Politics – More than half the voters in an ongoing survey for The Associated Press and Yahoo! News now say the economy and health care are extremely important to them personally
As polls go, they can change from one part of town to another. When people face the possibility of being homeless or going hungry, the economy becomes an issue.
When a person loses a $20 an hour job and has to take a $7.50 an hour job, the economy becomes an issue! It seems that changes in the world impact different people in many different ways.
Maybe the issue should be save America and our Constitution!
Thanks engineer!
I see many things that concern me. Not the least of continuing of a war that is not needed or financially feasible. The continued erosion of the dollars strength. A sliding economy in a service based economy that has no real structure to support it. A return of the class based society the wealthy long for. A government that is stealing away our futures for the benefits of the worldwide corporate ideology.
The continued breakdown of communications between the political parties. This is leading to the very destruction of Americas way of life.
A Republican party who has lost touch with reality and a Democratic one. Who has become so scattered with equal rights for everyone but the working class. It has lost the vote of the strong moderates who favor good and reasonable laws.
Thanks for this article Engineer!
A lot of people are just anti-anything, anti-changing anything because for them all is perfectly well...I am afraid this feeling for the middle class (eroding) is not a USA particularity!
Surely the economy and health care will be decisive in this campaign (more than the war in Irak: I can understand it!). I don't think Benazir Butto's assassination will change something in the choice of the voters...
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Voters began to worry more about their pocketbooks over the last month รข;; even more than about the war in Iraq.
More than half the voters in an ongoing survey for The Associated Press and Yahoo! News now say the economy and health care are extremely important to them personally. They fear they will face unexpected medical expenses, their homes will lose value or mortgage and credit card payments will overwhelm them.
Events, however, can quickly change public opinion. Thursday's assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto could draw more attention to terrorism and national security, an issue that still ranked highly with the public and which 45 percent of those polled considered extremely important.
With a dollar that is becoming increasingly weak and a National Debt that is rapidly approaching the point where it will have doubled in 8 years time because of the severe mismanagement of the current administration and with more than a few nationally recognized economists are predicting that this Nation will sink into a steep recession - if not in fact an actual depression - during the coming year it is no wonder that the average citizen is concerned, if not in fact fearful, about the state of the Nation's economy.
The assassination of Butto in Pakistan underscores just how weak we have become as people worldwide are seeking security by transfering their dollars into Swiss Francs and Euro's as a hedge against the uncertainty of todays world.