How the American public views its government
How do we tell Washington how we feel? We show them. We sifted through the top public opinion polls, compiled the results most representative of the nation, prettied them up, and set them to compelling music. We’re trying to get as many people as possible to send the video to Congress. Lawmakers must be shown what the nation thinks of them and their many years of policies that are bankrupting America. Watch the video now send it to your congressman.
Just so you don’t think we’re cherry picking polls, here are the polls featured in the video and many more showing similar public opinion:
“6 out of 10 Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction – Reuters, July 2010”
FACTS:
According to a July Reuters Reuters poll 60% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
An August poll from The Associated Press has the same number.
The RealClearPolitics average for recent polls (as of August 20) has 61.2% saying the country is headed in the wrong direction.
According to a Pollster.Com average (as of August 20), 57.9% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
“43% have a favorable view of the Democratic Party. 36% for the Republican Party. – Gallup, May 2010”
FACTS:
According to a Gallup survey in May, 36% of Americans have a favorable view of the Republican Party, down from 42% in March. 43% have a favorable view of the Democrats, up from 41% in March.
According to a June survey by NBC and The Wall Street Journal only 30% of Americans have a positive view of the Republican party. 42% have a negative view.
According to a July survey by Zogby, 37% of likely voters approve of the job Democrats in Congress are doing. Only 25% approve of the job Republicans are doing.
“Congress’s approval rating has been under 29% consistently for since 2005. — Gallup, 2005-2010”
FACTS:
Of the 60 polls taken by Gallup on Congressional approval since 2005, only 11 have Congressional approval above 29%.
“The same as OJ Simpson’s approval rating a year after his trial. – Gallup, 1995”
FACTS:
The Washington Post: “Three in 10 — 29 percent — of all Americans had a favorable view of Simpson in an October, 1995 Gallup poll.”
“Congress’s approval rating today…19% — Gallup, Aug 2010”
FACTS:
According to a Gallup poll taken August 5-8, only 19% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
According to a Pollster.Com average (as of August 20), 17.1% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
The current RealClearPolitics congressional approval average (as of August 20) is just slightly higher at 20.8%.
The most recent Economist poll (August 14-17) has Congressional approval at 11.4%.
“Nearly half of likely voters think a random selection of people from the phone book would do better than Congress. – Rasmussen, January 2010”
FACTS:
A January 2010 Rasmussen poll found 45% of Americans think random collection of people would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than Congress.
That question was up 12 points from a survey taken by Rasmussen just 15 months earlier.
“86% of Americans say the system of government is broken. – CNN/Opinion Research Corp, February 2010”
FACTS:
According to a February CNN survey, 86% of Americans believe our system of government is broken.
According to a Fox News poll, 63% of registered voters believe the government is so big that it is hurting the country.
In July, the Economist also asked about voters’ trust in government. Only 11.6% of all registered voters trust government to do what is right “all” or “most” of the time. 80.6% of registered voters said the trust government only “some” of the time or never.
Americans are increasingly “angry” at government. According to a poll of adults by ABC News and The Washington Post in June only 2% are enthusiastic about the way government works; 28% are satisfied; 45% are dissatisfied; and 25% are angry.
“The two most important issues to Americans are: jobs [and] the budget deficit — Pew and the National Journal, July 2010”
FACTS:
In July, Pew and The National Journal asked voters how important certain issues are for Congress to tackle. 70% of adults said it was “very” important to tackle the budget deficit – the only issue that received a higher number was the jobs situation (80%).
Pew and The National Journal saw a dramatic shift over the last five months in the number of Americans that would make cutting the budget deficit a higher priority than spending more to stimulate the economy. In February, 47% said they would make cutting the deficit a priority — the same number said they would make spending more to stimulate the economy a priority. In a poll taken in mid-July 51% would give the budget deficit priority while only 40% would make stimulative spending priority.
In July Bloomberg asked adults what is the most important issue facing the country right now. 41% said unemployment/jobs; the deficit and government spending was second with 26%.
“Unemployment has nearly doubled since the end of 2007. — Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010”
FACTS:
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment has increased from 5% in December 2007 to 9.5% in July 2010.
