An unnecessary war that won't end. Gas prices at $3.30. Food prices up. Health care costs have gone through the roof. The electric company just wrote a letter telling my wife and me that electric rates are going up. More and more people are worried about their jobs. Incomes are flat. Education expenses soaring. A department of justice poorly led by a serial liar who thinks that torturing prisoners is morally defensible, and that spying on Americans without warrant is Constitutional. A President who doesn't seem competent to organize a two car parade, yet is somehow able to bully the Congress at will. Oh, did I mention the optional war that has turned into a death trap for thousands and a money pit that will take generations to pay off. We still haven't caught Osama Bin Ladin.
Is it any wonder that according to a recent AP-Ipsos poll
Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an AP-Ipsos poll this month. That is about the lowest level of satisfaction detected since the survey started in December 2003. . . .And the poll was taken in April, before gas prices soared like a John Ashcroft eagle. The poll found similar numbers across all demographic groups with white males slightly more optimistic than minorities and women.
Asked in April why they felt things were veering in the wrong direction, one-third overall volunteered the war and one-fourth blamed poor leadership.
Nine percent faulted the economy, 8 percent a loss of moral values and 5 percent gasoline prices.
"We need to get out of war, get our economy back up, quit spending money outside of America and bring it here," said Democrat Lisa Pollard, 45, an insurance company analyst in Arlington, Texas.
Only 25% think America is headed in the right direction. Why don't we pull over and look at a map?
