Americans Still List Jobs as Top Problem, but Concern Over the Deficit Grows

Economy First

The promises and commitment of the elections of November from the winners have already started to fade. Patriotism first?
The first order for Congress and the Senate should be addressing ‘unemployment’ instead of spending the next two years fighting across party lines over the health bill. We Americans can endure a lot of Washington’s political games in the past ,but we can not ignore this high unemployment with no clear answers; we can’t ignore housing at it’s all time low since 1959; we can’t ignore over one million homes in foreclosure in 2010 with more coming in 2011.
If we can’t work, we can’t support our families, feed our families, shelter our families and educate our children. So goes the ‘American Dream’.
The health plan can’t help American’s now. Congress and the Senate should focus on these issues and since they have less than two years left.
We American statistically have given up on party lines and will be out voting in force in 2012.

I am 73 years old and Social Security is my only income. I lost my Wife of 53 years this past February. Her $615 dollar income is gone also. My electric rate per kilowatt hour quadrupled from 2004 to 2008. My electric bill used to be around $100 dollars a month. It is now nearing $400 dollars per month! Gasoline is going back up to $4 dollars, or more per gallon. Food has gone up drastically and clothing is getting more expensive. Everything I buy has increased in cost, due to the drastic environmental expenditures and the draconian mandates from the EPA. We need to get back to using our God-given fossil fuels! We have enough coal, un-tapped oil and natural gas to last for a century or more. We are the Saudi Arabia of Coal! We could let Private Industry do the environmental stuff. Our Government has spent Billions of dollars on moonshine and soy bean juice! If we got back to using our Natural fuels, we could put EVERYBODY back to work, almost immediately. And they would be permanent, high paying jobs. Isn't the EPA supposed to get permission from Congress, to enact their costly mandates? Stop funding them. Please! I am going to be on the streets before long! I cannot handle the high energy costs! Thank You.

All three are obviosly related ,but jobs,are the foundation of the entire system.

If there were $4.3 trillion dollars going into the US Treasury every decade and then it stopped wouldn't we have less money to pay our bills???
This is what happened between 2000 and 2008. Foreign goods coming into the US were assessed a duty but not collected because of trade deals. Trade deals are killing American business, US corporations leave to save operating costs unleveling the playing field. Protect American business, raise the tariffs, restore jobs, there are no foreign goods we cannot make here. Put Americans to work raise the tariffs 8-10% across the board.

It is time to cut spending. Democrat politicians have bragged wildly about "draining the swamp" while covering for their cronies and doing nothing effective to go after waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs. Meanwhile, we careen into the largest chasm of debt in the history of the world, with not one reason to believe more hollow promises of jobs or efficient government.
If you find yourself going broke, it is time to stop digging the hole deeper. All federal revenues come from taxing the earnings of private industry wage earners directly or through hidden taxes. Now is the time to cut federal jobs and let private industry up for air before it drowns.

Corp. tax in america is 35% canada is now 16.5%. EPA is going to put a carbon tax on CO2. Healthcare cost for companies are going through the roof. New regulation are handicuffing business. Stimulus was use to bail unions not businesses. To create jobs abd keep them in america this antibusiness rethoric has to stop. They are not the enemy they are the job creators. This adminstration has to stop the class warfare and race warfare and try to help create jobs.

I do daycare and have for 33 years the only people that get help from the grovernment to help pay for thier childcare is immagrants. who cares if the single woman with two children works.The government won't help. I can't even understand the woman who call me and ask about childcare.So sad woman in this country are trying to make a living for themselfs and their children and no one will help so they go with out jobs.

If the leftwing liberal lunatics are done insulting Americans intelligence with their "smear machine" maybe we can focus on the ceiling debt. Just don't bother getting a liberals opinion, rofl... it'd be tantamount to asking Baghdad Bob, rofl. Liberals can have lamestream media, its proven to be worthless at reporting facts/truth anyway!

The same things that the American public was concerned about during the election of 2008, in 2011, they're the same ones. Great job so far, that learn as you lead the country thing is working out well.

As long as we keep doing what we are doing this country is headed to disaster . Spending will be the end of us if we do not do something now not later. Increasing the deficit ceiling is a tough call but maybe it is the pain that we must begin to go thru .