Poll: 44% say our economic system is not fair to them

[Bill USA]

...here's why the Occupy Movement has potential to GROW, 44% don't like Corporate Feudalism, no matter what Cantor, Boehner, Armey and M$M say:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-17/poll-wall-street-protests/50804978/1

the democracy that fancies itself the capital of capitalism, more than four in 10 people describe the U.S. economic system as personally unfair to them. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken last weekend, as the Occupy Wall Street protest movement completed its first month, found that:

•When asked whom they blame more for the poor economy, 64% of Americans name the federal government and 30% say big financial institutions.

•Only 54% say the economic system is personally fair to them; 44% say it is not.

•78% say Wall Street bears a great deal or a fair amount of blame for the economy; 87% say the same about Washington.
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Seventy percent have Negative view of Wall street

Seven in 10 Americans have an unfavorable impression of the financial institutions on Wall Street, a point of resonance with the protesters camped out in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere. But while that sentiment is broadly shared, its intensity rests heavily on political partisanship.

Groups such as Democrats and liberals express the most negative views of Wall Street in this ABC News/Washington Post poll. Conservatives and Republicans are less apt to slam the brokers and bankers, and more likely to direct their ire at the federal government.

Given this partisan and ideological cast, the results make the Occupy Wall Street movement look like an expression, on the left, of the same kind of frustration voiced by the Tea Party movement, on the right.

Overall, this poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, finds that 70 percent of Americans see Wall Street unfavorably, and essentially as many, 68 percent, hold an unfavorable opinion of the government in Washington. Negative views of Wall Street soar to 84 percent among liberal Democrats, versus 59 percent among conservative Republicans. Negative views of the government in Washington, meanwhile, reach 89 percent among conservative Republicans, versus 57 percent among liberal Democrats.
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... gee, do you think some people are starting to realize the GOP generated 'copy' Corporate media talking heads read to us is bull-shit?




Corporate Feudalism = Trickle Down Economics

[malthaussen]

1. Only 44%?

You know, the late Joe Bageant used to go on quite a lot about "the hologram" and how it had brainwashed American minds. I used to think it was hyperbole.

I now think I wasn't paying close enough attention.

-- Mal

[dkf]

2. 54% say it's fair.

[Bill USA]

3. when 44% have lost faith in our 'rulebook', you've got a problem.

[bulloney]

4. The remaining 56% are the one percenters

and the 55% who aren't smart enough to take a crap without Limbaugh, Hannity, et al telling them where, when and how much.