10-26-2011, 06:36 PM
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“[A] house divided against itself cannot stand ...” Abraham Lincoln
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Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing. In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, 21 percent had a favorable opinion and 46 percent had not heard enough. Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more than doubled, to 40 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/op...apartymovement
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Well OWS is doing better than the TEA Party, that is if you believe polls ...
Either way, Congess' approval rating has slipped to an all time low -- 9%
I never really understood my parents, aunts and uncles feelings towards the Great Depression. In fact they rarely talked about it. Some of the reason that they avoided the topic was probably like what this Great Recession is doing to everyone now.
One only has to think on the 1930's and 1940's; what happened and to hope for a dissimilar outcome. However, the waters are stormy with a similar, albeit not yet so severe, economic hardship, extremism and nationalism as seen during the Great Depression but the despair is manifesting itself differently this time -- perhaps only tempered by the "socialistic" programs instituted as the result of the Great Depression, i.e.; Social Security, Unemployment Benefits, Medicare-Medicaid and Public Assistance -- all the programs that create a "safety net" to control public extremism, read: mobs of starving people, soup lines and hobos ...
Maybe, there can be a peaceful outcome -- history says otherwise. |
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