Posted on 08/15/2011 9:23:24 PM PDT by blam
16 Statistics Which Prove That The American People Are Absolutely Seething With Anger
August 15, 2011
According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now. The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this country is headed.
Never before in modern U.S. history have the American people been this angry. There is vast disagreement about what the solutions to our problems actually are, but what everyone can agree on is that the American people are absolutely seething with anger right now. The statistics that you are about to read are mind blowing.
We used to be such a happy country. Once upon a time we were one of the happiest places on earth. But as the economy has fallen to pieces anger has been steadily growing. If something is not done to turn the economy around eventually this anger is going to erupt in frightening and unpredictable ways.
The American people are not equipped to handle hard times. We are incredibly spoiled. Most of us have only known good times, and most of us have been taught that we will have endless prosperity all of our lives because we live in the greatest nation on earth.
Well, "the greatest nation on earth" is about to get a massive wake up call. We are up to our eyeballs in debt and we are bleeding jobs, businesses and wealth at an astounding pace. Our economy is dying right in front of our eyes, and most Americans have been so "dumbed-down" that they don't even realize what is happening.
But what most Americans do know is that things are "bad" and they want someone to "fix" things. They know that something is "not right" and they want things to go back to the way things used to be. The longer it takes for things to return to "normal", the angrier they are going to get.
The following are 16 statistics which prove that the American people are absolutely seething with anger right now....
#1 A new Washington Post poll has found that a whopping 78 percent of Americans are dissatisfied "with the way this country’s political system is working".
#2 That same poll found that only 26 percent of Americans believe that the federal government can solve the economic problems that we are now facing.
#3 Gallup says that Barack Obama's job approval rating has hit an all-time low of 39%.
#4 According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, Congress has a disapproval rating of 82%.
#5 A new Rasmussen survey has found that 85 percent of Americans believe that members of Congress "are more interested in helping their own careers than in helping other people."
#6 That same survey found that 46 percent of the American people believe that most members of Congress are corrupt. That figure was a new all-time high.
#7 According to a different Rasmussen survey, only 17 percent of Americans now believe that the U.S. government has the consent of the governed.
#8 A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll discovered that 73 percent of the American people believe that the nation is "on the wrong track".
#9 A recent poll taken by Rasmussen found that 68 percent of Americans believe that we are actually in a recession right now.
#10 According to Gallup, the percentage of Americans that lack confidence in U.S. banks is now at an all-time high of 36%.
#11 U.S. consumer confidence is now at its lowest level in 30 years.
#12 According to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, 90 percent of Americans believe that the economy is performing poorly.
#13 That same poll found that approximately 80 percent of Americans believe that it is "difficult" to find a job these days.
#14 According to one recent poll, 39 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. economy has now entered a "permanent decline".
#15 Another recent survey found that 48 percent of Americans believe that it is likely that another great Depression will begin within the next 12 months.
#16 According to a brand new Rasmussen survey, 48% of Americans believe that reductions in government spending are "at least somewhat likely" to result in civil unrest inside the United States.
So why doesn't the government step in and spend a whole bunch of money and make everything all better?
Well, the problem is that we have done this time after time before and now we are broke.
We have been living way, way beyond our means for decades and now the bills are coming due.
David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States, has been warning about our debt problem for years. Walker says that the United States is heading for a "sudden and very painful" economic collapse....
"Here’s the bottom line. If you take the total liabilities of the United States – public debt, unfunded pensions, retiree health care, under funding with regard to social security, with regard to medicare, a range of commitments and contingencies – as of September 30 2010 we would have had to have had $61.6 trillion dollars in the bank in order to be able to defease those obligations."
The cold, hard truth is that the U.S. national debt should have been addressed many years ago when it was still relatively small.
At this point, there is no solution to our national debt problem under our current financial system.
Most state governments are also facing huge financial problems. The state government of Illinois is so broke at this point that it can't even afford to bury the poor people that are dying.
But Illinois is not alone. All over the country, state and local governments have been implementing austerity measures.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, state and local governments have slashed more than half a million jobs since August 2008.
That is a whole lot of good jobs that aren't there anymore.
