A NY Times polls shows Americans are feeling more optimistic about the economy since the inauguration. How do you feel and how does this news effect all the doom & gloomers here?
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The NY Times is famous for its liberal slant. The poll was comprised of 100% Obama butt snorkelers. Since my husband has lost his job, my company has frozen wages in the past 4 weeks, my Mom's business is at its slowest in 15 years, the Dow is at record lows, folks in my neighborhood can't sell their house, unemployment is in record numbers... I'm not at all optimistic. Neither is anyone that I know.
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I was kind of getting my hopes up that there'd be total depression, and I'd have to travel the country with a burlap sack, via train hopping.
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I would say I'm cautiously optimistic -- it's clear things can (and probably will) get uglier, but there is a sense that it may not melt down altogether (i.e. 40% unemployment in the developed world). As I understand it, consumer sentiment is a major leading indicator for economic growth... clearly when people are afraid, they don't spend. When they don't spend, that has a broad cascade effect which eventually results in fewer jobs, etc. I'm not sure who your question is aimed at (the doom and gloomers), but I imagine you're talking about those who have a vested interest in the failure of the Obama administration to make progress on the economy. While it's understandable that those who voted against him would get pleasure in seeing him fail, there's little doubt that holding such a position in the face of contrary evidence is a sign of poor internal integrity... to wish for the failure of an entire economy so you can be proven right is ego supreme.
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The NY Times could also produce a poll that shows Americans believe the sun shines out of Obama's rear end.
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I'm glad the "American Idiot" is history
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It does not affect us at all as we all know the MEDIA lies and we can not believe anything they put out.
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I am not so eagerly optimistic. Nothing is guaranteed here. It is far too soon to even speculate. It has nothing to do with "doom and gloomers". Those who you refer to as such are being far more realistic than those who are jumping up and down with ticker tapes.
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I think after the change of leadership from Cheney-Bush to Obama, many Americans were heartened. The economic recovery so far has little to do with the "Stimulus", which hasn't really hit yet (either to the economy or the deficit). The "bailout" of Wall Street and the Automakers are fueling things now. BUT WHAT happens when the stimulus money runs out? Or when the next generation or two have to pay it back?
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