Posted on 05/15/2022 2:10:47 PM PDT by blam
A new survey from Pew reveals that inflation is the top concern Among Americans, while COVID-19 has fallen to last place.
70% of Americans polled between April 25 and May 1 said inflation was a “very big problem,” while 23% said it was a “moderately big problem.”
Meanwhile, just 19% said Covid was a “very big problem,” while 31% said it was a “small problem.” 12% said Covid was “not a problem at all.”
Oddly, Pew didn’t ask about the war in Ukraine.
When broken down by political party, inflation is the top national problem according to Republicans, while Democrats are mos concerned about gun violence, healthcare affordability and climate change.
“Democrats are nearly four times as likely as Republicans to rate climate change as a very big problem (63% vs. 16%),” Pew reports. “Republicans, by contrast, are far more likely than Democrats to view illegal immigration as a very big problem (65% vs. 19%).”
Caring less and less
Over time, Americans have been caring less about Covid, unemployment, and racism.
It will be interesting to see what’s bothering Americans most in the next Pew poll, which will undoubtedly include a question on Roe vs. Wade in light of the leaked Supreme Court decision. For now, however…
Covid is the last thing I’m concerned about.
I’d be inclined to rank racism high, but not in the way the mean....the left blaming everything racism probably IS the #1 problem in the US today.
No Ukraine ?
I figured so-called “Climate Change” would be in last place.
Who let that narrative get off course? Deadly pandemic news starting Monday.
Oddly, Pew didn’t ask about the war in Ukraine.
In general, more U.S. adults approve (45%) than disapprove (34%) of the Biden’s administration’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I went to the store just now....busy....I sense that many people “know” what’s going on...same thing at Costco yesterday.
only for the Zelensky boot-lickers on FR..
My co-worker complains about high prices but refuses to see the obvious connection to Dementia Joe policies.
I’ve cared less about covid sine January 2020.
“I sense that many people “know” what’s going on”
Do you mean that they look like they are prepping for SHTF? Did you notice what kinds of things they were buying? Thanks.
I’m very concerned about how COVID is impacting climate change in Ukraine!
No way.
Gotta be wrong.
How can the prog get drop boxes and firehose out mail-in ballots on a story about inflation?
Maybe if they mail out 100 million “test” kits...
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“I’m very concerned about how COVID is impacting climate change in Ukraine!”
While you’re at it, you should care about gas prices, and maybe the Spotted owl.
I cook spotted owl in my gas stove at least once a week. Tastes like chicken.
(I didn’t think a sarc tag was needed.)
COVID aka the flu. Meanwhile the lefties in Metuchen, Montclair, and South Orange have brought back mask mandates for schoolchildren in my state.
Regarding healthcare, patriots are reminded that, whatever the misguided (imo) Roberts Supreme Court wants everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress the specific power to establish a national healthcare program.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the congressional record, clarification by Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, if patriots worked with their respective state governments to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that alleged election-stealing Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional, Article I, Section 8-limited powers, then the following is predictable.
Each state would ultimately find a tsunami (imo) of new revenues to establish their own social spending programs, healthcare in this example, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of each state want.
In fact, Justice Louis Brandeis had introduced his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to promote the idea that a bunch of states independently working on the same problems, healthcare in this example, would establish a list of do's and don'ts regarding healthcare management.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy
And should the states ultimately find that there is a one-size-fits-all states solution to healthcare, then the states can appropriately amend the Constitution for new healthcare powers for Congress which Pelosi scandalously ignored securing from the states before she irresponsibly rammed Obamacare through the House.
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (Non-FR, 0:06 min.)
And to make all these changes permanent imo, patriots also need to work with their state lawmakers to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Corrections, Insights welcome.
Next, patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
Can one oppose a Russian invasion without garnering your opprobrium?
Those numbers on that chart for illegal immigration must be backwards, 19% R - 65% D?
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