34% of people blame Obama for the loss of the middle class during the 2000's.

[onehandle]

Morons!
___________

'The biggest culprits in Pew's surveys were Congress, which was blamed "`a lot" by 62% of respondents for middle-class decline, and banks at 54%. More people placed a lot of blame on the George W. Bush administration (44%) than President Obama (34%). Only 8% said the middle class should primarily blame itself for its falling prospects.'

http://www.usatoday.com/money/story/2012-08-22/lost-decade-middle-class-pew-study/57206476/1

[Dawson Leery]

1. This is the same 33% who will vote for any Republican so long as it

costs a victory for the Democrats.
This same 33% believe Obama caused the economic meltdown which occurred do to Shrub's criminal actions.

[RKP5637]

2. IMO probably the bailouts leave a lot of people annoyed, the financial sectors were seen as

constantly showed with zillions of dollars with for most few repercussions. ... some want to place the blame someplace and Obama is a target for them now. It really gets a bit bizarre blaming Obama for Bush and company.

[IDemo]

3. 34% likely also blame him for solar flares, West Nile, and American Idol vote tampering n/t

[JoePhilly]

6. And the drought ... if they believed in Global Warming, they'd now blame him for that too.

[JoePhilly]

4. Same 34% who think the Iraq war was free.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Obama must have been pretty awful

given that 34% believe that he destroyed middle-class income within 2 years!


I'm getting so tired of these kind of "gloom and doom" articles that the media keeps pumping out. They're keeping people depressed and- at least indirectly and partially- trying to pin the blame for 8 years of Republican policies (6 of which the Republicans were fully in charge of the entire national government) on President Obama. BTW $130K is/was considered "middle-class". That looks "rich" to our +/-$70K.

[mmonk]

7. The American people aren't exactly rocket scientists

The world knows that.

[Odin2005]

8. Most Americans are idiots.

[coalition_unwilling]

11. 34% of them are, that's for sure - n/t

[abelenkpe]

9. I blame corporations

globalism and the relentless pursuit of greed.

Whatever...

Lets blame politicians.

[julian09]

10. That is the republican base percentage of voters. nt

[hollysmom]

12. I just don't understand the concept that the economy responds immediately

Like you order something on-line and get it tomorrow or a woman gets pregnant and delivers in one ay.