A piece in today’s The Hill highlights Americans’ growing unrest with their nation’s growing deficits.
The federal budget deficit will matter more to voters this year than it has in the past decade, according to polls.
While it continues to trail the near-double-digit unemployment rates and overall state of the economy as a leading concern for voters, it is proving central to the 2010 election.
11 percent of those polled by Gallup said the federal deficit was the most important issue facing the nation … (this is) the highest point since the mid-1990s.
Referring to the explosion in spending, Michael Ettlinger, a vice president at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, warned Washington:
“You fought for it, you did it, you own it, you need to defend it.”
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