{"id":268,"date":"2010-05-22T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:30","slug":"why-are-americans-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/opinions-on-politics-culture-society\/why-are-americans-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are American&#8217;s Angry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re a right winger, a left-winger, a progressive, regressive, or even *gasp* an independent\/centrist\/middle-of-the-roader&#8211;heck, enven if you&#8217;re a fence-sitter&#8211;I bet, like me, you&#8217;re mad as hell at the state of our union.<\/p>\n<p>1 ) Not enough good paying jobs of any sort to go around for people who want to work.<\/p>\n<p>2 ) Too many illegal aliens, a lot of them bad apples, entering this country.<\/p>\n<p>3 ) Too many illegal aliens willing to work for low wages in this country making it a boon to employers who want cheap labor.<\/p>\n<p>4 ) Too many employers getting away with hiring illegal aliens, abusing them, and paying them wages a dog couldn&#8217;t eat on.<\/p>\n<p>5 ) Too many Wall Streeters making money by trading off American livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>6 ) Too many media moguls slanting everything to benefit their bottom line instead of doing their jobs of reporting unslanted news.<\/p>\n<p>7 ) Too many stupid laws that concern things best left up to the individual.<\/p>\n<p>8 ) Too many good laws being ignored and violated because it pays somebody&#8217;s bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>9 ) Criminals walking around free with open access to guns and explosives while law-abiding citizens are denied the right to carry weapons.<\/p>\n<p>10 ) Too much focus by elected officials on getting re-elected instead of doing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Add your own below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re a right winger, a left-winger, a progressive, regressive, or even *gasp* an independent\/centrist\/middle-of-the-roader&#8211;heck, enven if you&#8217;re a fence-sitter&#8211;I bet, like me, you&#8217;re mad as hell at the state of our union. 1 ) Not enough good paying jobs of any sort to go around for people who want to work. 2 ) Too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}