Thread: Poll: 13 percent approve of Congress

Poll: 13 percent approve of Congress



By REID J. EPSTEIN | 8/16/11 6:49 AM EDT Updated: 8/16/11 7:32 AM EDT

Once again, Congress has reached a new low.

Only 13 percent of Americans approve of Congress, tied for the worst on record, according to a Gallup Poll conducted over the weekend. Eighty-four percent of Americans disapprove, the poll found. That figure is a record high.

The last time Congress rated only 13 percent approval was in December 2010, during last year’s lame duck session.

The lame congressional approval ratings are slightly lower among independents, reaching 9 percent, compared to 15 percent among Democrats and 17 percent among Republicans. The 9 percent approval rating for independents is the lowest since Gallup began measuring congressional approval in 1974.

The poll results follows a record low approval rating for President Barack Obama, who scored a 39 percent approval rating in the pollster’s daily tracking numbers this week, the first time in his presidency that he recorded a number lower than 40 percent.

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The buzzards have definitely come home to roost.

There is a quick solution though, and it all focuses on $ M - O - N - E - Y $

In both the Congress and the Senate, these elected officials LEAVE OFFICE much more wealthy than when they go in. What business or corporation do you know of where the CEOs have the fiscal authority to sit around a table and with nothing more than a VOICE VOTE, GIVE THEMSELVES THEIR OWN PAY RAISES?

The corruption in our government is worse than any time since the Civil War.

The solution here is quick and simple:

• REDUCE AND CAP ALL CONGRESSIONAL AND SENATE PAY TO THE AVERAGE NATIONAL PER CAPITA INCOME

• ELIMINATE *ALL* CONGRESSIONAL AND SENATE RETIREMENTS

• ELIMINATE *ALL* FINANCIAL CONGRESSIONAL AND SENATE *MONETARY INCENTIVES*

13%???? Yet they still get elected