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 On the Wrong TrackPosted on May 12, 2008
According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 82 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. The same survey recorded a record-low approval rating for President Bush. Sixty-two percent of Republicans, a group that still favors the president, take a negative view of the country’s direction.
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By purplewolf, May 14, 2008 at 6:43 pm #
CY, I think that if 49% do not approve, the income should be reduced by 49 %, and so on down to 1% approval rating of an income of 51% of their former income. Their incomes are to high as it is and even if they are reduced by 49 % or less it should not really hurt them at all. By reducing their incomes by 1 or 2% this is of no consequence to them. After all they are public servants not kings or Gods. They deserve exactly what the American working/retired public gets from the business world when working a public service job-minimum wage, no overtime pay, no medical insurance, no paid breaks, no vacation pay. You get the idea. They need to be brought back down to reality of the working class of people they are supposed to represent. As it stands now they are so rich and out of touch with what the average working and retired person had to try to survive on they cannot comprehend what it is really like. It is time for a reality check for all those who claim to represent us in politics. Not many would apply if this were the case, which proves they are not there for the public, but rather themselves and their thieving friends.
Report thisBy purplewolf, May 14, 2008 at 6:30 pm #
Bush cheated in Ohio and he knows it. In one district, 3 times more votes were counted than registered voters in that same district. That equals cheating, again, by the potted prez in this election as well as 2000. Also in Ohio, some of the voting machines turned votes for Kerry into end result votes for Bush, proven fact, and other voting machines would trip more votes toward Bush than originally selected by the public and Bush knew this also. If he were the so called up-standing Christian, God selected leader he claims to be, he would have stood down already, as he knew he lied this time too. Just like he lied when he knew the info for the Iraq illegal war was information 12 years old from his fathers term in office and not in anyway current or truthful.
Also, that picture of his winning in 2004 in the above article. His twins may claim that the hand sign is the Texas steer, but going back through out history it was a sign acknowledging the Devil. Something that this prez seems to have more in common with that he claims. Actions and deeds speak louder than the oral word by this con man.
Report thisBy purplewolf, May 14, 2008 at 6:17 pm #
Saw this on a t-shirt once: Beware of stupid people in large groups!
Report thisBy hippy pam, May 14, 2008 at 9:17 am #
Where do I sign the petition?You have my support for this…How does the American Public make this mandatory?Can we roll this over to large corporations?And start the salaries at a median range….....
Report thisBy Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, May 13, 2008 at 5:36 pm #
It’s on the same track it was 8 years ago. Where was everyone then?
Well said, Anderson. But, this is the way it goes. Look at Burma. What happened in Myanmar is just fastmo to what happens to people all over the world as the result of the immoral, ruthless, unscrupulous leaders they have or get.
Bush has been a natural disaster in human form in the US. Repair the damage? If we do or can, we’ll be extremely lucky if some schmuck leader doesn’t take power and either ruin it again or entruncate our repair job.
Average, ordinary people all over the world don’t have a chance. The cards—and Bush is a real card—are stacked against us.
Take heart, though, Chris Hedges and his ilk, with their pseudo-intellectual pugilism and spewings will make things a lot better.
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, May 13, 2008 at 3:16 pm #
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ACTUALLY, it is not the “country” which is “on the wrong track” it is our disfunctional government, BUT I have a solution (which involves no spilled blood)
It is my “No Citizen Left Behind” initiative. It is very much like No Child Left Behind. The government as a whole would be evaluated in late June each year. If the majority of citizens are happy all government officials get a raise equivalent to the percentage of happy citizens over the tipping point of 51% In other words 61% satisfied 1% raise, 71% satisfied, 2% raise and so on. BUT the negative side of 50% also has consequences. only 49% satisfied 1% decrease in the previous years salary. 44% =2% decrease, 39% =3% decrease etc..Of course “cost of living increases would be discontinued. Just like Bush wants to do with teachers. Unsatisfied majorities 3 years running would result in a suspension of all “perks” like housing allowances, transportation allowances staff allowences etc.. Think that would get their attention?
merit pay, just like teachers. Why not?
Report thisBy bozhidar bob balkas, May 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm #
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i’m being told that US had waged ab. 170 wars/skirmishes/invasions. how many americans know ab. such reports? how many evaluate the report as true? and if so, how many evaluate that as ominous portents; presaging more warfare and not less?
Report thishow many amers evaluate bombings of hironaga as crime? how many believe it was USSR which bombed the two japanese cities?
how many amers believe they had a democracy? how many now believe it is now a plutocracy? and that they always had a plutocratic rule?
how else to explain slavery and civil war? half of america waged war to abolish slavery and to reunite the country.
and why weren’t educators allowed to teach amers the history? instead of history written by representatives of the plutocrats?
sorry folks, u’v lost nothing, since u never had a democracy but a tyrrany; especially against natives and blacks. thank u.
By Fadel Abdallah, May 13, 2008 at 11:37 am #
A Little Evil Is Too Much!