But government debt is not the only debt problem that we are facing. Personal debt is also a raging crisis.
According to USDebtClock.org, the total amount of personal debt in the United States is now over 16 trillion dollars. The exploding levels of personal debt have created a tremendous amount of stress in households from coast to coast.
When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was in the middle class. But today the middle class is shrinking at lightning speed.
According to author David DeGraw, 17.3% of all Americans were living in poverty during 2009. Not only that, DeGraw also says that 9 major U.S. cities have a poverty rate of over 25 percent.
Can you imagine that?
In fact, there are some cities such as Detroit where the poverty rate is over 35 percent.
It is hard to believe what is happening to America. Today, there are over 45 million Americans on food stamps. That number has increased by approximately 12 percent in the last year alone.
There are currently 34 million Americans that need a full-time job. Unemployment is rampant and there is intense competition even for part-time jobs that pay minimum wage.
So where did all of the jobs go?
Well, as I have written about previously, globalism is absolutely devastating our economy. Millions of our jobs have been shipped to countries where labor is far, far cheaper and they aren't coming back.
In addition, millions of Americans that do still have jobs are also deeply struggling right now. There are millions and millions of Americans that are working part-time jobs because that is all that they can find right now. Millions of other Americans are flat broke and are discovering that their paychecks are "shrinking" due to inflation. Wages have barely risen while prices for food and other necessities are skyrocketing.
Most families are really struggling to get by right now.
According to the Washington Post, the average yearly income of the bottom 90 percent of U.S. income earners is $31,244.
It is really hard to pay a mortgage and feed a family on that income.
The only people that seem to be doing well are at the very top.
The average yearly income of the top 0.1% of U.S. income earners is 5.6 million dollars.
Not that making money is a bad thing, but when an economic system funnels all of the rewards to the very top you know something is deeply broken.
The poorest 50% of all Americans now own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.
A lot of poor Americans have literally fallen off the map. The Daily Mail recently did a feature on one tent city that has been constructed deep in a forest in New Jersey....
In scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression these are the ramshackle homes of the desperate and destitute U.S. families who have set up their own 'Tent City' only an hour from Manhattan.
More than 50 homeless people have joined the community within New Jersey's forests as the economic crisis has wrecked their American dream.
You can see shocking pictures of this tent city right here.
So it is no wonder why so many Americans are so angry.
If you lost your job or your home you would probably be angry too.
Most Americans just want to be able to go to work, make a decent living, pay the mortgage and provide for their families.
But in America today that is becoming increasingly difficult to do.
Our economy is a giant mess and the American people are becoming very angry.
If the economy gets even worse, they are going to become even angrier.
Storm clouds are gathering on the horizon.
Things are about to get very, very interesting.
Bottom line: “Keep yer powder dry!”
Can’t be true. Perry said we’re not angry, merely “indignant”. Big difference.
[Personally, I think we’re seething.]
William Ayers responded to Larry Gratwohl, "I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”
Twenty-five million people.
Anyone with an 0bama bumper sticker on his/her car is asking for an ass kicking.
A lot of those evil sonsabitches are going to die trying that.
I think that we are in for something like the collapse of Argentina’s ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yerKMQc7-w&feature=grec_index), but a much more violent version. We have a larger entitlement minded population and a much more violent and armed population than Argentina and I see many many small business wiped out by flash mob looting, and see rape, robbery and murder for murder sake. Many of these ‘yutes’ will think no more about killing you than most people think about stepping on a roach. That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.
Think of this quote which is one of my favorites:
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
Now go look at some of the videos of the riots in the UK and of some of the flash mobs here in the US and look into there eyes.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
“Anyone with an 0bama bumper sticker on his/her car is asking for an ass kicking.”
I don’t see how they could be asking for anything less. We are watching our country, our economy and even our military destroyed at breakneck pace. We are furious, but Perry thinks he’s doing us a favor by explaining that no, in fact we’re not angry after all? ‘Indignant’ is a Jeremiah Wright term; he used it to describe how we felt about seeing thousands of our countrymen slaughtered by Islamists. No, Wright; I was not indignant—I was livid. Same to you, Perry—’indignant’, at this stage of the Obamanation, just doesn’t cut it.
