Saturday, January 4, 2014

Boston Globe: Americans More Pessimistic - betcha they'd be even MORE pessimistic with Czar Camuso and Comrade McGlynn on the national stage

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Americans more pessimistic

Half say system in need of change or total overhaul

 

WASHINGTON — Americans enter 2014 with a profoundly negative view of their government, expressing little hope that elected officials can or will solve the nation’s biggest problems, a new poll finds.

 

The percentage of Americans saying the nation is heading in the right direction hasn't topped 50 percent in about a decade. In the new poll, 70 percent lack confidence in the government's ability “to make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014.”
The poll comes about two months after partisan gridlock prompted the first government shutdown in 17 years.