Most Americans no longer view US as superpower

[Lodhi]

A poll on the eve of Independence Day confirms: More Americans see the nation as less powerful and more vulnerable. They want leaders to focus less on the world and more on challenges at home.

According to the poll, three-fourths of Americans say economic weakness poses a bigger danger to the U.S. than do national security threats. csmonitor.com


HIGHLIGHTS


The poll, released by Time magazine and the Aspen Institute, indicates that Americans want their leaders to focus more on domestic challenges and less on foreign issues. economictimes.indiatimes.com

Two out of three Americans taking part in a poll do not believe that the United States is the sole remaining superpower in the world. economictimes.indiatimes.com

The poll - which finds that more than two-thirds of Americans consider the last 10 years to have been a decade of decline for America - is in sync with other surveys of American opinion in recent months. csmonitor.com





FACTS & FIGURES

In May, a Pew Research Centre poll found that majorities in every partisan group of the population including, for the first time in the decade of 9/11, conservative Republicans agreed with the statement that the US ‘should pay less attention to problems overseas and concentrate on problems here at home.

Last month, President Obama declared, in announcing his plans for a troop drawdown in Afghanistan said, “America, it is time to focus on national-building here at home.”



Other recent Pew polls have found Americans' "mind-our-own-business" thinking at its highest level since the end of the Cold War. today.msnbc.msn.com

This is while, the majority of people in the U.S., China, India, South Korea and Australia believe that the U.S. will in the future lose its prestigious status as the world's only superpower, according to a U.S. and international public opinion study. nakba.co.uk

According to the study, which the CCGA conducts biennially, Americans seem to accept the rise of China with only 29 percent saying the U.S. should actively work to limit the growth of China's power. nakba.co.uk

This is while, at the start of World War I, the U.S. standing army including reserves was smaller than Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria or Romania. Even by the end of WWI, the U.S. army was only ranked fifth in total size. axisandallies.org

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-07-04/news/29735980_1_american-superpower-pew-research-center-poll

http://thetimesofpakistan.com/2011/07/04/us-no-longer-a-superpower/

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/187553.html

 

[jimz84]

America is no-more a superpower---American citizens claim

 

[Optimistical]

Re: Most American think US no longer a superpower: Time magazine poll

This is what you call a nation living and accepting ground realities! It's only the US govt and its foreign policies (including its media) which will be the cause of its downfall.

 

[Imranpak]

Re: Most American think US no longer a superpower: Time magazine poll

There is 20% unemployment in the USA with the economy on its knees. American troops are sitting ducks for other armies around the world should a massive war erupt...

The state of the USA today is similar to the British before the last world war.

 

[BrotherKantu]

Re: Most American think US no longer a superpower: Time magazine poll

Here I see the similarities. Just before USSR was going to collapse, its eastern most republics started to see revolutions. Same thing is happening where ever USA have influence, like Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen and so on.

I very much feel America is on the brink of collapse. People in power know inside story. Only we, the people will be the last to know. I see India's attitude changing as well. LaLa cannot sleep probably.

 

[karachiwala]

Re: Most American think US no longer a superpower: Time magazine poll

Stimulus cost $278,000 per job

If you got a job through Obama’s stimulus bill, maybe you should have asked the president for a personal check instead.
A study released by the Weekly Standard says that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has cost $666 billion so far to keep or create 2.38 million jobs.
The Weekly Standard got out their calculators after the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers released that figure on Friday, however, and came to the conclusion that the costly legislation was perhaps not the best idea.
"That's a cost to taxpayers of $278,000 per job," reads the latest issue of the DC-based magazine. "In other words, the government could simply have cut a $100,000 check to everyone whose employment was allegedly made possible by the 'stimulus,' and taxpayers would have come out $427 billion ahead."
The White House isn’t contesting the math, but says it’s a silly way of looking at the aftermath of the Act.
Liz Ozhorn, the spokesperson behind the stimulus, says that there was more to the Recovery Act than just job creation. In a statement to Fox News, Ozhorn says the bill was “also an investment in American infrastructure, education and industries that are critical to America's long-term success and investment in the economic future of America's working families."
In addition to funding salaries, it also went towards construction materials and new factories.
Even still, the $666 billion did indeed come from taxpayer pockets, and if the Recovery Act wasn’t enacted only to create jobs, that was certainly a big part of it. Not only are there 2.38 million jobs created, however, but the unemployment rate itself has gone up since the Act began. The rate was at only 7.1 when the Act was started and is now at over 9 percent.
"If you look at unemployment, unemployment has gone up by 1.9 million Americans,” said Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) last week. "So this is not like a situation where you said, 'I inherited a bad economy, but I'm gradually making it better.' He's making it worse."
The White House says, though, they the Recovery Act could have helped keep or make as many as 3.6 million jobs by the end of this past March and that the 2.38 million statistic is at the bottom end of their estimate.
Since Obama entered the White House the national debt has increased by almost $5 trillion.

 

[gazoomartian]

Re: Most American think US no longer a superpower: Time magazine poll

This is what you call a nation living and accepting ground realities! It's only the US govt and its foreign policies (including its media) which will be the cause of its downfall.

No one in Pak dislikes Americans, its the free masonic govt and its policy that we hate

 

[gazoomartian]

Re: Most American think US no longer a superpower: Time magazine poll

There is 20% unemployment in the USA with the economy on its knees. American troops are sitting ducks for other armies around the world should a massive war erupt...

The state of the USA today is similar to the British before the last world war.

Pentagon has done drill practice of Martial Law because they do not know how to rule in uniform

when US is down, I hope Texas separates because Texas signed to join the union with provision that they can cease from the union any time if they desire


Same story is for Rhode Island, and Hawaii, and probably Alaska

 

[mrcritic]

Re: Most American think US no longer a superpower: Time magazine poll

interesting!

 

[InsafianPTI]

and they are trying their best to create another monster which would be worse than america i.e. IndiaThey are too busy at the moment to downplay china and support india through hook or by crook while we are busy fighting each other. We always wakeup when its too late.

Its hardly a good news for us, cus if america is not a super power than there would be another one and that another one is definitely not pakistan or any other islamic country, so i'm so not looking forward to this. I don't know why people are celebrating this without bloody using their brains.