What's wrong with this yahoo headline?

Voters began to worry more about their pocketbooks over the last month — even more than about the war in Iraq. More than half the voters in an ongoing survey for The Associated Press and Yahoo! News now say the economy and health care are extremely important to them personally.

Are the American so stupid they can't link the insane tax cuts to the rich, and huge pointless war spending that have devalued the dollar and bankrupt the government to the drop in the American economy. The war issue IS the economy issue. Boy isn't it about time the media and the candidates woke up and linked these two issues. Oh and if we hadn't wasted the budget surplus on tax cuts to the rich we could also have solved the health care problem. Bushes mistakes and Republican basic platform for 2008 are one and the same. Why can't the American voter, the media and the major candidates see this. It's not really hard to link these issues.

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Which is sad, of course. :(

CONSERVATISM IS A FAILED IDEOLOGY.

What further proof do you need then the last 7 years?

Seems like we are ususally ahead of the game. We will get the message out to the world and then the media will pick up on it.

supposed to think beyond A all the way to B.

But I'm recommending this anyway, thanks for the thread, Johonny.

(+ a lot of other failed "trickle-down" Enronomy crap)

Duh. The lamestream media PRETENDS they can't add. They PRETEND that all they can do is (SOMETIMES) write complete grammatically correct sentences and look cute on TeeVee. I don't think this is unintentional. I think it's deliberate how they separate the two parts of that equation.

Remember that the corprats who own them are part of the problem. As are most of the candidates. So they CHOSE to ignore it and not link those things.

'Cause Disinformed unthinking, unblinking, voters are 'safe' voters. They either can't or don't add either, and they certainly don't do it unless everyone else (candidates and lamestream media) are specifically pointing it out to them. You expect them to THINK by themselves?! :sarcasm:

HECK NO! We wouldn't want to upset the status quo that keeps all that money flowing into the corprat coffers, would we? And the ability to ADD would reveal the sum - the solution to the problem of why American pocketbooks are so thin these days! Oh noooo! Can't have THAT. :sarcasm:

the American people are donditioned to think of only one thing at a time. If Anna Nicole Smith is dead or Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant, how can we expect the media to also cover the war in Iraq and pocketbook issues? And if they do manage to find time to cover one or the other, they obviously can't cover both.

Of course, the America media are staffed people with no brains, no work ethic, and no courage. All they can do is follow the herd. Of course, it got like that because those who actually did the work of investigation and reporting did not please their corporate masters, so they didn't make it to the top. Even those who know how to actually practice journalism are afraid to, because if they try to, they could lose their jobs, or at least find their path to better working conditions and pay permanently blocked.