From the Dept. of "If you have to say it..." JOBS sign on HQ of leading Deficit Peacock US Chamber of Commerce. (photo: vpickering)

CBS News has released a new poll and, not surprisingly, with official unemployment around nine percent, it found that an overwhelming 51 percent of Americans said jobs/economy is the most important problem facing the country. By comparison, the national debt comes in second with a mere seven percent of Americans saying it is the most important problem, followed by health care with five percent.

When asked to choose what should be a higher priority between just cutting government spending or creating jobs, by a greater than two-to-one margin, Americans choose job creations. A full 63 percent think job creation should be the higher priority, while only 26 percent choose spending cuts, with 11 percent choosing both.

Yet our politicians seem to have either not have gotten the memo or simply don’t care. Washington has fallen deep into the grips of a full blown wave of deficit hysteria to justify domestic spending cuts.