The Washington Post has a story today (5/19/10)that leads with this:
With voters up in arms over the mounting federal debt, congressional Democrats are growing increasingly queasy about adding to the nation’s tab,with some arguing that additional spending to prop up the economy and help the unemployed should be paid for or abandoned.
The headline–“Democrats Queasy About Deficit Spending”–seems true enough, in the sense that reporter Lori Montgomery quotes some Democrats saying as much. But are voters really “up in arms” over the debt? That’s not borne out by polls of voters’ concerns. If you check the recent surveys at Polling Report, the debt/deficit ranks well behind jobs and the economy when people are asked to rank the top problem facing the country. The spread is 49-5 percent from CBS/NYTimes, 47-15 from Fox and 35-20 from NBC/WSJ.
Some of the spending that apparently makes some Democrats “queasy” is focused, as the Post acknowledges, on jobs.It wouldbe avery different article if it pointed out thatdealing with this problems is thevoters’ chief concern.
Me thinks maybe its WaPo that is revolting?
The deficit that should scare the hell out of us is the utter lack of humanity shown by the “leadership” of this country here and abroad, don’t you think?
I guess that’s stating the literally bleeding obvious.
Jobs are our concern. why isn’t it Corporate America’s too? These are hard times, times to put Patriotism ahead of profits. If every company would stop firing we’d stop the jobless rate. There has not been ONE corporation that has said they will hire people now to help the country and put patriotism ahead of profits. Corporate America has turned its back on it’s country in its time of need. Guess it’s time for workers to stop buying from companies that keep firing. Let’s see how they handle buyless rate!
Stimulus spending is needed to solve the most important issue, unemployment. The Bush tax cuts should be rolled back on high income individuals. Certainly, Rush Limbaugh who is paid 50 million dollars a year could pay more income taxes and never miss the money. He is on his second eight year contract that will yield him, along with his 100 million signing bonus, 500 million dollars in the next eight years. At the end of that contract, he will have been paid a billion dollars over sixteen years of running his mouth on radio. But that is only if he lives to complete his contract, however, his cigar smoking and obesity may not allow that to happen.
Somehow i think the head should read, “Citizens IN revolt over…. “. It is revolting when our language is abused by people who should know better.
What does our future hold under unregulated “capitalism”? Gene Roddenberry’s “value” based model, or Soylent Green?
My self-worth is at it’s lowest point, and I feel like I’ve already been chewed up and spit out by the system…
I thought maybe they meant the revolting tea party peeps.
The corporate media is trying to get us all softened up with how horrible the deficit is, without pointing out how our violent occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan are devastating the economy… they’re moving toward “entitlement reform” i.e., gutting Social Security & Medicare. Obama is right in the middle of this insidious effort, what with his “deficit commission” & his palling around with billionaire hedge fund crook Peter G. Peterson, whose sole mission in life is to destroy (what’s left of) the social safety net.
I was an idiot for working on Obama’s campaign. Never again.
We Sovereign People don’t protest deficits being spent efficaciously on US, but that FOOLISHLY on WAR, Wall Street-walkers and Self(ish)-Insurance DEFORM Companies!