A new poll commissioned by the NY TIMES and CBS NEWS indicates that a majority of Americans are concerned about the growing budget deficit.
At the same time, they do not want to pay more taxes, but also are against cutting of the defense budget, education and health care.
This situation is obviously incongruous, and demonstrates just how confused the American public really is.
It is ironic that in a country that loves to say that more than ever we are educating more people through more years of school, that the public seems ever more ignorant than it was in the past. It is a sad commentary on America’s future if we have the country’s citizens unable to understand reality, or just possibly unwilling to do anything in the way of sacrifice, a trait that brought America to its greatness in past generations.