A CBS News-New York Times poll was released this morning. It showed that over 80% of Americans think the country is headed in “the wrong direction,” that “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” Two in three people think we’re now in a recession.
And yet, 28% of Americans think George Bush is doing a good job as president. So even though the vast majority of us think things are going poorly, two-thirds of us don’t blame George Bush for that.
But you know whom we do blame? “Government officials.” Sixty-eight percent of us think the housing crisis is due to regulators and lenders. Only 14% of us blame the borrowers.
But 53% of us think the government should help bail out homeowners who took out loans they couldn’t afford.
In summation: The country is way off track, especially economically. That is not, however, the president’s fault. It’s the fault of government officials, who clearly can’t be trusted to run the economy. But government officials should definitely save the economy, by giving money to homeowners, who really can’t be blamed for buying homes they couldn’t afford.
Oh: And we now care more about our wallets than we do the war in Iraq.
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Numbers aside, the summation is very well said. We like anonymous government officials, just not ones with names that we know, I guess.
FreetoBe–no problemo. I shall pray as well.
I guess I don't understand your point:
-Is the summation your summation of the situation or the summation of the reported data?
-I agree with previous poster that The data shows that the # of people who think we are "headed in the wrong direction" is almost equal to the number of people who DON'T "think George Bush has done a good job." The assessment would therefore assume they are one in the same… Which is not what it seems that you are saying…
So homeowners are not responsible for buying homes they couldn't afford??
I'm sorry, I just don't see which side you are taking on any of this, how you are analyzing the data, and what points you are making.
I do however know where I stand on these issues:
-Bush can't be blamed for everything just as he wasn't given credit for when things were great and unemployment was at an all time low and the stock market was at an all time high.
-Home owners are responsible for buying homes they can't afford regardless of what lenders told them…it's common sense, a variable rate mortgage is VARIABLE and will go up….it's common sense, the housing market couldn't sustain the trajectory it was on…
You know, I believe you have a point there. Oh, well. It's not like it really effects the overall point of the post, or anything like that.
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