Stay clear of these folks

Holy cow! A new CNN poll shows that 75 percent of adult Americans think that the country is pretty much in the toilet. The economy, the wars, the healthcare system, the environment. You name it, Americans are convinced that we're in a very bad way.

But not all of them. What shocked me is that a whopping 25 percent of those polled DON'T think the country is going to hell in a hand basket. That means that one out of every four folks you drive next to, sit across from in a restaurant or get your hair cut with thinks that things are really pretty good.

Please, tell me one of those folks isn't my physician or car mechanic or anyone who I depend on to think clearly before fixing my furnace or even frying my chicken. What could possibly be right in a country where we take trillions of taxpayer dollars to give to the rich banks and mortgage companies so they will continue to loan money to other rich people so we can all keep our jobs and our puny IRAs?

What's right in a country where we send hundreds of billions of dollars to fix and build roads in Iraq, while they can't even manage to spend the oil money they're raking in, and we can't afford to fix our own crumbling bridges?

Hopefully, we won't have to wait until 100 percent of adult Americans can see how bad things are before they start to change.