Obama`s approval rating drops dramatically

[ironsides]

What is really wrong with a company willing to give its employees a so called "Cadillac" health plan, and why should it be taxed at all, especially if the employee pays a little more out of his already taxed salary for it. Anyone on that plan will not be supported by the public health plan, plus they would be (should be) making decent salaries that would be taxed thus supporting what ever the goverment wants to do.

 

[ironsides]

So...you want Obama to force consumers to buy sardines? You want him to say the hell with fisheries biology, and remove all quotas?

Just what is it you would do?

The industry peaked in the 50's. This was a long time coming.

Why not, we will still be buying sardines, only it will be from another source in another country. Nothing will change except Americans will be out of work.

 

[FiveParadox]

Why not, ...

Why not what?

Why not remove quotas?

 

[Tonington]

Why not, we will still be buying sardines, only it will be from another source in another country. Nothing will change except Americans will be out of work.

Demand has been dropping for sardines since the 50's. Stocks though have been under steady pressure.

So again I'll ask, what would you do? How is this Obama's fault? I mean this seems to me to be a huge contradiction. Haven't you posted before on the ills of government control in the market? If that's true for healthcare, then why isn't it true for processed foods?

 

[ironsides]

Demand has been dropping for sardines since the 50's. Stocks though have been under steady pressure.

So again I'll ask, what would you do? How is this Obama's fault? I mean this seems to me to be a huge contradiction. Haven't you posted before on the ills of government control in the market? If that's true for healthcare, then why isn't it true for processed foods?

Sardines are probably one of the most nutritious foods a person could eat, and preventing or limiting them from people would be unhealthy. I am not advocating fishing them to extinction, but Obama could have stepped in and allowed one cannery to operate.

 

[Johnnny]

Shouldnt you guys be watching the hockey game?

 

[Tonington]

Sardines are probably one of the most nutritious foods a person could eat, and preventing or limiting them from people would be unhealthy. I am not advocating fishing them to extinction, but Obama could have stepped in and allowed one cannery to operate.

People can still buy them if they want. What do you mean allowed? How is this Obama's decision to close the plant?

From your article:

Faced with declining demand and a changing business climate, the plants went by the wayside one by one until, five years ago, the Stinson plant was the last one standing.

Obama had nothing to do with it. How should he step in and allow? Is he going to tell other countries to stop producing so cheaply? Subsidize one plant?

 

[Tonington]

Shouldnt you guys be watching the hockey game?

Who says I am not? It's 3-1, the Pens are losing all the battles right now. Sens are looking good.

 

[Tonington]

It's 3-1, the Pens are losing all the battles right now. Sens are looking good.

This is probably Obama's fault too. :lol:

 

[gopher]

"Obamacare socks middle class with $3.9 billion tax increase"


That's all?

Bush's war gave a one TRILLION DOLLAR bill. Now that should get everyone angry.

 

[gopher]

Republicans claim Obama lost the November 2009 elections because two governorships went GOP. But they forgot that Congress GAINED two House seats to give them a bigger majority.

Now, Dems win still another seat in Florida:

Dem wins U.S. House race in Florida - Omaha.com



A Democratic state senator on Tuesday handily won the first U.S. House race since Congress passed a massive health care overhaul, beating a decided underdog Republican who tried to use the backlash against the measure to pull the upset.
With 59 percent of precincts reporting, Florida state Sen. Ted Deutch had 62 percent of the vote compared to 36 percent for Republican Ed Lynch. No-party candidate Jim McCormick trailed far behind with just 3 percent. The Associated Press called the race just about two hours after the polls closed.
Deutch, an attorney, and Lynch, a contractor, both 44, were vying to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler.
"I have never before felt the way that I feel at this moment," Deutch said to cheering supporters.



Now Obama has even more supporters in Congress!

 

[ironsides]

AP-GfK Poll: Obama slips, other Dems slide, too

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's national standing has slipped to a new low after his victory on the historic health care overhaul, even in the face of growing signs of economic revival, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll.
The survey shows the political terrain growing rockier for Obama and congressional Democrats heading into midterm elections, boosting Republican hopes for a return to power this fall.
Just 49 percent of people now approve of the job Obama's doing overall, and less than that — 44 percent — like the way he's handled health care and the economy. Last September, Obama hit a low of 50 percent in job approval before ticking a bit higher. His high-water mark as president was 67 percent in February of last year, just after he took office.
The news is worse for other Democrats. For the first time this year, about as many Americans approve of congressional Republicans as Democrats — 38 percent to 41 percent — and neither has an edge when it comes to the party voters want controlling Congress. Democrats also have lost their advantage on the economy; people now trust both parties equally on that, another first in 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_ap_poll_democratic_woes

 

[ironsides]

Republicans claim Obama lost the November 2009 elections because two governorships went GOP. But they forgot that Congress GAINED two House seats to give them a bigger majority.

