76% think country going in the wrong direction.

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kelliekat44 (5,315 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2014, 06:40 PM


76% think country going in the wrong direction. Does that mean recovery is the "wrong" direction?
I just don't get it. Any President would love to have the economic numbers trend Obama has now. What is wrong with people. The media has drumbeat the GOP fear and lying mantra and it has worked well for them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025752944

Fumesucker (37,753 posts)
1. What's wrong with people is that they are believing their lying eyes

The "recovery" has largely bypassed the majority of Americans while the 1% is raking in money that would make Scrooge McDuck green with envy.

Nothing much needs to be added to that, but the DUmmies pile on.  Many are ready to throw Obama under the bus.

Nay (7,178 posts)
18. Yup. We traveled the US for three months this summer and were appalled at

the condition of many, many small/medium towns. They look blasted and unkempt. Houses are burned, and left to rot. The only store is a Dollar Store. Frankly, it was horrifying.

Maedhros (4,119 posts)
4. There is more to consider than just the recovery.

Civil rights? Actively eroding.

More stupid wars of choice? Here, have some Iraq with a side of Syria.

Criminalization of investigative journalism. Blanket surveillance intensifies. Trade agreements shrouded in secrecy promise to further weaken the non-existent middle class. Global warming continues to be ignored. More fracking on the way.

Yeah, we're headed in the wrong direction.

LittleBlue (6,790 posts)
6. It's because the numbers are BS

Inflation, unemployment and many other numbers are doctored. They don't reflect the economic situation of most people. The numbers are manipulated by using methods like applying Hedonic pricing models, and not counting people who dropped out of the workforce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_regression

We don't have a comprehensive measure of total economic health in this country. But when you see a rejection of the party in power, it's a condemnation of the way that they've run the country. If 76% say it's going in the wrong direction, that means for 76% of the people, it is going in the wrong direction. And that's pretty terrible.

Mnpaul (1,756 posts)
14. If we had real inflation numbers

that included things like food and gas, you would see how bad it has become. Many don't see it because it has been declining their whole adult life.

Some of this is worse than we saw under President Bush.  Surely some of these have to be moles.  The alert buttons are getting their workout on this thread.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Yeah, DUmmy KelliKat is trying to sell everything like the U.S. is revelling in prosperity while her fellow DUmmy's aren't buying.  Must be sad to live a life of illusion/delusion.

[98ZJUSMC]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025752944

Nothing much needs to be added to that, but the DUmmies pile on.  Many are ready to throw Obama under the bus.

Some of this is worse than we saw under President Bush.  Surely some of these have to be moles.  The alert buttons are getting their workout on this thread.

So, (D)Ummies......some of you are finally admitting that the Regency of the Lord High Emperor, the government you crave, has been lying to you.  Now, who has been trying to tell you this for the last six years?   

Mnpaul (1,756 posts)
14. If we had real inflation numbers that included things like food and gas, you would see how bad it has become.

All too true....

Many don't see it because it has been declining their whole adult life.

....and a complete load of shit.

[fatboy]

Yeah, DUmmy KelliKat is trying to sell everything like the U.S. is revelling in prosperity while her fellow DUmmy's aren't buying.  Must be sad to live a life of illusion/delusion.

Not. Enough. Cowbell.