U.S. Voters Prefer Job Creation Over Deficit Cuts, Poll Shows

[struggle4progress]

By Mark Silva - Nov 17, 2010 6:30 AM ET

... Asked about their own priorities, 45 percent of those surveyed support additional spending to stimulate job growth, 32 percent want to see the federal budget deficit reduced, and 17 percent want lower taxes -- even as Congress meets in a lame- duck session to debate the continuation of Bush-era tax cuts ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-17/u-s-voters-prefer-job-creation-over-deficit-cuts-poll-shows.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. I wonder how many actually understood

the implications of their answers.

[OHdem10]

2. Until all our jobless have a job and are paying taxes once again

we will not be able to do serious deficit reduction.

A growing eonomy will automattically cut a big dent
in the deficit. We will still have to make some
sacrifices but you would be amazed at how much a
growing economy reduces the deficts o its own.

When you have approximately 18-20 million Americans
not able to pay taxes this screws up everything.

[billlll]

3. Both can be done at once ------ NO program cuts needed

91% Ike's top tax rate would end Debt in 3 years then fund all our Programs 2 pre-RR levels + higher

Bill Maher keeps repeating this...

Listen up

-Folks at the top DID pay Ike's 91%. When the tax was cut later, revenues dropped. Same happened in the Bush years.

-Job growth then ('48 to '68) was 14%/yr. ..But, on the other hand, tax cuts at the top KILL jobs... Example - look at the bush cuts... Job growth 2%/yr. after bush tax cut in 2001.

REASON: when money gets stuck at the top, it is no longer used to buy factory output. Factories can't sell.. so they close. Jobs vanish. Recession begins.

---Called "underconsumption" or "overproduction"

--Source----
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9545549

Say "I Like Ike". LOL.

Repeat: NO program cuts, NO tax cuts needed.
PS: ZERO unemployment overnight, with the "new WPA" idea of Michael Moore and Robert Reich ( Clinton Secretary of Labor ). For TOTAL employment forever, have a PERMANENT WPA. Go to

http://www.njfac.org

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. That people tend toward very self-destructive short-term thinking is not surprising

We MUST cut the deficit. I certainly agree that we should do so with tax increases, immediately, but it must be cut. The notion that we can run deficits at 7,8,9, or 10% of GDP for any extended period of time without bringing on fiscal and social calamity is just ignorant and lacking any financial literacy.

[treestar]

5. Then they should not have given Congress to the Republicans

[gratuitous]

6. From those results, the way forward is obvious

We need to shovel more money into the pockets of the affluent, cut off any extension of unemployment benefits, drain the Treasury of every last dime, and ship any remaining jobs overseas, or at least the jobs where people actually make stuff.

Everything solved!