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Americans Losing Hope, Looking For Change
IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 2/9/2010 | Ed Carson

Posted on 02/09/2010 7:16:10 AM PST by Slyscribe

Voters are souring on the economy and the government’s remedies, according to February's IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index. It fell 4.1% to 46.8, matching December’s level and the weakest since July. “Persisting high unemployment and a wobbly stock market dampened January’s optimism,” said Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP, IBD’s polling partner. Readings below 50 signal pessimism. Confidence in federal economic politics dived 7% to 38.3, the lowest since President Obama took office.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2010polls; bhoeconomy; bhofascism; bhosocialism; democrats; economy; hopeychangey; hopiechangie; ibdtipp; independents; obama; polls

1 posted on 02/09/2010 7:16:12 AM PST by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe
How's all that hopenchange been workin' out for ya?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

2 posted on 02/09/2010 7:18:44 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Slyscribe; All
Hope y'all like that Change you rammed in to the Presidency, Ø-Merica...


3 posted on 02/09/2010 7:30:43 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: Slyscribe

Looking for change? I have a little left in my pocket and MaObama wants that, too!


4 posted on 02/09/2010 7:31:33 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Slyscribe

Have they tried lifting the sofa cushions?


5 posted on 02/09/2010 7:32:55 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (It is always tempting to impute unlikely virtues to the cute.)
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To: backhoe

My Grandfather was in America in 1929 (from Scotland) just before the depression hit. Immediately lost his job (he was a European plasterer imported for a period of time to make repairs in Boston to some ancient plaster work I think in Independence Hall or some historic building, and knew how to formulate the old time plaster with horse hair and stuff). After some horrendous months sleeping on park benches, etc.,relatives managed to scrape together his fare to bring him back home. He said there was free apples, free bread and free soup lines, etc., but you had to be a citizen. If you were a foreigner and spoke with a heavy brogue, no soup for you! If the worse happens again in this country, I’d like to suggest NO SOUP FOR OBAMA!


6 posted on 02/09/2010 7:38:51 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: Slyscribe

*cough*bushsfault*cough*


7 posted on 02/09/2010 7:42:36 AM PST by pabianice
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To: kiltie65
If the worse happens again in this country, I’d like to suggest NO SOUP FOR OBAMA!

Plus all of DC and the state capitols...

8 posted on 02/09/2010 7:49:01 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: Slyscribe
"Americans Losing Hope, Looking For Change"

Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain (Latter-Rain.com is a "Liberation Theology" commie-left website -etl)
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm

9 posted on 02/09/2010 8:06:53 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
Funny thing is happening, a hardcore lefty friend says Saturday night. I just don't believe those unemployment numbers, our government lies, Obama has taken it to a high art. When the people don't believe the propaganda anymore, it's really over. Aren't enough black faces and welfare white trash to reelect you, Barry
10 posted on 02/09/2010 8:39:14 AM PST by pburgh01
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To: Slyscribe
The Oboma bumper stickers have disappeared. Poof! Not one in sight anywhere.
So far, I haven't heard one good thing said about Oboma, either. Even the highway has "Oboma lies" spray painted on the cement guard rails.

This is a very good sign.

11 posted on 02/09/2010 8:54:31 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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