“53% think we’d be better off without the stimulus. — Time, July 2010”
FACTS:
According to Time, 53% of adults think the U.S. would be better off if the federal government had not spent the money. Only 38% said the country is better off with the stimulus.
Most Americans don’t believe the stimulus has helped the economy. In July, the Economist found only 28.9% of registered voters believed the stimulus had helped the economy; 51.9% of registered voters said it had not.
According to a July Fox News poll, 43% of registered voters believe the economy would be the same if the stimulus had not been passed.
According to a July poll by Rasmussen, 43% of likely voters believe the stimulus hurt the economy; 29% say it helped.
“67% oppose a new stimulus. — Time, July 2010”
FACTS:
Also according to Time, two-thirds of voters oppose a new stimulus.
“66% believe government wastes “a lot” of our tax dollars. — Center for American Progress, August 2010”
FACTS:
According to a July poll of adults by the Center for American Progress, 66% of Americans believe the federal government wastes “a lot” of what Americans pay in taxes.
“A majority believes we should [cut spending to stimulate the economy]. — Democracy Corps, June 2010
FACTS:
In June, Democracy Corps asked likely voters about the policies they thought would best stimulate the economy and create jobs. 50% agreed the best way to get the economy moving again and create jobs was to “cut” government spending and taxes.
According to Pew Research and The National Journal 34% of Americans believe cutting the budget deficit would help the U.S. jobs situation “a lot”; 39% said it would help “a little.”
I peraonally agree with everything that I have read on this site and whole heartedly agree that the government (Obama) is leading this expedition. I also believe that his number 1 mission in office is to bankrupt this nation – this nation which is the home of the brave and the free (for now). I believe everytime Obama takes another right of ours away, he takes this country deeper and closer to a dictatorship. From his actions, noone can believe for one minute that he loves the United States of America.
Respectfully,
Susan Lovell
I peraonally agree with everything that I have read on this site and whole heartedly agree that the government (Obama) is leading this expedition. I also believe that his number 1 mission in office is to bankrupt this nation – this nation which is the home of the brave and the free (for now). I believe everytime Obama takes another right of ours away, he takes this country deeper and closer to a dictatorship. From his actions, noone can believe for one minute that he loves the United States of America.
Respectfully,
Susan Lovell
It really is time for a reality check in this great country. Our government has not worked for the majority of Americans in decades, rather it has worked for the top 2 to 5 percent and large special interest groups. The Iraq war, a Bush family vendetta, in reality had nothing to do with the war on terror. It has cost thousands of lives and untold billions of dollars. Many economic indicators revealed that the economy was in deep trouble as early as 2004, yet the Bush administration denied this and spun the facts to suit thier goals of empowering the rich even further. The only sure fire way to ensure our elected officials work for us is to outlaw lobbying completely. The entire economic strategy for this country must be overhauled and put back in check by placing the economy back on the gold standard. That way our elected officials cannot spend more than the value of the gold owned America. High tarrifs must be placed on goods imported from other countries since this is exactly what they do with goods exported to them by us. It’s time to level the playing field on a global scale.
It really is time for a reality check in this great country. Our government has not worked for the majority of Americans in decades, rather it has worked for the top 2 to 5 percent and large special interest groups. The Iraq war, a Bush family vendetta, in reality had nothing to do with the war on terror. It has cost thousands of lives and untold billions of dollars. Many economic indicators revealed that the economy was in deep trouble as early as 2004, yet the Bush administration denied this and spun the facts to suit thier goals of empowering the rich even further. The only sure fire way to ensure our elected officials work for us is to outlaw lobbying completely. The entire economic strategy for this country must be overhauled and put back in check by placing the economy back on the gold standard. That way our elected officials cannot spend more than the value of the gold owned America. High tarrifs must be placed on goods imported from other countries since this is exactly what they do with goods exported to them by us. It’s time to level the playing field on a global scale.
While I agree with every thing I read on this website. Believe that the biggest problem we have in this country started when we set out to take GOD out of our government and our country.
While I agree with every thing I read on this website. Believe that the biggest problem we have in this country started when we set out to take GOD out of our government and our country.
No available natural resources, No manufacturing, No paycheck, No financial system, No economy, No tax base, No government, No USA?
All brought to us by the bi-partisan efforts of the Democratic and Republican parties, who are saying NO to us when it comes to the economic prosperity of the majority citizens of our country.
