http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/10/21/131316/00 Whether you consider it a recession or a "<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/washington/03bush.html">rough patch</a>" (President Bush's favored description from earlier this year), we live in troubling times.  If you're a major public research company, you ask the public if they think the country is going in the right or the wrong direction.   en-us Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:35:54 EST Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:10:53 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/10/21/131316/00#5 A helicopter to shoot some wolves, just so we can eat more moose. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:10:53 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/10/21/131316/00#4 "I got my gun and I got my church.  What all else does a body need?" Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:53:42 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/10/21/131316/00#3 Either current mainstream candidate taking over for Bush would also be the right direction. To me, the time we were heading in the wrong direction was when we were inflating the real estate bubble and firing up the Dow average to obviously overblown levels Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:18:38 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/10/21/131316/00#2 Maybe the poll responders were thinking politically, in which case maybe they were, uh, right. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:56:20 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/10/21/131316/00#1 Even these people who think things are going the right away apparently don't, or at least they don't share the same definition of that that I do.  From the writeup: "Some of the respondents take the view of Paula Fortin who says things are cyclical an Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:35:12 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/