Posted on 11/23/2010 6:45:39 AM PST by toma29
If there was one thing American voters made abundantly clear on Nov. 2, it's how unhappy they are with politicians and the way things work — or more often don't work — in Washington. Survey after survey has shown that the majority of voters want their elected representatives to do a much better job of coming together to solve the country's problems.
So will things improve after the "shellacking" that voters gave to Democrats in handing control of the House over to the Republicans?
Few Americans appear to be counting on it. In a new ABC News/Yahoo! News poll, most say they have little expectation that things will get better as a result of the recent midterms. Respondents were asked if they thought the election was more likely to move the country in the right direction or the wrong direction. The largest chunk of respondents, some 40 percent, said they didn't expect the election to make a difference at all. Only one-third of those polled, 34 percent, thought the results would move the country in the right direction, while another 21 percent said they thought things were headed the wrong way.
An even more telling sign: a whopping 81 percent thought that gridlock — in which the two political parties cannot agree and thus don't pass any meaningful legislation — is likely to occur in the two years leading up to the next presidential election.
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Jane, you ignorant slut. “Survey after survey has shown that the majority of voters want their elected representatives to do a much better job of coming together to solve the country’s problems.” No, most Americans want you to stop spending money that you don’t have—we couldn’t care less about coming together for togetherness sake.
Pray for gridlock.
Gridlock works for me.
Gridlock will not be a savior this time.
For all his faults, Obama may have *very* unintentionally done us all a great favor. This is because an essential ingredient of his socialized medicine is that both Medicare and Medicaid must be destroyed.
And it is doing just that. Destroying Medicare and Medicaid. And that is good. They are unsustainable as systems, were both destroying our economy, yet are so adored by people who think they are getting something for nothing that there was about no other way they could be destroyed.
Medicare and Medicaid “delenda est” (must be destroyed).
“But,” most people are quick to say, “Isn’t Obamacare worse?”
Yes, indeed it *would* be worse, if it was allowed to come into being.
But there are no guarantees in life. With this election, and the elections in 2012, creating a Republican president, Senate and House, Obamacare may be killed deader than a doornail.
*After* it has destroyed Medicare and Medicaid. Leaving us all with NO, ZERO, government health care.
Once they have killed Obamacare, all the Republicans have to do is stop Medicare and Medicaid from being brought back from the dead, like two sparkly vampires.
If the federal government gets out of health care for good, it saves 20% of the federal budget. Twenty Percent! One-fifth of all federal spending.
And that goes a very, very long way to bringing our nation back to its financial health.
ADULTS--not even registered voters! No wonder it makes no sense. When Ras tells me the same thing about LIKELY VOTERS, I'll get worried.
I suspect we'll be buried in avalanches of similar BS polls trying to fool the timid elected establishment Republicans into thinking they'll be better off if they COMPROMISE. They won't be better off--they'll be primaried and booted if they fall for it.
The country does MUCH better when the politicians are NOT trying to solve the nation’s problems. They have historically and consistently made things much worse through their “fixes.” Perhaps worse than their “fixes” is the uncertainty they create, making it impossible for any business to make rationale plans.
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