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I don't see this. The US, right now, is on a precarious ledge, and I'm a life-long American.
Yeah right, lol. I don't buy this one bit.
+Lucius Nite – you got it!
Leave someone living in crap long enough, they get used to the crap… Same thing.
So, what you're saying is that you guys are still in the HALF of people that think that the US is not running well.
You're now very much on the cusp of being in the minority – an inevitable minority that will continue to shrink as time goes on, and we continue to recover economically.
The January 2007 poll showed 57 percent of respondents saw the United States operating very well or fairly well versus 42 percent who saw the country running pretty badly or very badly.
The survey results turned negative in the next poll in April 2007 and grew worse through November 2008, when in a poll taken in the days after Barack Obama was elected president some 83 percent of respondents answered pretty badly or fairly badly
November 2008: 83% answer Badly
April 2013: 50% answer Badly
That the number of people that think the US is doing well is growing is a GOOD THING, so congratulations for shitting on that, I guess?
We're in a perpetual state of war, on foreign land and on our own soil now. This country is completely out of control.
I guess from a consumer standpoint things are "better." A 60" LCD is completely affordable now. So the masses can watch the media tell them that things are better. Me on the other hand…. I'm busy on my bike.
+Lucius Nite I call Bullshit.
We have ZERO troops in Iraq.
August 2009: 71,000 troop in Afghanistan.
February 2013: 66,000 troops in Afghanistan, with HALF of them coming home by the end of the year, and the other half on schedule to come home by the end of next year.
There's your "perpetual war" right there – with half of it wound up, and the other half wound up in the next 16-24 months.
+Lucius Nite When was the last time you contacted your congresspeople about your concerns?
I contact them pretty much on a weekly basis. They're pretty cool people, and Jared Polis even plays League of Legends.
http://www.popvox.com
I contact them all the time. They're almost all useless, I rarely hear back – yet I still contact them to cover my basis for answering that question.
I'm not going to pull up all the numbers and stats. That's ridiculous. Those numbers go both ways (which is part of the problem – getting all of us to argue with each other).
All one has to do is look with their own eyes. Look at high prices of gas and food. Then look at the decline in property value and wages.
I don't need any statistical data to see what's going on.
Yes, you do.
Math is science. Everything else is merely opinion.
Show me the numbers, or GTFO.
Once you adjust for inflation, gas is cheaper than it was in 1918, and it's cheaper than it was in 1980.
http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/Gasoline_Inflation.asp
And it's friggin' dirt cheap on the global scale. Just ask any Brit or German what they pay for gas.
The average wages is going up, too.
https://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html
Your argument hinges almost entirely on "Well, MY life isn't getting better".
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-05/real-march-unemployment-rate-116
http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2013/03/10/the-real-story-behind-fridays-unimpressive-unemployment-rate-decline/
Gee. It's so much better.
What the media reports in the mainstream is better.
Unfortunatly numbers and data dont mean jack to those in the thick of it. This far down the ladder, those results have not trickled that far yet.
Im glad for you things are getting better. But for many, it has just simply gotten worse.
+Nate Taylor IIRC you used to work retail at a gas station, and now you're working in IT. Am I to infer from this that you believe things are worse for you now than they were in February?
No worse, no better either. In relation to this conversation any way. My LIFE is much better, that's because I am happy with myself for once…
I know the position I am in, I also know how I got here. I blame no one, not even the government for my position.
I am not complaining either, just sharing my opinion on the subject and how I come to that opinion.