Poll: Majority of Americans say they are worse off than they were two years ago

[Speck Tater]

A majority of Americans feel that America has is “on the wrong track,” and that they are worse off than they were in 2008.

In a sweeping poll released by Bloomberg today, 66 percent of respondents said that they felt that “things in the nation…have… gotten off on the wrong track,” compared to just 27 percent who felt the country was heading in the right direction. 51 percent of respondents said they were worse off now than they were two years ago.

Though reducing the deficit has been a central part of political rhetoric in recent weeks, only 25 percent of respondents said that they considered “the federal deficit and government spending” to be “the most important issue facing the country.” In addition, 51 percent of Americans said they feel that in addressing the deficit, it is more important to “minimize sacrifices for the American people,” and only 40 percent said the answer is “bold and fast change” that would tackle the issue head on.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/pollmajorityofamericanssaytheyareworseoffthantheyweretwoyearsago

(A little antidote to the "Everyone is Optimistic" meme.)

[InvisibleTouch]

1. Worse off than 2 years ago? Yes.

At least in the financial sense (though in every other way I'm doing better - but all of that can't be sustained if you can't pay your utilities). My livelihood depends on sales, and people don't have money to spend. It was bad two years ago. It was worse last year. It's tremendously worse this year.

I do think that if I can hang on and ride it out, it will get better ... but it better happen fast!

[hughee99]

2. Well, two years ago, many of us at least had hope that the people we just elected

were going to turn things around in Washington and stand up to business and special interests for us.

[NightWatcher]

3. It's still getting worse. We haven't hit rock bottom yet. We hoped we had by 08

I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel (aside from a speeding train) unless and until we change our ways. But we're not changing how we do anything, in fact we are doing things worse and faster than before. The pukes want to crash us while Obama's in office to take advantage for the next election.