Pew: Only 34% of Americans know that TARP was enacted under Bush

[Mr. Peepers]

You think Americans are dumb now, wait until Texas gets through rewriting US history in their "textbooks". I'm sure the marketers are drooling over the bumper crop of idiot mouth-breathing consumers we'll be turning out in the next decade or so. Jesus, you pracitcally have to raise your kids overseas to get a decent REAL WORLD education.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

regardless, don't confuse Bush for a conservative.

It's "compassionate conservative" if you're nasty.

 

[Avatar4321]

You think Americans are dumb now, wait until Texas gets through rewriting US history in their "textbooks". I'm sure the marketers are drooling over the bumper crop of idiot mouth-breathing consumers we'll be turning out in the next decade or so. Jesus, you pracitcally have to raise your kids overseas to get a decent REAL WORLD education.

Heaven forbid they correct blatant mistakes and restore things that we inappropriately removed. We shouldn't be taught what actually happened, just progressive ideas of what happened.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Heaven forbid they correct blatant mistakes and restore things that we inappropriately removed. We shouldn't be taught what actually happened, just progressive ideas of what happened.

1. What blatant mistakes?

2. What was removed that should still be?

3. We ARE taught what happened if we choose to read real accounts with the good, bad and ugly - what actually was.

Taking our Jefferson, a very important man in the construction of this country, and making the "Contract for America" seem like a good thing and making war-criminal Reagan into a god is not correcting or restoring a damn thing. It is rewriting history with a republican slant. Period.

 

[Political Junky]

I watched part of Ellen yesterday. In a quiz portion, one woman didn't know what H2O was or which state New Orleans is in.
I love those segments on Leno. So many Americans are dumb.

 

[Political Junky]

Democrats held the Senate:

Democrats: 49
Republicans: 49
Independents: 2

SO IT'S THE DEMOCRATS FAULT!

So you're conceding that all this massive spending and bail outs has had a negative impact on our nation. Good.

The Dow Jones closed today at 10154.43. 4,000 points higher than when Bush left it.

Bush, pushing TARP almost did something right. But when Republicans are involved, everything ends fucked up. Whether its two wars, education, Republican support for moving jobs overseas. Subsidies for oil companies. Apologizing to oil companies. Screwing the middle class.

Republicans are like "Jubilation T Cornpone".

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Excellent comparison. Love that show.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Democrats held the Senate:

Democrats: 49
Republicans: 49
Independents: 2

SO IT'S THE DEMOCRATS FAULT!

Funny how you insist they are Independents when you no longer need them. Are you taking lessons from Obama now? All the Independents in the Senate caucus with the Democrats, which essentially makes them Democrats.

Everything has to be explained to you guys. Republicans keep saying "Democrats" had both houses in 2007 and 2008. Yea, BUT THE FUCKING REPUBLICANS OBSTRUCTED EVERYTHING THE DEMOCRATS TRIED TO DO. What did the Democrats do that fucked up the economy? NOTHING. How could they do anything with Republicans obstructing everything. Republicans screwed this country. They continue to screw it. They are a party of lemming led by awful people.

You are correct, the Republicans did obstruct TARP, until that other Democrat, Bush, convinced them to vote for it. How did that turn out again?

 

[Richard-H]

Well Known: Twitter; Little Known: John Roberts: Overview - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

Yet the public continues to struggle in identifying political figures, foreign leaders and even knowing facts about key government policies. Only about a third of Americans (34%) know that the government’s bailout of banks and financial institutions was enacted under the Bush administration. Nearly half (47%) incorrectly say that the Troubled Asset Relief Program – widely known as TARP – was signed into law by President Obama.

Even fewer (28%) are able to identify John Roberts as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. And just 19% know that David Cameron is the new prime minister of Great Britain.

A large majority of Americans (73%) know that Congress did pass a major health care reform bill this year. Though health care dominated the public’s news interest most weeks during the lengthy debate over the legislation, 14% say Congress did not pass health care legislation this year and 13% do not know.

Fewer than three-in-ten (28%) correctly identified Roberts as the chief justice of the Supreme Court. More than half (53%) do not know, while small percentages choose other options: former Justice Thurgood Marshall (8%), former Justice John Paul Stevens (6%) and Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (4%).

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This just explains the effectiveness of propaganda is our soceity.

Given the incredible level of ignorance, those who push their views most effectively, whether truthful or false, thru the mechanism of propaganda usually win elections.

Unfortunately, the truth is usually complicated and boring, so simplistic lies work a lot better.

 

[FA_Q2]

With Americans so damn ignorant maybe we should change the way we vote. Give each voter a sheet of paper with a list of the coming openings in government and they can fill in the blanks. Should be interesting