In a sign that Americans are waking up to the snake oil being peddled by our president, Rasmussen's latest poll shows that the majority of Americans simply just don't buy the rhetoric being spewed by the empty suit in the Oval Office:
During his State-of-the-Union address Wednesday night, President Obama spoke about a deficit of trust between the American people and political leaders. New Rasmussen Reports polling on the president's speech shows just how deep that trust deficit has become.
The president in the speech declared that his administration has cut taxes for 95% of Americans. He even chided Republicans for not applauding on that point. However, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that taxes have been cut for 95% of Americans. Most (53%) say it has not happened, and 26% are not sure. Other polling shows that nearly half the nation's voters expect their own taxes to go up during the Obama years.
The president also asserted that "after two years of recession, the economy is growing again." Just 35% of voters believe that statement is true, while 50% say it is false.
Obama claimed that steps taken by his team are responsible for putting two million people to work "who would otherwise be unemployed." Just 27% of voters say that statement is true. Fifty-one percent (51%) say it's false.
As for tax cuts, Obama hasn't cut one tax. He's given tax credits that have been subsidized by the taxpayer to themselves and to those who don't pay income taxes, resulting in a net loss to the economy. The fact that only 21% of likely voters claim they have received a tax cut credit is because the credit was so small and spread out over such a long period, that 79% didn't notice the difference in their paychecks!
Some would also call the extension of these credits to those who don't pay income taxes welfare. I also like to refer to it as a transfer of wealth with the government acting as the middle man. Either way, these credits do nothing to stimulate the economy and never will.
Speaking of the economy, it's hard to believe it's growing when double digit unemployment is going nowhere but up and initially conspicuous GDP numbers are getting revised repeatedly well after the fact. As for creating jobs, even Obama's own advisors can't get their job numbers straight and sound like a bunch of untruthful weasels that didn't get their fibs in order before their respective interviews.
And oh yeah, true unemployment at close to 22% nationwide doesn't exactly instill a sense of a pending economic utopia by any means, Mr. President.
Of course, fact check pieces that expose ten lies in your State of the Union speech and a very noticeable unprecedented conviction in telling such lies doesn't do much to minimize the "deficit of trust" either champ.