Being pessimistic after all my disappointments with the failings of democracy, I am not about to celebrate that 79% of Americans disapprove of G. Bush. But I am lamenting that there are still 31% deaf, blind and dumb Americans who approve of this great disaster called Bush. Don’t underestimate 31% of the misguided, for they are capable of undoing the good that 79% might want to do. I do believe that a little evil is too much!
Report thisBy DennisD, May 13, 2008 at 10:11 am #
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Was this poll taken at his daughters wedding? That might explain the results.
Report thisBy hippy pam, May 13, 2008 at 9:41 am #
Why Don’t we THROW THEM ALL OUT.Take away ALL PERKS.
Report thisSTRIP THEM OF ALL THEY HAVE RECEIVED-EVERYTHING-and
MAYBE EVEN MAKE THEM PAY BACK EVERYTHING THEY STOLE??
We-The People-NEED TO TAKE BACK OUR GOVERNMENT-SET UP NEW LAWS/RULES-CUZ WHAT THIS HAS “evolved”[bad choice of a word] IN TO IS A TRAVESTY AND A REAL JOKE
By Thomas Billis, May 12, 2008 at 10:55 pm #
The people who still support this guy should be forced to have an identifying mark that the rest of us can see.These are dangerous people.They should not be given metal spoons or knives out of fear of the harm they may do to themselves or others.Matter of fact they should only be allowed to eat where crayons and something to draw on are provided.If they still support the monkey they must be animal lovers.
Report thisBy QuyTran, May 12, 2008 at 9:26 pm #
Don’t worry about this guy. Just clean up our toilet when he’s gone !
Report thisBy Allen Wood, May 12, 2008 at 7:33 pm #
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Considering the fact that Georgie knew that there were no WMD’s in Iraq, and he decided to waste a tremendous amount of US money and lives, I would consider him a thief and a traitor. What a sorry excuse for a human, let alone for a President of this ONCE GREAT country. I hope he moves to the ranch he bought in Paraguay ASAP because I don’t ever want so see even a photo of his face from this day forward. He, and his whole family are a disgrace to this country. Good Riddance You Piece Of Trash.
Report thisBy Anna-Marina, May 12, 2008 at 6:09 pm #
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Bush was elected by Americans in 2004!
Report thisThe shadow army of mercenaries (Blackwater anybody?) and the state sponsored snooping had already converted the Land of Free into the Land of Fools. The GOP will never accept the horrific truth that their “goal justifies means” had destroyed the Beacon of Democracy and converted it into the oily oligarchy of semi-ignoramuses with the feeble moral fiber. Who needs a Cold War when Bush and Baker III are at hand?
By Jonas South, May 12, 2008 at 5:47 pm #
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With these poll numbers, and with adroit management, Obama has a historic opportunity to transform this country into a caring, respectful and respected country again.
But he cannot do it alone; we must do our part. As a start, I am asking my fellow citizens to draw up a list of things Bush did and thereby needs undoing. We are not experts but some of us may see things that a herd of policy wonks (not to mention congressional Democrats) can’t see. Here are some of my wishes:
(1) Dick Cheney can pick up the phone and, through a ‘red phone’ network he established after 9/11, tell the heads of Fortune 100 companies what he wants done. This link is detrimental to our democracy, and should be reviewed.
(2) The Pentagon let stand a Bush rule that seems to imply that the secretary of defense must be in the loop before jets can be scrambled to respond to threats involving a civilian airliner. This rule confused and delayed our 9/11 military responders. It should be reviewed.
(3) Federal officials interfered with and stopped the efforts of New York state officials who wanted to rein in the loan shark practices of sub-prime lenders, WAY BEFORE the current global financial crisis. Sixties era liberals should re-examine their bias against states rights, which have been squashed again and again by Bush.
Have a pet peeve? Send them to Obama, the next president of these United States.
Report thisBy grousefeather, May 12, 2008 at 5:05 pm #
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Gee, the majority of republicans think the country is headed in the wrong direction? Let’s re-phrase that a little so it reads: republican governing principles, economic philosophy, and political dogma, proven once and for all to be defective, counter-democratic, and totally adverse to building a better society and a more peaceful world.
Report thisBy G.Anderson, May 12, 2008 at 3:30 pm #
Someday, Mr. Bush will just walk away from what he’s done, no consequences, no concern, no nightmares.
The rest of us will be left to pick up the pieces, and for many argue about just how bad it all is.
There will be true believers that will justify Mr. Bush’s actions, in office by saying that someday he will be understood as a great leader.
We will be left with at least 40 years of trying to patch things up, and remove the claws of the neo cons and corporate crooks from our lives and our economic system, a struggle that will be dificult.
Just because Mr. Bush leaves don’t expect them to restore our freedoms and our prosperity, because they’ve made a lot of money on our misfortune and won’t give that up easily.
Maybe every so often we need a G.W. Hoover to come along, and wake us up, it only took almost 8 years for the people to come to understand the nature of Bush’s thievery, some warned right from the beginning. To bad they weren’t heard.
Report thisBy Aegrus, May 12, 2008 at 3:03 pm #
I’m tired of seeing his face, and hearing his excuses. When he leaves office in January, I will be so ecstatic that my entire body might begin to glow with a white-hot flame of joy. Good bye, King George!
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