Poll finds Americans angry about pretty much everything

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[Sub-Driver]

Poll finds Americans angry about pretty much everything

Daily Caller

– 36 mins ago

No wonder David Bowie was afraid of Americans.

A new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll finds that Americans are angry about…pretty much everything. From President Obama to congressional Republicans to even God (who has a 33 percent approval rating), everyone needs to watch out for an angry mob coming their way.

Unemployment is at 9.1 percent, gas and grocery prices are skyrocketing, the housing market is in the dumps, and people aren’t happy. Three quarters of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, and 81 percent say the job market is not where it needs to be. Half of respondents don’t think Obama has a plan to balance the budget, and 58 percent think Republicans aren’t doing their part to balance the budget either.

The poll finds that Americans are being affected by their anger in other parts of life as well. Fifty-six percent are so angry that they can’t even sleep and 13 percent say the anxiety has affected their sex life.

[MrEdd]

Thank you Maynard Keynes.

Now go learn real economics and try again.

[Salamander]

A friend of mine in Philly is an anxiety/panic disorder counselor.

She told me that Obama’s nomination caused a huge spike in phone calls.

His election wound up making her a lot of money from people who were having emotional meltdowns.

I haven’t talked to her in quite a while [she’s *always* in a counseling session with someone] so he’s possibly made her a millionaire, by now.

We all see the financial and constitutional damage he’s done but what’s the total toll on people’s general mental health?

Inestimable.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Translation: Newsweak says Americans are RACIST.

[DesertRhino]

David Bowie is afraid of us?

[WKUHilltopper]

Here’s some CHANGE you can actually embrace. Next time some idiot running for president starts puking out the word “change” maybe they’ll actually ask “What do you mean??”

[sportutegrl]

There is one thing that makes me really angry. When I see someone planning to do something that I know will result in disaster, yet they think it is the right thing to do and no matter what you say, they are dead set on doing it. This is how I feel about Obamacare, the Stimulus, Tarp, the Auto Bailouts, etc.

We got together and begged and screamed and protested and hollered our lungs out that this stuff wouldn't work, and to please stop, and don't pass Obamacare, but Obama and the Congress didn't listen and passed it anyway. Now everything we knew would happen has happened. Hell yes, I am angry. Justifiably angry.

[momtothree]

“... is an anxiety/panic disorder counselor”

I have several neighbors who experienced sleep problems and one man had some issues with his ulcer (required hospitalization). It isn’t a weakness in the person. Both people that I know are intelligent, strong men but fear what the economy is doing to their wife/kids and the country. Unfortunately, their bodies take the toll. This article infuriates me. It is ridiculing the fact that people “object” and “respond” to economics, social engineering, less freedoms, etc... Are people mad? Da#n right they are mad. I hope they bring this emotion to the voting booths.

[Cvengr]

...and 13 percent say the anxiety has affected their sex life.

First numbers I've seen which might be consistent with that homosexuality thing.

[blueunicorn6]

“Three qarters of Americans think the country is on the wrong track” - yeah, but watch who they vote for for President.

[death2tyrants]

Maybe the entire point of this article was to imply that 0bama has a higher approval rating than God

Well, this would be the first time Yahoo News differenciated between the two.

[andy58-in-nh]

The GOP is totally useless. They are the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.

I am very much afraid that you are correct about that.Although if you are right, that would make Obama Meadowlark Lemon.

[dfwgator]

Well how many of the Globetrotters would have made it in the NBA?

[andy58-in-nh]

Well how many of the Globetrotters would have made it in the NBA?

If the NBA changed the rules the way the media changed them for Obama - they would have all made it.

[EBH]

I think the GOP has made some attempts, but overall still got the smackdown.

People are realizing we have no representation in DC. TEA party folks realized that on this day...

When they paraded out into the protesters, I'm am sorry...that is the day we should have had our first act of civil disobedience. We should have locked the chamber doors behind them. We should have blocked their access back into the buildings. Instead...we stood around in awe and watched them carry out this grotesque victory lap in front of We the People.

People are now ...57%...coming to realize we're in a heap of trouble.

The folks waking up now may not know ...how they got us here or why it doesn't work. That is a dangerous situation to be in. As it means they will follow any pied-piper who doesn't look like the old pied-pipers.

[Salamander]

Hubby is retired and his pension/SS is supplemented by our home business.

Since <0 got in, we’re struggling mightily to stay afloat.

I’m sure it didn’t help hubby that he wound up needing a 3x bypass and my own ‘issues’ have gone over the top.
[I try to not mention them because he’s already a type-a personality who obsesses over ensuring the welfare of myself and our dogs]

I feel comfortable saying that, for *some*, getting the joker out of the WH has literally become a matter of life and death.

We’re probably nowhere near as strapped as those most adversely affected by <0’s wrack and ruin policies.

I’ve heard that suicide hotlines are overloaded, as well.

Yeah...hope and change.

[momtothree]

All I can say is that the media would be on this every night if it was Bush or another Republican. Nary a word from them is mentioned. No talks about increases in suicides, depression, homelessness, food kitchen members going up... the list is endless. What I fear is this: it is only the beginning.

[Arrowhead1952]

My doctor told me that he has seen an increase in the request for sleeping pills.

I was talking to a lady across the street the other day. She is a nurse who works for a psychiatrist and said his workload has increased dramatically from people coming in with stress.

[momtothree]

“... his workload has increased dramatically from people coming in with stress”.

Doesn’t surprise me one bit. I am not one to just say “suck it up, toughen up” either. People fear these times and it completely makes sense to me. How many people lost 50% of their savings (or more) and can’t send their child to college? How many are this close or have lost their home? How many have lost their job, maybe one they had for 25 years? How many are figuring out with paper/pen how to fill the gas tank AND put food in the fridge? Plus, there are the “what ifs”... if it is this bad now, what will we do IF it gets worse? How bad can it get? No wonder people are stressed out to the max.

[Arrowhead1952]

We are lucky to have our home paid off, paid cash for my pickup, still have a couple of payments on the wife's car and got the daughter through college on mostly scholarships. After the last mortgage payment, it was like a big pay raise. We pay all credit cards off every month. I just hope the minions in DC don't go after my Roth and other retirement accounts.

[momtothree]

“... I just hope the minions in DC don’t go after my Roth and other retirement accounts”.

See... there is a worry. I’m not saying you need sleeping pills but I am saying that people wonder what the government will do/take/restrict next? I personally don’t remember a time that people woke up each day and thought, “what am I expected to pay more for today?” After 9/11, I woke up each morning with the thought “did something blow up today?” Today, I wake up thinking “how closer are we to the poor house?”