Now, Dems win still another seat in Florida:

Dem wins U.S. House race in Florida - Omaha.com



A Democratic state senator on Tuesday handily won the first U.S. House race since Congress passed a massive health care overhaul, beating a decided underdog Republican who tried to use the backlash against the measure to pull the upset.
With 59 percent of precincts reporting, Florida state Sen. Ted Deutch had 62 percent of the vote compared to 36 percent for Republican Ed Lynch. No-party candidate Jim McCormick trailed far behind with just 3 percent. The Associated Press called the race just about two hours after the polls closed.
Deutch, an attorney, and Lynch, a contractor, both 44, were vying to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler.
"I have never before felt the way that I feel at this moment," Deutch said to cheering supporters.



Now Obama has even more supporters in Congress!

They never lost it, net gain zero.

 

[ironsides]

Democrats' Rainbows and Unicorns

YouTube - Democrats' Rainbows and Unicorns

 

[ironsides]

If they wanted disapproval number they should have asked the millions who have lost their homes to foreclosure.To put Obama’s Olympian hypocrisy in perspective, one need only examine the federal budget tables posted on the White House website by Obama’s own Office of Management and Budget.
They reveal these startling facts: When calculated by the average annual percentage of the Gross Domestic Product that he will spend during his presidency, Obama is on track to become the biggest-spending president since 1930, the earliest year reported on the OMB’s historical chart of spending as a percentage of GDP. When calculated by the average annual percentage of GDP he will borrow during his presidency, Obama is on track to become the greatest debter president since Franklin Roosevelt.
Obama will outspend and out-borrow the admittedly profligate George W. Bush, a man Obama and his lieutenants routinely malign for fiscal recklessness and who, when in office, was often hailed even by his allies as a Big Government Republican. Obama will even outspend—but not quite out-borrow—his fellow welfare-state liberal FDR, who had to contend with both the Depression and World War II
Bush ran annual deficits that averaged 3.4 percent of GDP—and that includes fiscal 2009, when the deficit soared to 9.9 percent of GDP and Obama signed a $787 billion stimulus bill (some of which was spent in fiscal 2009) after Bush left office. Obama, according to OMB, will run deficits that average 7.05 percent of GDP—or more than twice the average deficits under Bush.

 

[YukonJack]

Here is another one:

Poll Finds Nostalgia For Bush - The Eye (CQ Politics)

 

[JLM]

Here is another one:

Poll Finds Nostalgia For Bush - The Eye (CQ Politics)

I don't think I'd read too much into that Y.J., it was one poll taken on one specific day, apparently Obama's "unpopularity" is tied to the health care issue which I think we all know is a contraversial issue and as far as George Bush goes- he means nothing, he's history, what he did or didn't do has nothing to do with current events- time to "bury" him, figuratively of course.

 

[GreenFish66]

Obama is the best president The U.S has had in years ..Who is the alternative?...I am tired of all the right wing B.S. talk , from the very people who ran U.S. into the ground over and over again.. The truth will set you free, war mongers / gun totin red necks.. ...



What have the republicans ever done for the U.S..? Besides perhaps Regan ..

Defense.gov - Nuclear Posture Review -

Summit vows to secure nuclear supply in four years - CTV News

Prime Minister of Canada: PM announces a nuclear cooperation project with the United States to further secure inventories of spent highly enriched uranium

Peace or Pieces?

Peace...

 

[darkbeaver]

The best of US presidents is the worst of men. This is the long established rule demonstrated murderously everyday on this planet Mr Fish.

 

[GreenFish66]

Whatever that means dark beaver... Who is the alternative ? ..What is their platform ?.. What will they do for their country?...There are problem makers and problems solvers...Some like to pick and pull everything apart .Real leaders find solutions and take and make action .Take the pieces , pull it , put it back together..IN 1 Greater Peace..Without using War / Fear or Hate as an end..

Obama is a great president ...Yes it just so happens he is a man ..(?)