Gallup: Approval of Federal Gov’t Hits All-Time Low, Favorable View Ranks Dead Last Among All Industries…
Shocker.
(The Hill) — Americans have a more favorable view of every other industry — including oil and gas — than of the federal government, according to a new poll released Monday.
Only seventeen percent of Americans have a positive view of the federal government.
According to Gallup, this is the first time the federal government has ranked at the bottom of a list of industries, displacing even the oil and gas industry which came in second to last this year.
The poll results highlight the negative opinion of government most voters have indicated in various polls following the controversial debt-ceiling vote in early August. Most polls have focused on Congress overall, or the separate Republican and Democratic parties, while Gallup focused on the image of the government overall.
Americans had a more strongly negative view of the government in this year’s poll than they have since Gallup began polling this question in 2001. In 2001, more Americans had a positive view of the federal government than negative. The government’s favorable rating has fallen since 2004, with a brief reprieve in 2009.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, August 29, 2011, at 12:04 pm | 
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Quite surprised it’s in double digits, right now.
And those 17 percent are those with severe brain damage, affecting the ability to think and reason.
The 17% are public union members
Ehhh… I am going to point something out here that some may not like. If the “Computer Industry” includes “Information Technology”, then I want to pose a question. Do you suppose that those in positions of power (especially in Government Information Systems) are keeping their mouths shut concerning the theft, fraud, pedophilia (remember Mark Foley, although “technically”, the law in DC says 16 year old boys are “consenting adults”), prostitution, agendas, who could expose it because they can see data stored in Government Databases? Or that they are deleting incriminating evidence from those hard drives and backup media on those systems?
There is a clear trend here, in that, the more government involvement, either directly or through regulation, the lower the industry scores.
It’s Bush’s fault.
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′ (WTF)
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-
is it any wonder people are fed up with the frderal gov. . other than the military they are a delusional lazy bunch of parasites who group think that they are the chosen ones that run the world. parasites parasites parasites.
It’s pretty bad when the septic tank cleaning industry rates above the federal government.
Is this in Bloomberg…under “Unexpectedly”?