Obama’s approval numbers hit all-time low
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President Barack Obama’s approval rating sank to a new low Friday, according to Gallup’s daily presidential tracking poll.
Just 40 percent of Americans say they approve of Obama’s performance as president. That is down three percentage points from Thursday. 50 percent say they do not approve of the job he is doing.
The poor rating comes amidst an increasingly chaotic debate over raising the debt ceiling, as the deadline to raise it or risk the government defaulting on its debts looms.
Just 41 percent of the public said they approved of the way Obama was handling the debt-ceiling negotiations, while 52 percent disapproved, according to another Gallup poll released Thursday. Nonetheless, Obama still polls better than congressional leadership. Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid both received even lower approval rates.
The president’s 40 percent approval rating follows a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press poll released Thursday that found Obama’s support among independents has eroded a great deal. 54 percent of independents disapprove of Obama’s performance as president, according to the Pew poll, the most during his time in office. Just 36 percent approve of the job he is doing.
Obama has also lost ground against a generic Republican challenger — getting 41 percent of the vote when matched with an unnamed Republican who polled 40 percent.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Americans wising up to Obama
>>
>> WE'VE FIGURED HIM OUT!
>> By Ben Stein
>>
>>
>> Why was President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized
>> medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some
>> basic
>> truths:
>>
>> The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a
>> pig
>> in a poke in 2008.
>> (Pig in a poke means: an offering or deal that is foolishly accepted
>> without being examined first. A poke means sack.)
>>
>> They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and
>> different
>> from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
>>
>> They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.
>>
>> They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes
>> by
>> his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
>>
>> They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a
>> student.
>>
>> They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois
>> state legislator, and Senator.
>>
>> The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a
>> student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being
>> touted as a scholar.
>>
>> Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack
>> Obama
>> is a super likeable super leftist, and not a fan of this country.
>>
>> The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus
>> bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat
>> interest groups, and in no way helped all Americans.
>>
>> The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health
>> costs
>> while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of
>> something
>> that never was and never can be --
>> "a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society." Either the costs go up
>> or
>> the free society goes away... an historical truth.
>>
>> These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State,
>> has
>> given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal
>> of
>> the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health
>> care.It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from
>> global
>> warming, itself largely a fraud, if believed to be caused by man.She has
>> also signed on to a Small Firearms Treaty at the U.N. This is a back door
>> gun control move. This is approved by the Senate and a 2nd Amendment
>> majority doesn't exist in the Senate now. It will supersede all U.S. Law
>> and
>> the 2nd Amendment. All citizen possession will be eliminated through
>> confiscation. Just Like Great Britain and Australia .
>>
>> Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays
>> at
>> all in taking away our freedoms.There is his urgency and our opportunity.
>> Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .
>>
>> Ben Stein is a writer, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and
>> Malibu . He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American
>> Spectator.
>> WE'VE FIGURED HIM OUT!
>> By Ben Stein
>>
>>
>> Why was President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized
>> medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some
>> basic
>> truths:
>>
>> The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a
>> pig
>> in a poke in 2008.
>> (Pig in a poke means: an offering or deal that is foolishly accepted
>> without being examined first. A poke means sack.)
>>
>> They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and
>> different
>> from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
>>
>> They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.
>>
>> They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes
>> by
>> his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
>>
>> They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a
>> student.
>>
>> They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois
>> state legislator, and Senator.
>>
>> The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a
>> student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being
>> touted as a scholar.
>>
>> Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack
>> Obama
>> is a super likeable super leftist, and not a fan of this country.
>>
>> The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus
>> bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat
>> interest groups, and in no way helped all Americans.
>>
>> The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health
>> costs
>> while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of
>> something
>> that never was and never can be --
>> "a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society." Either the costs go up
>> or
>> the free society goes away... an historical truth.
>>
>> These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State,
>> has
>> given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal
>> of
>> the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health
>> care.It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from
>> global
>> warming, itself largely a fraud, if believed to be caused by man.She has
>> also signed on to a Small Firearms Treaty at the U.N. This is a back door
>> gun control move. This is approved by the Senate and a 2nd Amendment
>> majority doesn't exist in the Senate now. It will supersede all U.S. Law
>> and
>> the 2nd Amendment. All citizen possession will be eliminated through
>> confiscation. Just Like Great Britain and Australia .
>>
>> Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays
>> at
>> all in taking away our freedoms.There is his urgency and our opportunity.
>> Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .
