American Understanding

by digby
 
John King did his State of the Union segment in Wyoming today. He spoke with some nice people in the Jackson Hole area who complained heartily about the horrible state of the local economy. They said the health care plan was too complicated because it was a thousand pages and nobody knows what’s in it. They also complained about how horribly high the cost of their health insurance was. They hate all the bickering in congress and even wished that Dick Cheney, a local, would stop criticizing the president, so they aren’t tea baggers. They all said they want Obama to succeed. 

John King: To be more successful in his second year what should he do?

Wyoming citizen: Cut spending

King: cut spending ..

Other WC: I think we’re out of control.

King: Cut spending? Why does the spending bother you?

Different WC: We have a deficit. It’s so huge right now. I just don’t think it’s helping our economy. I don’t think it’s helping anybody.

These were all people in their 40s who own businesses  there in Wyoming.  I suspect they are like a lot of people.  King, of course, didn’t pursue it and ask specifically why they thought that spending and the deficit were the cause of the slowdown or why stopping it would fix things, but I would guess they’d all come back with taxes as the standard reply.

Granted, these people are all probably Republicans although they didn’t say it. But what would Democrats have said differently I wonder?

.