[lbo-talk] US Debt-Serfs Start To Wake Up

[Dennis Redmond]

An Ipsos/Reuters poll says 73% of Americans now think the economy is
going to hell in a handbasket, close to an all-time high. Nothing
those of us who work for a living didn't already know, right? But
there's a fascinating detail hidden at the end:

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http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5301
"We also asked what the public think the Government should do to
stimulate the economy: cutting spending (49%) and taxing the wealthy
(46%) came highest, followed by investment in infrastructure (34%)."
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Those 49% and 46% are amazing figures, considering the general
ineffectiveness of the US Left and the amount of time mainstream
neoliberal media oligopolies hammer US citizens with market
fundamentalist dogma. There's finally mass support for an
anti-neoliberal politics in this country, for the first time in my
lifetime. The full PDF of the report is here:
http://www.ipsos-na.com/download/pr.aspx?id=10888

-- DRR