Well that’s one way to look at this:

According to the poll, 65 percent say they feel less confident that life for their children’s generation will be better than it was for them.

The poll was taken July 21-24.

Now that’s pretty bad, but look how people responded to the same question when it was asked three months after 9/11/2001.

In December 2001, the last time this question was asked, respondents — by a 49-42 percent margin — said they were confident life would be better for their children.