PING!
The government spending 160 percent of the government’s yearly income each year of Obama’s presidency is not helping. It is no wonder people are incensed. Cut the spending, you idiots in Washington!
“10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest Inside The United States Are Now More Likely Than Ever”
Which is exactly what the marxist in the Oval Office has wanted all along. He’s shamelessly and relentlessly riling everybody up with the language of class warfare. He is trying his dead level best to pit one class of Americans against another, and non-Americans against us both.
He is succeeding.
I don’t see how they could be asking for anything less. We are watching our country, our economy and even our military destroyed at breakneck pace. We are furious, but Perry thinks he’s doing us a favor by explaining that no, in fact we’re not angry after all? ‘Indignant’ is a Jeremiah Wright term; he used it to describe how we felt about seeing thousands of our countrymen slaughtered by Islamists. No, Wright; I was not indignant—I was livid. Same to you, Perry—’indignant’, at this stage of the Obamanation, just doesn’t cut it.
Exactly. People are pissed and things are going to get mean.
The typical 0bama supporter/useful idiot is in for a rude awakening. People will take it out on them because they were party to all this. I will.
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At first many Obama supporters were merely deluded. At this point there is no excuse. He and they have aligned themselves against the US. They have become the enemy. Still I am saving all mine up for Nov. ‘12. A rout at the polls will send the right message—providing it’s huge enough.
GUNS UP!
If any of you’ve read News Flavor’s Ulsterman lately, his White House Insider is reporting that Obama is bring on a race war. Things WILL get much worse.
This nation is presently run by crazed socialists! Once the dollar is no longer the international reserve currency, then the brown icky-stuff hits-the-fan - assuredly.
Five hundred years ago the Ming Emperors in China and the Ottoman Empire along the Mediterranean were the greatest powers on Earth. No one living then would have expected that by the next Millennium a rustic Europe and wilderness in North America would have brought about an industrial revolution and enriched many people in the world millions of times over!
But the Muslim fools who caused 9/11 expected the U.S.A. to crumble from a terrorist attack. We did not oblige them by doing so.
Everyone seems to underrate us. Europeans never expected the U.S. to make it after the Civil War, but we fought a war with Spain, then with China, then WWI and came out stronger than ever.
During the Depression we were hit with a debilitating environmental catastrophe causing a “dust bowl” in the Midwest, and all while paying very high taxes. Then came the attack on Pearl Harbor and WWII. Still, we came out stronger.
As you probably guess, I don’t see this as necessarily a bad situation but an opportunity.
We should chuck the United Nations off our shores, for starters, and the IMF after them. Hey, they won’t need our dollars anymore, now will they?
I do not support isolationism, but I know this nation can be energy independent.
I know we can feed ourselves and export any leftovers.
I know we have technological know-how. Hell, that’s why the Chinese are always stealing ideas from us!
Are there people who will riot? Sure, but they’re the same folks who riot after football and basketball games. Go figure!
Right now we need some time to get ourselves reorganized along Constitutional constructs and change to a tax system, either Flat or Fair, which will generate more jobs and revenue.
We must bring our military home from policing the rest of the world. I’m sure you’ve noticed the rest of the world really doesn’t appreciate our efforts.
Screw ‘em.
We’ve had the technology to launch ourselves into the Third Industrial Revolution for thirty years or more. Then we can laugh hysterically watching other nations try to catch up from their failed experiment in the socialist utopia known as ‘Globalism’.
The most maddening thing is that they are being used and don’t realize it or if they have an inkling that they are, they won’t admit it. It is beyond stupid. It is almost willful ignorance. It is complicity until they wake up and openly reject it.
Yes, they are my enemy, too. And they are the enemy of my 16 month old grandson and that is not acceptable or to be tolerated.
I don’t have time for a long reply, but I’ll just say this. If any candidate other than Ron Paul advocates getting rid of the UN and getting out of the IMF, he or she has my vote. [I don’t want to argue about Paul. I’m just too pro Israel to get anywhere near him.] As the saying goes, ‘it’s a good start’.
I like your way of thinking, Satin Doll.
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