedomPoster

GWB had a chance, not a strong one though, to turn things around, and he did not.


33 posted on 06/15/2016 9:28:50 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Santorum and Paul Nehlen 2016)
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To: Lorianne

Yes, and there’s a word for it - obamaism.


34 posted on 06/15/2016 10:14:45 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Neoliberalnot

Nope.


35 posted on 06/15/2016 10:57:36 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: henkster

The elites and bureaucracy are above the law and the people are fed up with the double standard. But the elites and bureaucracy are not going to just hand over their special class status it will have to be ripped from them and taken with force eventually.

Should Trump win some bureaucrats and elites that break the law are going to have to be prosecuted and jailed to bring any change in behavior.


36 posted on 06/15/2016 11:32:56 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: Rapscallion

The dim party shredding the Constitution, their media cheering them on and the Repubs standing by watching it happen. We have no representation in DC and are targets of a whole pile of weaponized federal agencies.


37 posted on 06/15/2016 11:38:00 AM PDT by Texas resident (Obama's enemies are my friends)
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To: Lorianne

Obamanation


38 posted on 06/15/2016 12:24:56 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Theodore R.

And when the Republicans misplaced their brains and ran a half-Dem version of him, that was the ballgame.


39 posted on 06/18/2016 11:46:03 PM PDT by Laser_Ray (Another nifty idea)
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