Health Care

[BJean 16]

She may read them but that doesn't mean that she understands them. I found a couple more items in that post that she wouldn't agree with if you separated them from the PEW poll.

[tdslf1 0]

Don't you just love it when people cherry pick their answers? On the same note those same people who distrust their government are in a video on you tube regarding the tea baggers. I think the people who made it are called media progress or something but take a look at some of those videos. Scary, and I fear big percentage, believe this stuff retard Palin and others are spouting. It is ignorance to the highest degree that in one video, everyone of the people stated that they recieved NO tax cut or break. Every single one of them had NO clue of a tax cut. And every one of them said they got their news from the comedy channel, Fake News. Everyone of them, unbelievable. And yet, according to polls, these people are supposed to be educated and rich? Huh, where did the ignorant curveball come from cause these people are real ignorant.........My mom always said the more you know the better you do. Apparently not.

Edited April 23, 2010 by tdslf1

[BJean 16]

I think the people at the forefront making up the stuff that the tea baggers say are the wealthy well-educated folks. The followers, the real baggers themselves, are just regular folks, like you and me - but without a brain.

[pattygreen 5]

Patty Do you even read these articles that are suppose to support your position?

"Americans' trust in government and its institutions has plummeted to a near-historic low, according to a sobering new survey by the Pew Research Center."

So if they are at a near historic low when was the historic low? Answer from the article: "But the trust numbers were even lower at the close of the George W. Bush administration, dipping below 20 percent." So technically they have risen since Obama took office.

"The proportion of Americans who say they are "angry" with the federal government has doubled since 2000, increasing from 10 percent to 20 percent."

What happened in 2000? Bush took office.

Once again, you can't have a conversation about Obama's administration without bringing up past administrations. I could care less about what happened under Bush. You can't change the past. This is today! The poll speaks for itself. You can be in denial if you want, but the facts are that more Americans do NOT trust the government. (almost 80%) If you want to continue to believe in them as your Saving power, go right ahead, but the majority of us know better. There are no gov. programs out there that are running financially stable.

[LeighaMason 19]

I know math isn't your strong suit but 20% is not a "majority"

[pattygreen 5]

I know math isn't your strong suit but 20% is not a "majority"

Are you for real?! I said 80%. 80% of Americans do NOT trust the government.

[LeighaMason 19]

I just re-read the article, I cant find where it says "80% of Americans do NOT trust the government." Can you point it out to me?

I saw this "Only 22 percent of Americans surveyed by Pew say they can trust government in Washington "almost always or most of the time" . But since you dont know what the other choices in the survey were you cant say that the other 80% "dont trust the government" because you dont know how they answered. I will look it up and get back to you on this.

[LeighaMason 19]

OK the choices were "JUST ABOUT ALWAYS" 3%, "MOST OF THE TIME" 19%, "ONLY SOMETIMES" 65% AND YOUR GROUP "NEVER" 11% AND "DIDNT KNOW" 2%.

Mar 11-21, 2010 3 19 65 11 2

January, 2007 3 28 63 5 1

February, 2006 4 30 59 6 1

Mid-September, 2005 3 28 63 4 2

Mid-March, 2004 4 32 59 4 1

February, 2000 5 35 56 3 1

May, 1999 3 28 62 5 2

February, 1999 4 27 64 4 1

November, 1998 4 22 61 11 2

February, 1998 5 29 61 4 1

Here are the historical rates and you can see they pretty much stay the same. First number is "just about always", 2nd number is "most of the times" 3rd number is "only sometimes", 4th number is "never" and 5th number is "dont know" (sorry but charts dont copy and paste well here) Here is the link if you want to look at it in original format.

http://people-press.org/reports/questionnaires/606.pdf

Edited April 23, 2010 by LeighaMason

[pattygreen 5]

Huffington Post: Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don't trust the federal government and have little faith it can solve America's ills, the survey found.

The findings illustrate the ominous situation President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party face as they struggle to maintain their comfortable congressional majorities in this fall's elections. Midterm prospects are typically tough for the party in power. Add a toxic environment like this and lots of incumbent Democrats could be out of work.

Released Sunday, the survey found that just 22 percent of those questioned say they can trust Washington almost always or most of the time and just 19 percent say they are basically content with it. Nearly half say the government negatively affects their daily lives, a sentiment that's grown over the past dozen years.

[pattygreen 5]

Gallop poll: Trust in Government

[pattygreen 5]

Now a new poll by ABC News gives us a better picture of public trust in the federal government. Most polls on this issue simply ask respondents if they trust the federal government to do what is right. The ABC News poll took a different tack: they asked separate questions about national security and domestic policy. The responses are markedly different. Sixty-eight percent said they trust the government to do what's right "when it comes to handling national security and the war on terrorism." Only 38 percent had the same trust "when it comes to handling social issues like the economy, health care, Social Security, and education." .author_pub2 a { float:right; margin: 10px 0 8px 8px; display:block; height: 142px; width: 110px; background: url(/people/pub_photos/samples.jpg) no-repeat -110px 0; } .author_pub2a a { float:right; margin: 10px 0 8px 8px; display:block; height: 142px; width: 110px; background: url(/people/pub_photos/samples.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; }

[pattygreen 5]

Majority lacks trust in government: Poll

Nearly 80 per cent of Americans say they can't trust Washington and they have little faith that the massive federal bureaucracy can solve the nation's ills, according to a survey from the Pew Research Centre that shows public confidence in the federal government at one of the lowest points in a half-century.

The poll released yesterday illustrates the ominous situation facing President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as they struggle to maintain their comfortable congressional majorities in this fall's elections.

Midterm prospects are typically tough for the party in power. Add a toxic environment like this and lots of incumbent Democrats could be out of work.

The survey found that just 22 per cent of those questioned say they can trust Washington almost always or most of the time and just 19 per cent say they are basically content with it. Nearly half say the government negatively effects their daily lives, a sentiment that's grown over the past dozen years.

[Cleo's Mom 257]

There are no gov. programs out there that are running financially stable.

As opposed to how well PRIVATE corporate america is handling things:

Bear Stearns

AIG

Lehman Brothers

Countrywide

Goldman Sachs

Bank of America

Citigroup

And like I posted before: NO POOR PERSON OR GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY OR PROGRAM CAUSED MY RETIREMENT INVESTMENT TO TANK - BUT CORPORATE AMERICA DID!!!

Edited April 23, 2010 by Cleo's Mom

[pattygreen 5]

An example of hoe our government wastes money.

WASHINGTON - Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.

The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained late Thursday by The Associated Press.

The memo says 31 of those probes occurred in the 2 1/2 years since the financial system teetered and nearly crashed.

[Cleo's Mom 257]

And as far as people not having trust in the government -

1) It's an easy target

2) People have no idea what the government does or provides

3) When some crisis (like the economic crisis) happens the first thing people say is: SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE.

Now, who do you think they mean? Walmart? McDonald's? No, they mean the government. They want the government to solve the problems but blame it when it does. It just shows how uninformed people are.