Americans Say Economy, Jobs Are Top Priorities, but Divide on Other Issues

Did you know that if you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8% sales tax on it?
That's $3,800 on a $100,000 home etc.
When did this happen? It's in the health care bill.

Folks, the fat cats are in charge... It's the insane running the asylum. We need more keen business minds, and less attorneys in Washington. The White House staff owes more than 1 million in unpaid taxes. It's insane.

A trillion squandered and Democrat control of both houses and the White House did nothing to improve the structural problems of jobs and the recovery of the private productive economy. Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Wall Street banksters did just swell, thank you very little, even as many Democrats were fired who arrived middle class and left Washington wealthy.
I'm ready for smaller, cheaper, more effective government with responsible grown-ups in charge.

Everyone's talking and saying nothing. Jobs are gone, most middle-class Americans are in a bottonless pit of being used by big business, the banks, and the politicians who CLAIM to have our best interest. Not much I believe anymore. Why bother?

The goverment cannot create jobs in private industry the only thing they can do is cause the loss of private industry jobs with regulation and bans. We are going to get in a bigger mess if we dont promote domestic oil production in a big way because china is going to lockup all the foreign oil. Cheep energy is our only hope of rebuilding production in America and at this time oil is the answer to that and the other energy sources will in time be competive in the market without tax money to support it which we know is a losing deal in the long run. The ethanol program is a big screwup and seems to be very destructive and costly to the poor and middleclass.

Both parties are focusing on the spending and taxation side of our economy and are oblivious to building up the revenue side that can pay for Socialism that is being installed. We need a Marshall Plan industrial buildup such as we did for Japan and Europe after WW 2. Subsidize Steel mills and automation research. Release our vast Oil reserves to make gasoline ffordable for the masses. Release the full might of of our industrial capacity, without Government sabotaging our competitive capitalism.

Unless we place industrial development over enviornmental preoccupation the economy will never recover. The country desperately needs major industry restored in the USA. Small Business only provides a small portion of the job base necessary for real job creation and career potential for our professional workforce. We cannot compete with serf labor countries in small touch labor type manufacturing. Big scale industry involving automation and high technology will restore our world industrial leadership and jobs at all skill levels. We need oil exploration and drilling, nuclear and hydro power development, mining, space exploration, large ship building, restore steel industry, aircraft development, petro chemical research, medical research, etc. Obama's shutdown of major industry for enviornmental reasons is insane. WE NEED A BIG BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION!!!!!!

UAW or any union does not approve of the loss of jobs. Problem is that the newly elected congress and a lot of the people are always blindfolded into thinking that unions are the reason businesses close rather than the TRUTH that the only thing shipping jobs away is the rich trying to get filthy rich rather than keeping people employed in the US and sharing some of the wealth and helping the economy by providing people with jobs that they can afford to spend money. CEO greed...perfect example. There has never been a job lost because of a union being present, employers may have chosen to fatten their wallets and payed $0.83 cents an hour overseas, but those companies could have sustained if they offered to work with the unions for the good of all. Unions have been making concessions since the 80's

It always has been about jobs. First the Democrats didn't get it, now it's looking like the Republican's are having the same problem. Let's through them all out in 2012.

news flash...... general motors, the company that we tax payers bailed out with millions and millions of tax payer money announced they will spend over 500 million dollars to build a plant in MEXICO to build engines. how about some jobs for us americans. i guess the UAW approves of this lossing jobs to their union paying members. p.s. i wonder if you will see this on the left wing democratic news channels tonight...hhhhmmmmm