Posted on 02/23/2010 5:07:34 PM PST by Kartographer
Good news, Americans are "downbeat about today. Upbeat about tomorrow," says the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll. "Americans feel battered by hard times, record home foreclosures, stubbornly high unemployment rates and war."
And yes, we are "fed up with Washington and convinced more than 3 to 1 that the nation is heading in the wrong direction," yet there's "confidence that there will be better times ahead, that the classic American dream endures and hasn't been extinguished. It's not even at its low ebb." Why? Because we're in denial!
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
How about because the success of America depends on the optimism and hard work of Americans. I’m not in denial. I think the country is heading in the wrong direction but it WILL turn around because people are paying attention and they care.
Cindie
Sure it will... after we get 'recycled'. I just hope the good guys make it through, and an America as we know it will be on the 'other side'. Our "leaders" have been leading us on a disaster course, and if they don't right the ship soon, a disaster is what we're certainly gonna get.
Two small, elite groups say, with their political propaganda, that we must vote for the candidates presented by them—preferably those most controllable by those favored constituents, or they’re going to hurt us in various ways after the next election.
Obama was the least of the choices of the government-supported plutocrats. That’s what you’ll see from now on: the elections of the least trusted candidates put forward by the elites to scare us.
We in the peasantry are far more conservative in every way than the few bipartisan constituents heard by politicians. We’ll survive, wait and rebuild, when you’re all through.
I call bullsh@t on this.
Every dollar an investor invests in a company (through stocks, bonds, whatever) is a dollar that company can use to develop new ideas, technologies, and products.
It is only gambling in the same vein that opening a business is considered gambling.
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