I'm one of the 10%, and the reason i;m satisfied is because I feel that the failed policies of G.W. are being unwound and we are starting the slow climb back to a sound a future. Health care reform, while far from perfect, must be enacted. The fact is its chocking our prosperity by sucking dollars out of the real economy since a large percent of the health care cost is in administrative costs. Oil is another issue that is also sucking dollars out of our economy, although this time its shipping them to Iran and Venezuela, and its not just the oil we buy, if we were to get off of oil and make alternatives profitable we could then work on creating trade policies and diplomatic pushes to export the technology that we create so that other nations (Western Europe, China, India) can obtain energy indepencen. Under the current administraation, i feel these goals are slowly beeing moved forward through increased R&D investment and tax incentives geared toward energy independence. I also believe that we have a coherent policy now in foreign policy in which we will attempt to secure American interests while antagonizing our friends as little as possible.
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It’s Just a Flesh Wound
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One of the first people I met was "satisfied," but she'd also been drinking that afternoon and wouldn't let me use her name. (I directed her to the closest bar.) Later I found a really sweet couple satisfied with the way things are going in America, because they live in Canada. Then I talked to Warren DeSmidt, 65, of Cedarburg, Wis., who quite convincingly told me he thinks the economic mess is just "a bump in the road … and order will be restored." Lynda Race, of Arlington, Va., who is "almost 50," boiled it down: "I love America. Where else would you be more satisfied?" By the end of my interviews, I agreed with their criticisms of the media and with the fact that Chris Matthews has totally lost it.
I'm betting the NEWSWEEK poll's 10 percenters are like the ones I met on Pennsylvania Avenue: überoptimists who see this financial-core meltdown as "just a flesh wound," like the Black Knight in Monty Python's "Holy Grail" who keeps fighting after King Arthur lops off his arms and legs. "I've had worse," the knight says. So has the United States, and maybe that's what the "satisfieds" understand that the rest of us don't.
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