Most Americans say U.S. on wrong track, poll says

Cybergal · Apr 4, 2008

Most Americans say U.S. on wrong track, poll says

4/3/08

NEW YORK (AP) -- More than 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the highest such number since the early 1990s, according to a new survey.

The CBS News-New York Times poll released Thursday showed 81 percent of respondents said they believed "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." That was up from 69 percent a year ago, and 35 percent in early 2002.
The survey comes as housing turmoil has rocked Wall Street amid an economic downturn. The economy has surpassed the war in Iraq as the dominating issue of the U.S. presidential race, and there is now nearly a national consensus that the United States faces significant problems, the poll found.

A majority of Democrats and Republicans, men and women, residents of cities and rural areas, college graduates and those who finished only high school say the United States is headed in the wrong direction, according to the survey, which was published on The New York Times' Web site.
Seventy-eight percent of respondents said the country was worse off than five years ago; just 4 percent said it was doing better.

The newspaper said Americans are more dissatisfied with the country's direction than at any time since the poll's inception in the early 1990s. Only 21 percent of respondents said the overall economy was in good condition, the lowest such number since late 1992. Two in three people said they believed the economy was already in recession.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/04/dissatisfied.poll.ap/index.html
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Harley · Apr 5, 2008

It sounds like people are starting to wake up out of their self-induced coma and actually starting to look at the bigger picture. Even with that, their a day late and a buck short.
The ones that say the economy is doing good are probably the people that have made money employing cheap labor.
It boggles the mind, 85,000 people lost their jobs last month but the government wants to hand out 65,000 H1B visas.
I dont know why people want to talk bad about Bush, he's the best president China ever had.

dancnoone · Apr 5, 2008

Wrong direction would be putting $100K on your credit card with a job at McDonalds.

So yes, we are headed in the wrong direction.

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