Obama’s Record Low Job Approval: 2012 Last Chance to Fix What’s Wrong with USA

Conservatism 101: D.I.Y. Political Education

Barack Obama has set a record, surpassing Jimmy Carter as the modern president with the worst job approval ratings. Meanwhile, the political election season is almost upon us–and Da Tool guy warns that this is the “last chance we have to straighten out our nation before it becomes something none of us will recognize.” Many readers will agree. Find out exactly what has led to this dire assessment in this week’s Conservatism 101.

CIVICS FOR THE MASSES

According to a story in U.S. News and World report, President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has fallen below former President Jimmy Carter’s rating for the first time:

President Obama’s slow ride down Gallup’s daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.

Since March, Obama’s job approval rating has hovered above Carter’s, considered among the 20th century’s worst presidents, but today Obama’s punctured Carter’s dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama’s job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter’s 51 percent.

Couple this with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s recent rant after the collapse of the “debt super-committee:”

“I was angry this weekend, listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure of the supercommittee, and that the president knew it was doomed for failure, so he didn’t get involved. Well, then what the hell are we paying you for?” Christie said in Camden, N.J. ” ‘It’s doomed for failure, so I’m not getting involved’? Well, what have you been doing, exactly?”

So let me ask this, just what are we paying him for? To play golf? To apologize to the rest of the world for being … well … us?

We’ve now had three years of his abysmal policies and what has it gotten us? Unemployment remains well above 9 percent according to government numbers and is probably closer to 15 or 16 percent when you factor in those who have given up looking and those who have accepted part-time work because it’s all they can find. More and more regulations are heaped upon business until owners and managers are afraid to make a move because it might mean bureaucrats stepping in to shut them down. He’s shoved a health care law down the throats of the American people that a clear majority thought was a bad idea — and is proving to be as more and more of it gets implemented.

The misery index is back and people are feeling more and more hopeless.

It’s hard not to.

Everywhere you look the news is bad. The American economy is fragile at best, the European economy is in free-fall and the insanity at home leaves you wondering what in the world happened to your country.

Between increasing federal intrusion in every part of our personal lives — First Lady Michelle Obama bullying fast food joints into serving “healthy” food anyone? — to the twits in the Occupy Movement demanding trillions in new spending while complaining about federal buyouts and whining about their student loan debt the future seems bleak. (And while we’re at it, where were these yo-yo’s parents when they decided to spend tens of thousands of dollars on master’s degrees in things like “advanced puppetry?” No, I’m not kidding, I wish I were.)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — this is the last chance we have to straighten out our nation before it becomes something none of us will recognize. If we do not right the ship now we will never have another chance. It can still be done, but it means pain for everyone. Entitlements are going to have to be cut. Spending across the board. We need a flatter tax structure. That doesn’t mean raising taxes on the wealthy. It means seeing to it that the 49 percent of Americans who currently pay no income tax are paying something. We have to quit paying attention to the do-nothing Luddites in the environmental movement who are stifling innovation and job growth. We must muzzle the federal bureaucracy which is destroying American small business and driving the major corporations overseas. Above all, we must break Congress and the Executive Branch to the leash by reminding them they hold their power from us and not as some sort of divine right.

The primary season is just a few weeks away, I urge everyone to look for candidates who can do the above and vote for them. The American people can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines minding their own business — or we will cease to exist in any form our forefathers would recognize, and deservedly so.

by DaToolGuy
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DaToolGuy is a small town journalist with big time dreams. He’s spent his entire adult life laboring in the obscurity he actually deserves. But he’ll take the opportunity to show off when it comes.

DaToolGuy writes regularly at View from Flyover Country.

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