First, our access to the minerals, timber, and grazing on public lands was taken away. Then severe prohibitive restrictions to the extraction of those resources on private properties were enacted. All thanks to the extreme left wing environmental movement of the Democratic Party.
Then our manufacturing base and our jobs went overseas, thanks then the Republican party, who only represented the “bottom line” interests of the corporate community.
Both parties are responsible for the wrecked economy. All of our money has gone overseas, and now our bankers and politicians are using what amounts to our “tax-credit-score” to indebt us further by borrowing what was once our money from the Communist Chinese Government, which only values our money.
Just whom are the politicians really working for? Is it China, India, and almost any other cheap-slave-labor country, but not the United States?
In the near future our nearly bankrupted government will go the way of the bankrupted and defunct Soviet Union, if we do not turn our irresponsible politicians away from the financial and economic cliff that they are dragging us toward.
We owe nothing to the rest of the world that thinks that we owe them our industries and our jobs. We must bring back our lost jobs and industries to the United States if we want our descendants to live again in a first world economy, not the second world economy that our politicians have thrust upon us, which is rapidly deteriorating to a third-world economy.
No available natural resources, No manufacturing, No paycheck, No financial system, No economy, No tax base, No government, No USA?
All brought to us by the bi-partisan efforts of the Democratic and Republican parties, who are saying NO to us when it comes to the economic prosperity of the majority citizens of our country.
First, our access to the minerals, timber, and grazing on public lands was taken away. Then severe prohibitive restrictions to the extraction of those resources on private properties were enacted. All thanks to the extreme left wing environmental movement of the Democratic Party.
Then our manufacturing base and our jobs went overseas, thanks then the Republican party, who only represented the “bottom line” interests of the corporate community.
Both parties are responsible for the wrecked economy. All of our money has gone overseas, and now our bankers and politicians are using what amounts to our “tax-credit-score” to indebt us further by borrowing what was once our money from the Communist Chinese Government, which only values our money.
Just whom are the politicians really working for? Is it China, India, and almost any other cheap-slave-labor country, but not the United States?
In the near future our nearly bankrupted government will go the way of the bankrupted and defunct Soviet Union, if we do not turn our irresponsible politicians away from the financial and economic cliff that they are dragging us toward.
We owe nothing to the rest of the world that thinks that we owe them our industries and our jobs. We must bring back our lost jobs and industries to the United States if we want our descendants to live again in a first world economy, not the second world economy that our politicians have thrust upon us, which is rapidly deteriorating to a third-world economy.
I whole heartly agree with the above statement! He has it right . The Corporations have left this country for their own profits! and our Jobs that pays the TAXES/wages for Congress and Senate spending..NOw everyone is out of work cause their jobs are overseas, and everyone is trying to get aid from the Govt. And the Govt. come back to us saying they need to raise the taxes…..What every Happen to ” WE THE PEOPLE”? Have to take back the country by placing people in Govt. who what to do a job for this country not themselves! The Old saying that the “People get the goverment they deserve” rings true. We are already bankrupted because we do not manufacture any thing in this country any longer. Hope you got your money and ran when that song came out.. Kiss it good by.
I whole heartly agree with the above statement! He has it right . The Corporations have left this country for their own profits! and our Jobs that pays the TAXES/wages for Congress and Senate spending..NOw everyone is out of work cause their jobs are overseas, and everyone is trying to get aid from the Govt. And the Govt. come back to us saying they need to raise the taxes…..What every Happen to ” WE THE PEOPLE”? Have to take back the country by placing people in Govt. who what to do a job for this country not themselves! The Old saying that the “People get the goverment they deserve” rings true. We are already bankrupted because we do not manufacture any thing in this country any longer. Hope you got your money and ran when that song came out.. Kiss it good by.
Here are two constitutional amendments for making Washington more honest and responsible:
(1) term limits
(2) balanced budget with exception to actual declarations of war
Here are two constitutional amendments for making Washington more honest and responsible:
(1) term limits
(2) balanced budget with exception to actual declarations of war
Hey, Ron Phile
You said: “The Iraq war, a Bush family vendetta, in reality had nothing to do with the war on terror. It has cost thousands of lives and untold billions of dollars.” Based on the context, you appear to be stating this as a fact. Something akin to oh, let’s say “you can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear” or, “the moon is not made of green cheese”, or my personal favorite: “you can’t get blood from a turnip”, whatever that means.
