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Poll: Voters Rank Jobs as Nation’s Top Priority
Some 56 percent of those surveyed in a poll released today say Congress and the president should work on jobs this year and 48 percent say those jobs should be in manufacturing. When asked whether Congress and the president should focus on the federal budget deficit or jobs, 67 percent say jobs, according to the poll conducted by the Mellman Group and Ayres, McHenry & Associates for the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
A stunning—and distressing—60 percent also say they think the next generation will be economically worse off. Only 10 percent said the next generation would be better off.
The poll quotes a Republican woman in New Hampshire who says:
The people that work in manufacturing have lost their jobs because most of that work is now done in other countries. You are going to have some people with really terrific jobs and…a mass of people still without jobs…income and benefits.
It seems the public knows what most lawmakers in Washington, D.C., don’t. Pointing to anemic job growth in May and June and a GDP report due out tomorrow that’s not looking good, the Washington Post today includes this:
“The U.S. economic picture for the first half of 2011 will not be a pretty one,” Gregory Daco, principal U.S. economist for IHS Global Insight, said in a report. “One will remember the slowdown in the manufacturing sector, a bounce back in the unemployment rate, weak housing, poor confidence, and the debt-ceiling debacle.”
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Jobs are number one.
Those who work and earn a slary spend their money and create more jobs.
Tax cuts for the rich make the richer. They put their money into makiing more money with fewer workers.
Well, KK, I think OUR ECONOMY is number one, and our economy MUST be managed so as to provide living wages and decent benefits and to prevent GLOBALIZATION from destroying our local economies nationally.
Of course, worker protections and consumer protections are components to our economy that must be rationally implemented.
I think that if our economy is oriented to IMPROVING our national living standard, that businesses large and small can do quite well. But when the greed and tyranny of “the takers” (i.e. The Establishment) rule, then our economy become sick, our people suffer, and our nation becomes weak.
Just WHOSE SIDE is The Establishment on, when they want to knock holes in the hull of our national ship by looking only after their own interests? Their Establishment policies are worse than hull-rot ! ! ! !
Unfortunately, it is not voter’s who decide what the ‘nation’s’ priorities are, it is the superrich who own the politicians and the media, and control ‘debate’ and hire the lobbyists who write the laws and who decide who gets to run for office and who does not. The rich have always determined the priorities for the government, which explains Vietnam, the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, Drug laws, our racist system of public and increasingly private prisons, the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and our world isolation for continuing to arm Israel and apologize for their endless illegal occupation and oppression of the West Bank and Gaza.
At the present time, you are correct, Williamson! BUT, that is only because our population disdains participating in Democracy, which is the only way that Democracy can exist!
All of What you talk about is the direct result of our public not giving a damn about the aspect of public responsibility to PARTICIPATE in the political processes! Like children, they just sit there and let the abusive political system continue abusing them!
Nothing will change until the public DEMANDS their ownership of our government, which is what Democracy is all about! INSTEAD they let the commercial and wealthy interests OWN our government as if we are the children and The Establishment and government are our daddies and mommy!
peple are paying to go to the school to get a job and then realize
is not job there and have a huge debt to pay back.