Posted on 09/08/2011 10:30:57 AM PDT by flowerplough
...new poll from Pew Research Center and The Washington Post suggests that none of the ideas is a guranteed clear winner in the eyes of the public.
For example, 36 percent of Americans think additional infrastructure spending would do a lot to help the nation’s job situation, while 21 percent think an infrastructure plan wouldn’t do anything at all.
When it comes to cutting taxes on businesses, as many leading Republicans suggest, there’s a similar pattern: 31 percent say it would do a lot to create jobs, while 27 percent think it wouldn’t do anything at all.
It's the same story when people were asked whether budget cuts designed to reduce the deficit would help improve the nation's job situation.
Obama and his would-be Republican challengers, who held a nationally televised debate Wednesday, are turning their focus to jobs after a summer in which Washington was preoccupied by a battle over cutting the federal budget deficit.
But all along, it appears more Americans have been fretting about the job market than the deficit issues.
More than four in 10 Americans said the job situation is the economic problem that worries them the most, according to Pew, while only 2 in 10 said it was the federal budget deficit.
The percentage of people citing job worries has swelled in recent months, as the job market has remained tight and hiring has seemed to slow.
Last month the economy created no jobs, according to a government report issued Friday. That leaves at least 14 million Americans looking for work.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifeinc.today.com ...
Amercians DO see the problems but politicians and idiot liberals, including those in the “news”, do not see the problems.
Simply put: Our companies are now manufacturing overseas, American businesses are taxed and regulated to death, and our banking system is corrupt and FUBAR beyond hope.
“Cab anyone say: REPEAL NAFTA.”
What we really need is to bring back our trade embargo with Communist China. Communist China is not our friend. Communist China is going to go to war with us in the future.
I would much rather trade with Cuba than with Communist China.
Lets open up trade and travel with Cuba, and also bring back the trade and travel embargo restrictions we had on Communist China.
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