While I can’t dispute the facts that it HAS “cost lives and billions”, how do you come by this other knowledge? How could you possibly know for sure that this is true? This whole “posting things on public forum blogs as facts” is apparently a trickier business than I thought. Is it safe to say that you’ve been spending time down on “the ranch” & chatting with the Georges? Have you spent time serving as a cabinet member? Was Bush really the national one-ruler, the King of America? Do you seriously believe that every lacky in DC conceded to just giving free license to “spoiled little George Bush” to go have his “vendetta war”? Or is it possible that a collective group of people actually sat & pondered the long & short term consequences of a potentially protracted combat operation in the Middle East? Maybe? Now don’t get me wrong, I’d say it might not be too much of a stretch to believe that Bush II was just another aristocratic thug, albeit not so unlike so many before him, but maybe there are more reliable sources for information besides Oliver Stone’s movies.
To quote you again: “Many economic indicators revealed that the economy was in deep trouble as early as 2004, yet the Bush administration denied this and spun the facts to suit thier goals of empowering the rich even further.” I love how the first thing that you guys come up with when there are very glaring problems with the economy, is “blame it on the Bush-es!” Shall we go back in time? Pick a year, nay a decade, and then pick a president you don’t hapen to like (or is the OPPOSING party to yours). Shall we blame Bush’s economic challenges on Clinton? Or Carter? Or Ford? Shall we blame Reagan’s on Nixon? Should we blame Vietnam on Eisenhower? I mean, how far should we go back for a good finger-pointing? Is it prudent? Is it useful? And please tell me you aren’t suggesting that the Imam-Obama is a better option?
I presume that you are not terribly wealthy. Neither am I. Or maybe you ARE wealthy? However, it sounds like you have disdain for “the rich”? I have to wonder why? I certainly believe in being charitible, even with my meager rations, but if I WERE rich, I wouldn’t necessarily see a problem with being even richer. I am not rich because I have not endeavored long enough or tiringly enough at creating wealth LEGALLY! Perhaps from lack of knowledge, or effort, or both. It appears to be a bit easier if you’re a crook, but for me that price is too high.
I considered suggesting that Washington & Jefferson could never have imagined that we would have arrived at this point in America, but then I think they knew. I believe they knew with absolute certainty that if not kept in check along the way that this is precisely where our nation would indeed end up. And that is precisely why they drafted the Constitution in the manner that they did. And to that end, I happen to agree with you that “It really is time for a reality check in this great country.”
Hey, Ron Phile
You said: “The Iraq war, a Bush family vendetta, in reality had nothing to do with the war on terror. It has cost thousands of lives and untold billions of dollars.” Based on the context, you appear to be stating this as a fact. Something akin to oh, let’s say “you can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear” or, “the moon is not made of green cheese”, or my personal favorite: “you can’t get blood from a turnip”, whatever that means.
While I can’t dispute the facts that it HAS “cost lives and billions”, how do you come by this other knowledge? How could you possibly know for sure that this is true? This whole “posting things on public forum blogs as facts” is apparently a trickier business than I thought. Is it safe to say that you’ve been spending time down on “the ranch” & chatting with the Georges? Have you spent time serving as a cabinet member? Was Bush really the national one-ruler, the King of America? Do you seriously believe that every lacky in DC conceded to just giving free license to “spoiled little George Bush” to go have his “vendetta war”? Or is it possible that a collective group of people actually sat & pondered the long & short term consequences of a potentially protracted combat operation in the Middle East? Maybe? Now don’t get me wrong, I’d say it might not be too much of a stretch to believe that Bush II was just another aristocratic thug, albeit not so unlike so many before him, but maybe there are more reliable sources for information besides Oliver Stone’s movies.
