spending cuts, we re not going to compromise martha: you know what? let s hear from the moms and the moms-to-be in the back row. when you re listening to all this, beth, what do you think? i worry what it s going to be like for luke when he s older. i worry about, um, how much it s going to cost for him to go to college, i worry how much, um, if there s going to be jobs for him when he gets out of college. and my husband and i really, um, as far as health care have been feeling it, adding him to our, um, plans and, you know, it s really a huge expense for us. martha: who do you blame for the log jam in washington right now, the president, republicans, democrats? who do you blame? there s not one person that i would say i would blame. i just don t think martha: all of them. yeah. martha: maria, what do you think? i m pretty much in the same boat. martha: would you throw all the bums out and start other? is. we put all the bums in there, if you want to look at it that way.
all right, see the money piling up in the front of the capitol? we get back to the debt crisis now and a dramatic new poll from abc news and the washington post. numbers out that show that americans are increasingly unhappy, angry even with what they re seeing in washington. 80% of those responsibilities for respondents for this washington post poll said they re dissatisfied with the government, that is a jump of 11 percentage points in just one month. that is the highest level of unhappiness that we ve seen in 19 years. so what is wrong with washington, and what does america want to see changed? i talked with a panel of average folks a little earlier who gave us some answers to all of those questions. watch this. let me just introduce everybody. we ve got the new mom in the back there, that s beth levy with little luke who we re hoping is going to be okay hanging with us. maria fini, a mom-to-be, she s in the back row. pam lauria.
the people in this country pay nothing. correct. i have sent, i wrote my senator, sherrod brown, and be suggested if it was just a dollar a month, it s worth a dollar a month. i agree with the vice president, paying taxes is to a certain extent an honor. but we have 42% who are disenfranchised, they don t feel ownership of the country even though they do own it. i think you have to look at the numbers from the poll that we re talking about, why is there so much frustration people are out of work. only 20% of the american people feel like we should get to this deficit reduction plan by spending cuts alone. and you have the republican leadership, as you said, only spending cuts, we re not going to compromise martha: you know what? let s hear from the moms and the moms-to-be in the back row. when you re listening to all this, beth, what do you think? i worry what it s going to be like for luke when he s older. i worry about, um, how much it s