Only 21% Say U.S. Government Has Consent of the Governed.

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Only one in five think that the US government has the consent of the people.

Seventy five percent are angry about it.

In his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, Scott Rasmussen observes that the American people are “united in the belief that our political system is broken, that politicians are corrupt, and that neither major political party has the answers.” He adds that “the gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and the politicians who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century.”
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Nearly half of all voters believe that people randomly selected from the phone book could do as good a job as the current Congress.

(Maybe the other half think people randomly selected from the phone book could do better??) :birgits_giggle:

Six percent believe the stimulus worked.

Seven percent believe Elvis is alive.

Evidently over ninety percent of the people think the teleprompter in chief is spewing BS!!

Middle ground vanishing in Washington.

A lot can change in the next nine months, but the current political pendulum seems to be swinging against the incumbent Democratic majority and towards a purified, conservative Republican party.

Bayh’s announcement follows similar decisions from Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., to not to seek reelection. Republican incumbents are abandoning ship in states like Florida, New Hampshire and Ohio, but the Democrats simply have more to lose. They are the majority holders in the House and Senate, and so any anti-incumbent feeling will deal them the hardest blow.

Voters are angry about the stimulus packages, bailouts, wasteful budgets and bloated health care bills put forth by the Democrats. Whenever a truly bipartisan solution is placed on the table, whether it be 2008’s New Energy Reform Act, which Bayh supported, or the recent jobs-creation bill, the liberal Democratic leadership under Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., or Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., have shot it down.

It is this ineptitude that both Bayh and the American people oppose.

 

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21 % "Yes" means "no."

EDIT: 7 % think Elvis is alive?! Wow, those folks are picking up steam!

 

[Cartervol]

Just shows how out of touch the government is with the people they govern. Politicians make a habit of circling around the true root of the problem and coming up with crap that's so far out there it makes you want to scratch your head. Our system for the most part is broken. The stimulus is and was a joke to begin with.

We just live in a time when greed and corruptness rules.

The rising cost of living is one root of the problem. Inflation in everything we consume is a major factor in the stale economy. I'd estimate in the last three years to live like i do, it's costing me somewhere around 30 percent more. So what do i do? Listen to Dave Ramsey, turn the lights off, eat Romain noodles for 3 years? Most people won't do that and i'm one of them. People just don't have the money and most are lucky to pay their bills, most middle class fall somewhere in this category.

Too many people living off the government is another big problem. Our government fails to regulate this part of the problem properly. Yeah there are people who truly need the assistance, but there are those who are stealing also. Those people should be found and thrown in jail for stealing.

It's a broken system, put term limits on these idiots. Review their job performance every year and fire them if they don't do their job. That's how it works in the real world. That's another problem, politicians live a plush lifestyle and don't live in the real world. They are truly out of touch.,