a.b.c. news washington post poll that came out today that shows that eighty percent of the people polled are dissatisfied by it or are flat out angry about the work the government is doing and they can narrow it down to this debt ceiling debate because that's when these numbers started really going south compared to past numbers so why aren't americans in the streets upset demanding that their government works. you know i that's that's the sixty four thousand dollar question i mean i think to a certain extent we're at a time in this country of unprecedented wage stagnation for the middle class words and i'm in this country of incredible joblessness that we haven't seen in years we've we're we are still no not technically we're still feeling we're still feeling the effects of the recession and to the extent that we've had a growth coming out of it it's all been on the corporate profit side and i think frankly people are trying to make ends meet i think that there's such a mess idea about how they're going to. make you know make their health care payments make their car payments make their mor

new a.b.c. washington post poll sixty two percent of americans want to see a balanced approach to raising the debt limit that includes both spending cuts and revenue increases and when it comes to what sort of revenue raisers the american people want to see republicans heads are about to explode a lobbying seventy two percent of americans support raising taxes on people who make more than a quarter million dollars a year only twenty seven percent oppose not only that large majorities of americans also support raising the social security tax gap closing the hedge fund manager tax loophole and cutting off taxpayer subsidies for big oil corporations curiously none of these reforms are part of the game. young as six deal is now all the rage on capitol hill but a new gallup poll renders what's going on top capitol hill today completely meaningless according to gallup most of us frankly don't give a damn about the debt but as with the most important problems facing this country today are a plurality of americans thirty one percent said the economy in general coming in second it's the job stupid twenty s

new a.b.c. washington post poll has that answer turns out that eighty percent of poll respondents say that they feel dissatisfied or even angry about the work that the government is doing eighty percent and that's the highest level that we've seen in anger in nineteen years and you can bet that it has to do with the debt ceiling to that number has gone up eleven points just in the past month and the picture is especially bad for republicans a poll showing that seventy seven percent of respondents think the republican leadership is unwilling to negotiate and is slowing down those talks it isn't fair to put all the anger only republicans in the fair to say this is only about the debt ceiling maybe americans should be more angry at the president purcel ing them out when it comes to social security medicaid and medicare join me to discuss this is jane hamsher founder of firedoglake dot com jane thanks so much nice to have you back on the show tonight thanks for having me now eighty percent of americans according to this poll are dissatisfied and angry with the government that's a really large perce