Of course, our “leaders” will ignore anything that doesn’t validate what they’ve already decided to do!
A new poll reveals that Democratic and Republican voters similarly believe Congress should prioritize jobs creation and growing the economy instead of focusing on guns and immigration. The voters surveyed placed reducing gun violence and immigration at the bottom of a list of 12 priorities for Congress and the president to address.
The Gallup poll, released Wednesday, shows 86% of voters believe Congress should make its top focus jobs creation, with 86% saying Congress should prioritize work on improving the economy.
Only 55% of the voters surveyed believed reducing gun violence should be a top priority, with 50% saying Congress should focus on immigration reform.
Democrats and Republicans assigned similar priority ratings to various issues, including jobs creation, economy growth, addressing problems with Social Security and Medicare, and reforming the tax code, according to Gallup. Ninety percent of Democratic voters and 84% of Republican voters said creating more jobs should be Congress’ top priority.
“We the people”—- the majority—-will be told by our elected representatives ( paid for by the 1%) what’s best for us. After all they’re so much smarter than we are. If they weren’t they wouldn’t be so rich and famous. Or maybe it’s because the 1% and their butt-boys/girls are all much better thieving liars and con-men/women than “we the people” are? Over the last 30 years the upper 10% got 96% of all of the wealth created in this country. The bottom 90% got 4%.
Low informed voters.
“Low informed voters” to be sure. But there are many more informed voters who just go along to get along. Those are the people who say “What can I do about it? It’s always been this way.” You know, like the fact that there’s no Peace in the Middle East because ‘those’ people have been fighting each other for thousands of years and nothings gonna change. Making a change demands an attitude adjustment. You can change your own attitude about this or about that. Or you can wait for somebody else to change your attitude for you. And there are damn sure a whole bunch of people out in the world just waiting to do that either for fun or for profit.
“Low informed voters”? Well, we here are pretty well informed, albeit not 100% on all topics. But, we don’t get listened to. Our politicians are too busy sucking up to the Big Money and Powers That Be to be able to pay any attention to us and our concerns.
And, if Paul Krugman can’t get Obama to listen to him, who thinks they can get Obama to listen to us? Obama knows where the power and the money are, and it ain’t with us.
My Obama supporting neighbor finally is realizing that Obama does not really care about him and his concerns, but it’s leaving him utterly unable to address the problems politically. He says he needs to put all his energy into making his life as safe as possible even if Obama cuts his SocSec and Medicare (well, for him, Medicaid). He gets too depressed when he realizes how he’s been fooled and used by Obama.
I think the defeat of the gun bill showed pretty definitively that Congress is no longer interested in serving for the benefit of Americans. Whenever we’re around a Congress person citing the “will of their constituents,” we should ask which of their four largest Corporate contributors they’re talking about.