To our beloved politicians, media, consultants and officials living in the Beltway Bubble. As well as to the folks on Wall Street who pull their strings:
By a 62 - 32 percent margin, American voters say it's more important to reduce unemployment than to reduce the federal budget deficit.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/...
Let me repeat that for you bubbleites:
By a 2-1 margin, the American people believe unemployment is a more important problem than the budget deficit.
Is that reflected in Congress? In the White House? In the corporate media?
The coverage in that media is not 2-1, in favor of the budget deficit. It's more like 100-1, budget deficit to unemployment.
And the president has merely enabled this disconnect by focusing so much in getting some "grand" budget deficit deal, rather than holding out for a relatively clean increase in the debt ceiling. I can understand why he doesn't want to sign another short-term extension. That will merely keep the issue the dominant concern of the corporate media. But I can't understand why he has played on the Republican side of the field, so to speak.
And speaking of the president, according to this poll, over 1 in 5 liberals do not approve of the job he is doing. That should raise in the triangulating oval office.
But the upshot of this poll result is that once again the main economic concern of the majority of the people is not the main economic concern of the beltway bubble.