Hey Ted, you forgot to highlight this part of the article:
> At the same time, Americans are divided over the scope of government regulation. More than 40 percent of Americans say the government has gone too far in measures to fix the financial industry; 37 percent say it hasn’t done enough. Almost six out of 10 people say Wall Street hasn’t gone far enough on its own to protect against future emergencies.
I didn't miss it....its not too unlike Americans being disappointed that there is not more bipartisanship in DC. That's there ideal but then they also want their health care reform. ;-)
And then lets not ignore that last line:
"Almost six out of 10 people say Wall Street hasn’t gone far enough on its own to protect against future emergencies."
Its probably going to take gov't to make Wall Street do what it should do on its own. After all, that's why we have gov't.
“Anything the government gets their fingers in, they mess it up,” said poll participant Norman White, 60, a community college electronics instructor who lives in Colfax, Louisiana. “I don’t have a very high opinion of the government running anything.”
It makes sense. The public distrusts Congress more than it distrusts Wall Street and the big banks.
We've had a 100 years of the Rs telling Americans that gov't is bad. Things won't change overnite.
Did you know that one of the reasons why American cities have been in such disfavor is that many of our FF thought that cities were the epitome of evil? Its why American cities tend to be the home of the working classes and the more affluent live in the suburbs. Its only been in the last 50 years that that thinking has started to change and only in the last 20 years that some American cities have started to become much more popular than their suburbs......see SFO, SD, Denver, MPLS, Seattle, both Portlands, etc. Contrast that to foreign cities....particularly those in Europe.....where the wealthy live in the city and the poor live in the suburbs.
Its time for Americans to give up the silly notion that we can have small gov't for a country of over 300 million people and that gov't is inherently bad.
Even Obama is now "upside-down" in his poll numbers.
That was one poll........and I think it may become an outlier. Just sayin'. ;-) |
