In a post-financial crisis world, the lack of viable international leadership is potentially troubling. In 2013, the WEF believes, this breakdown of international coordination will go increasingly local: in such a world, governments will focus more on their domestic agendas, which will create new risks in and of itself. Most importantly, the growing vulnerability of elites makes effective public and private leadership that much more difficult to sustain.
Leaders of all kinds are becoming more vulnerable to their constituents, generating more reactive and short-term governance. Whether one looks at the dismal approval ratings of the U.S. Congress or the impact that more open flows of information is having on the Chinese ruling elite, it is clear that people are becoming more and more uninspired by their governments. When it comes to unemployment, the widening disparity of wealth, or environmental degradation, highly complex or even intractable issues set politicians up for failure in the eyes of their constituents. Under performance erodes elites’ legitimacy, making it that much harder for them to lead effectively. Against this backdrop, a host of key 2013 risks and opportunities takes shape.
A new poll shows that Congress is less popular than carnies, root canals and colonoscopies, but more popular than the ebola virus, meth labs and gonorrhea.
Those findings are in a Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released Tuesday showed that 9 percent of the respondents held a favorable opinion of Congress, while 85 percent held an unfavorable view.
“We all know Congress is unpopular,” said Dean Debnam, PPP president. “But the fact that voters like it even less than cockroaches, lice and Genghis Kahn really shows how far its esteem has fallen with the American public over the last few weeks.”
On the bright side, Congress came out of the survey in higher standing than North Korea, the Kardashian family, and actress Lindsay Lohan, as well as Cuba’s Fidel Castro and former Sen. John Edwards.
On the not-so-bright side, it lost out in the popularity contest to the rock band Nickelback, real estate magnate Donald Trump, NFL replacement refs and France.
The survey of 830 voters was performed between Jan. 3 and Jan. 6 and has a 3.4 percent margin of error. The results of the poll can be found here.
Ron Paul, in his historic farewell speech to Congress this week, asked 32 thought-provoking questions addressed to his fellow Americans.It’s very clear upon examination of these questions that something is very wrong with our government.
Below are his questions:
Why are sick people who use medical marijuana put in prison?
Why does the federal government restrict the drinking of raw milk?
Why can’t Americans manufacturer rope and other products from hemp?
Why are Americans not allowed to use gold and silver as legal tender as mandated by the Constitution?
Why is Germany concerned enough to consider repatriating their gold held by the FED for her in New York? Is it that the trust in the U.S. and dollar supremacy beginning to wane?
Why do our political leaders believe it’s unnecessary to thoroughly audit our own gold?
Why can’t Americans decide which type of light bulbs they can buy?
Why is the TSA permitted to abuse the rights of any American traveling by air?
Why should there be mandatory sentences – even up to life for crimes without victims – as our drug laws require?
Why have we allowed the federal government to regulate commodes in our homes? Continue reading →
Waaaaaahhhh … I wanna bomb Iran but all I get is Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Gaza and Syria … Waaaaaahhhh.’
How long are we going to stand for it?
Rothschild Zionism is not a race or a people; it is a political philosophy in its public expression and at its core a global secret society with its agents in government and dictating to government the world over. It does not work for the best interests of Jewish people. Its goal is the enslavement of the global population – including the Jewish people that it falsely claims to represent.
The Rothschild secret society networks also control the United States, Canada, Britain, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and so many others in every continent. This is why you never see the United States and Britain criticise, condemn or vote against Israel and rarely does this happen elsewhere among western governments.
Is the Rothschild-controlled US government going to criticise and condemn the Rothschild fiefdom of Israel? Or is Rothschild-controlled Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Of course not. This is why they never do.
Netanyahu
You only have to observe the sickening sight of the members of the United States Congress, with springs attached to their arses, giving Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu standing ovation after standing ovation when he makes a speech before them. They boinged to their feet 29 times in 50 minutes in 2011 – a standing ovation about every 100 seconds.
Netanyahu ~ ‘We will continue to take billions every year from the American people thanks to criminals like you who we have on the payroll and in our pockets.’