To quote you again: “Many economic indicators revealed that the economy was in deep trouble as early as 2004, yet the Bush administration denied this and spun the facts to suit thier goals of empowering the rich even further.” I love how the first thing that you guys come up with when there are very glaring problems with the economy, is “blame it on the Bush-es!” Shall we go back in time? Pick a year, nay a decade, and then pick a president you don’t hapen to like (or is the OPPOSING party to yours). Shall we blame Bush’s economic challenges on Clinton? Or Carter? Or Ford? Shall we blame Reagan’s on Nixon? Should we blame Vietnam on Eisenhower? I mean, how far should we go back for a good finger-pointing? Is it prudent? Is it useful? And please tell me you aren’t suggesting that the Imam-Obama is a better option?
I presume that you are not terribly wealthy. Neither am I. Or maybe you ARE wealthy? However, it sounds like you have disdain for “the rich”? I have to wonder why? I certainly believe in being charitible, even with my meager rations, but if I WERE rich, I wouldn’t necessarily see a problem with being even richer. I am not rich because I have not endeavored long enough or tiringly enough at creating wealth LEGALLY! Perhaps from lack of knowledge, or effort, or both. It appears to be a bit easier if you’re a crook, but for me that price is too high.
I considered suggesting that Washington & Jefferson could never have imagined that we would have arrived at this point in America, but then I think they knew. I believe they knew with absolute certainty that if not kept in check along the way that this is precisely where our nation would indeed end up. And that is precisely why they drafted the Constitution in the manner that they did. And to that end, I happen to agree with you that “It really is time for a reality check in this great country.”
FIRE ALL THOSE SCUMBAGS IN WASHINGTON. THEY HAVE BEEN THERE TO LONG AND THEY KNOW THE SYSTEM AND THEY USED IT TO THERE ADVENTAGED. THE GREED IN THIS COUNTRY IS BEHOND CONTROL. OBAMA REMINDS ME OF CASTRO WHEN HE TOOK OVER MY COUNTRY OF CUBA. AMERICA WE NEED TO WAKE-UP FAST BEFORE WE LOOSE THIS GREAT COUNTRY. WHO ARE WE TO TELL OTHER COUNTRIES WHAT TO DO IF THEY ARE PUTTING THIS COUNTRY INTO BANKRUPT. THEY KEEP GETTING US INTO WAR TO KEEP THE UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN AND TO KEEP US OCCUPIED. AMERICA THE SCUMBAGS IN WASHINGTON DON’T CARE ABOUT US THEY JUST THEY TO GET RICHER. AND FOR ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE OUT THERE I VOTED FOR THE BROTHER AND I WANT HIM OUT BEFORE HE GETS US INTO A DEEPER HOLE THAT WE CAN’T GET OUT. WE NEED TO HELP THE AMERICA PEOPLE HERE IN THIS COUNTRY AND FORGET OTHER COUNTRY.
FIRE ALL THOSE SCUMBAGS IN WASHINGTON. THEY HAVE BEEN THERE TO LONG AND THEY KNOW THE SYSTEM AND THEY USED IT TO THERE ADVENTAGED. THE GREED IN THIS COUNTRY IS BEHOND CONTROL. OBAMA REMINDS ME OF CASTRO WHEN HE TOOK OVER MY COUNTRY OF CUBA. AMERICA WE NEED TO WAKE-UP FAST BEFORE WE LOOSE THIS GREAT COUNTRY. WHO ARE WE TO TELL OTHER COUNTRIES WHAT TO DO IF THEY ARE PUTTING THIS COUNTRY INTO BANKRUPT. THEY KEEP GETTING US INTO WAR TO KEEP THE UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN AND TO KEEP US OCCUPIED. AMERICA THE SCUMBAGS IN WASHINGTON DON’T CARE ABOUT US THEY JUST THEY TO GET RICHER. AND FOR ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE OUT THERE I VOTED FOR THE BROTHER AND I WANT HIM OUT BEFORE HE GETS US INTO A DEEPER HOLE THAT WE CAN’T GET OUT. WE NEED TO HELP THE AMERICA PEOPLE HERE IN THIS COUNTRY AND FORGET OTHER COUNTRY.
HI A few rants
We keep paying interest to Federal Reserve bankers, we should print our money and our own people should benefit if on interest benefit.
Our leaders attach their own thing to important bills.
Maybe term limits would be better since it cost so much to get elected it’s no wonder some people who might do good can’t get in, when some have had years to acquire their resources.
Welcome those who want to start businesses here to hire our people, not companies here hiring from other countries so they make the extra money.