>>
>> Ben Stein is a writer, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and
>> Malibu . He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American
>> Spectator.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Obama destroying the economy-welfare state
The Welfare State
1. The goal of the left is to create enough entitlements, for enough people, that America’s two party system will become similar to those in Europe- where the essential components of the welfare state are never challenged any more. The quibbling between the parties is then only at the margins. The good society becomes an ordered society, with the rules and results , dictated by the bureaucrats. Obamacare, if not reversed, is likely to be the final nail in the coffin – creating a new class of tens of millions of people dependent on government. It will, of course, come at horrific cost- it will be jobs killing, and guarantee slower economic growth in the future, which will lower the average standard of living. It is likely to create demand driven inflation, which will be treated by the new classes of regulators through rationing, and price controls, which are very likely to drive physicians from their practice. And it is certain to be far more expensive than the CBO estimates for the legislation, moving up the day of reckoning for the nation’s spiraling out of control debt. The left will argue that the rich just need to pay their fair share. They will ignore the fact that the Bush tax cuts of 2001 removed almost half the population from the income tax roles, and Obamacare is financed at least half, and likely more than that, by tax increases , exclusively on upper income Americans. In Europe, everyone who works, pays taxes and rates are generally higher at all income levels than they are in America. . The left in America, behaves as if all their social programs can be paid for by squeezing those in the top bracket to pay higher taxes. They are very wrong on this, which means they are either bad at math, or liars, or too lazy to do the analysis. In no case, is the let willing to challenge any program, once they are established. All spending is essential. All cuts, they argue are draconian, impacting the poor, the elderly, the middle class, and disproportionately, minorities. Can anyone identify any spending programs that President Obama has shown a willingness to cut, other than defense? Where are the $3 trillion in cuts he supposedly put on the table? The left is allergic to spending cuts in domestic programs. Several articles below on America’s new welfare state, and what it means:
Randall Hoeven on Obama’s spending binge. . His message- please just spend like Bush did . http://tinyurl.com/4xgy9ah
The very blue states, like Illinois, have been a proving ground for the spending excesses in Washington. How sweet a deal do public employees have in Illinois? Very sweet: http://tinyurl.com/42ajnhe
Dennis Prager on how big government impacts society’s moral character. The left like to thing they are better people, since they care for other people. Prager provide evidence of why this does not hold up. http://tinyurl.com/3wlvohp
Walter Russell Mead on how liberalism has failed those in urban America: http://tinyurl.com/5ww69ps
Noemie Emery on how the failed welfare state has led to bankruptcy and recriminations : http://tinyurl.com/3jpev76
Are you ready for 70% marginal tax rates? http://tinyurl.com/43j2bek
James Ceasar and John York on the success to date, and the unfinished business of the tea party- http://tinyurl.com/5uh9n9c
Sheldon Adelson is the Las Vegas casino operator who has been a supporter of the Republicans. Steve Wynn, is the casino opera , who has leaned in the other direction. Here Wynn tees off on how Obama has been terrible for business across the country.
http://tinyurl.com/3gucs7p
1. The goal of the left is to create enough entitlements, for enough people, that America’s two party system will become similar to those in Europe- where the essential components of the welfare state are never challenged any more. The quibbling between the parties is then only at the margins. The good society becomes an ordered society, with the rules and results , dictated by the bureaucrats. Obamacare, if not reversed, is likely to be the final nail in the coffin – creating a new class of tens of millions of people dependent on government. It will, of course, come at horrific cost- it will be jobs killing, and guarantee slower economic growth in the future, which will lower the average standard of living. It is likely to create demand driven inflation, which will be treated by the new classes of regulators through rationing, and price controls, which are very likely to drive physicians from their practice. And it is certain to be far more expensive than the CBO estimates for the legislation, moving up the day of reckoning for the nation’s spiraling out of control debt. The left will argue that the rich just need to pay their fair share. They will ignore the fact that the Bush tax cuts of 2001 removed almost half the population from the income tax roles, and Obamacare is financed at least half, and likely more than that, by tax increases , exclusively on upper income Americans. In Europe, everyone who works, pays taxes and rates are generally higher at all income levels than they are in America. . The left in America, behaves as if all their social programs can be paid for by squeezing those in the top bracket to pay higher taxes. They are very wrong on this, which means they are either bad at math, or liars, or too lazy to do the analysis. In no case, is the let willing to challenge any program, once they are established. All spending is essential. All cuts, they argue are draconian, impacting the poor, the elderly, the middle class, and disproportionately, minorities. Can anyone identify any spending programs that President Obama has shown a willingness to cut, other than defense? Where are the $3 trillion in cuts he supposedly put on the table? The left is allergic to spending cuts in domestic programs. Several articles below on America’s new welfare state, and what it means:
Randall Hoeven on Obama’s spending binge. . His message- please just spend like Bush did . http://tinyurl.com/4xgy9ah
The very blue states, like Illinois, have been a proving ground for the spending excesses in Washington. How sweet a deal do public employees have in Illinois? Very sweet: http://tinyurl.com/42ajnhe
Dennis Prager on how big government impacts society’s moral character. The left like to thing they are better people, since they care for other people. Prager provide evidence of why this does not hold up. http://tinyurl.com/3wlvohp
Walter Russell Mead on how liberalism has failed those in urban America: http://tinyurl.com/5ww69ps
Noemie Emery on how the failed welfare state has led to bankruptcy and recriminations : http://tinyurl.com/3jpev76
Are you ready for 70% marginal tax rates? http://tinyurl.com/43j2bek
James Ceasar and John York on the success to date, and the unfinished business of the tea party- http://tinyurl.com/5uh9n9c
Sheldon Adelson is the Las Vegas casino operator who has been a supporter of the Republicans. Steve Wynn, is the casino opera , who has leaned in the other direction. Here Wynn tees off on how Obama has been terrible for business across the country.
http://tinyurl.com/3gucs7p
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