Americans move government itself to No. 1 on their list of concerns - Investors.com:
"You may recall that Barack Obama campaigned and entered the Oval Office 2,243 days ago confidently asserting that government — his government — could fix pretty much any problem facing the country.
You may also recall the trillion-dollar stimulus spending package that was going to start producing hundreds of thousands of jobs each month in the summer of 2010.
You may also recall how the good ship ObamaCare was going to right the nation's health care system by covering more people at less cost while saving families $2,500 each and allowing them to keep their doctor if they wanted.
And so much more.
Here we are after so many failed fixes and the partial-term senator is older but talking no wiser, recently proposing that the federal government underwrite two years of free college for everyone.
...And Obama seems to have turned to entertaining himself more, spending $2 million in taxpayer money this week to fly to Los Angeles for an appearance on a late-night show.
And also, of course, to raise some money for the party.
This afternoon he'll stop for a photo op at a veterans hospital in Phoenix.
...In fact, voters now list government itself as the biggest problem facing the country.
After lagging lower on the list of the country's concerns chronicled by a Gallup survey of 1,027 adults, government has recently surged to the top worry, 18%, up one point from February.
The government, economy and unemployment/jobs have been the dominant problems on the minds of surveyed Americans for more than a year now.
...While dissatisfaction with government is by no means a new issue to the American people," said the Gallup analysis, "it has not in recent months been as clearly the leading problem as it is now.""
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