Congress doesn’t declare war anymore.
The same people lending money for wars are lending money to ones on opposite side.
There are many more ideas people have may we get some in place.
Calvin
HI A few rants
We keep paying interest to Federal Reserve bankers, we should print our money and our own people should benefit if on interest benefit.
Our leaders attach their own thing to important bills.
Maybe term limits would be better since it cost so much to get elected it’s no wonder some people who might do good can’t get in, when some have had years to acquire their resources.
Welcome those who want to start businesses here to hire our people, not companies here hiring from other countries so they make the extra money.
Congress doesn’t declare war anymore.
The same people lending money for wars are lending money to ones on opposite side.
There are many more ideas people have may we get some in place.
Calvin
After reading the above comments, I would have to say it seems that most people do get whats going on, a few are confused ,such as saying blaming the Bush-es is not appropriate…, that’s wrong because, they have a tremendeous amount of blame for a variety of crimes, including an illigal war, that has murdered thousands of people. It is also true that we can blame the last 8 or 9 Administrations, but if you can’t see the bold and outright criminal destruction of our Country from that particular gang, then your eyes are closed, you can’t see some of the picture and not the rest. Many of our Nations leaders have proven to be crooks, that are working for themselves, and their friends, and most defintley not the American people. One of the biggest ways to stop this is to outlaw lobbing ! This practice has brought our Goverment down to the level of money buys what ever you want, and in most cases individual corporations do not care about, or love their Country, I think it is Treason when an individual, and a goverment official broker a deal that destroys an American city or town, for thier own profit, and change regulations that ultimately cause death to Americans, either through lack of medical care, or unregulated dangerous chemicals being poured into our rivers, and lakes. Many Americans claim to be Christian, but their ideals are anything but Christian, they do not realize it is our duty to take care of the poor and sick, any country that does not see that, is not civilized, or in good graces with God. This Country is rich enough to take care of all of it’s needs, and responsibilities, but the money is used on wars for murder and profit, changing us from a Great Super Power, into a fearful war mongoring society that is dying like a cancer. I sure hope we get it before it is to late. United We Stand …Devided We Fall !!!
If we individually don’t start to take responsibility by caring for our nieghbors, spending only what we have and leading the world in peace and prosperity through example and actions. This is not impossible but Americans need to change their attitudes 180 degrees, stop lobbing, Impeach goverment officials for misconduct, and put everyone in jail that breaks the law all the way up to C.E.O.’s. these people are not above the law !
After reading the above comments, I would have to say it seems that most people do get whats going on, a few are confused ,such as saying blaming the Bush-es is not appropriate…, that’s wrong because, they have a tremendeous amount of blame for a variety of crimes, including an illigal war, that has murdered thousands of people. It is also true that we can blame the last 8 or 9 Administrations, but if you can’t see the bold and outright criminal destruction of our Country from that particular gang, then your eyes are closed, you can’t see some of the picture and not the rest. Many of our Nations leaders have proven to be crooks, that are working for themselves, and their friends, and most defintley not the American people. One of the biggest ways to stop this is to outlaw lobbing ! This practice has brought our Goverment down to the level of money buys what ever you want, and in most cases individual corporations do not care about, or love their Country, I think it is Treason when an individual, and a goverment official broker a deal that destroys an American city or town, for thier own profit, and change regulations that ultimately cause death to Americans, either through lack of medical care, or unregulated dangerous chemicals being poured into our rivers, and lakes. Many Americans claim to be Christian, but their ideals are anything but Christian, they do not realize it is our duty to take care of the poor and sick, any country that does not see that, is not civilized, or in good graces with God. This Country is rich enough to take care of all of it’s needs, and responsibilities, but the money is used on wars for murder and profit, changing us from a Great Super Power, into a fearful war mongoring society that is dying like a cancer. I sure hope we get it before it is to late. United We Stand …Devided We Fall !!!
If we individually don’t start to take responsibility by caring for our nieghbors, spending only what we have and leading the world in peace and prosperity through example and actions. This is not impossible but Americans need to change their attitudes 180 degrees, stop lobbing, Impeach goverment officials for misconduct, and put everyone in jail that breaks the law all the way up to C.E.O.’s. these people are not above the law !