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US: Washington Post-ABC News poll
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev
    This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone July 14-17, 2011, among a random national sample of 1,001 adults, including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York.

    Read the results here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postabcpoll_071711.html

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    Weekly income per capita (with inflation taken in account)
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  • MrAnthonyMrAnthony
    All this shows is that the Democrats have succeeded in their class-warfare propaganda, by convincing gullible people that the "rich" aren't paying their fair share in taxes, when in fact the rich (top 5%) pay 58% of the taxes while holding only 34% of the wealth. These facts are easily found from the IRS, but people prefer to get their information from politicians' sound bites and false claims. In America, even if we confiscated 100% of the wealth of the uber-rich, it wouldn't make a dent in the nation debt--that's how badly Congress has managed our money. Nancy Pelosi and President Obama have spent more than Bush ever did, but again, that's not something people really understand.
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev
    @MrAnthony
    Of course it is interesting to discuss cracks on painting near your seat and find someone to blame.
    But plane is going down. It simply does not matter.
  • cosimo_bullocosimo_bullo
    "Nancy Pelosi and President Obama have spent more than Bush ever did, but again, that's not something people really understand." Care to attempt to back that up with even one fact. Bush ran huge deficits, year after year... but that seemed to be okay during his term...

    @Vitaliy: we shall see. That sort of prognosticating has been mostly wrong decade after decade.
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev
    >we shall see. That sort of prognosticating has been mostly wrong decade after decade.

    Look at the charts and statistics.
    And prognosis had been right since about 1967-68, point then US economy started to go down.
    Exact impact second can be wrong, but outcome can't.
  • cosimo_bullocosimo_bullo
    "And prognosis had been right since about 1967-68, point then US economy started to go down.
    Exact impact second can be wrong, but outcome can't"
    Clear wishful thinking, but not an argument. The US economy through the 80s and most of the 90s was rather robust, and the envy of many. It will go down, up, down, up many more times.
  • cosimo_bullocosimo_bullo
    And the graph above (and a phone survey with just 1000 people.. c'mon man) shows a less then 10% drop in a VERY bad recession. What would you expect???
  • brianlucebrianluce
    @Vitaliy
    >>>>>Exact impact second can be wrong, but outcome can't.

    And what will that outcome be?
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