what, there s always innovation. if the investor class as evidenced by yesterday s performance feel better that s going to translate to the banks, to lending, and it translates then to new kinds of inventions and business ventures that could lead to more hiring. i don t think that s out of the question. we re not going down to 6 percent. but it s confidence. if the confidence if people say look remember, the president s argument is we were in a ditch, it s taken us longer to get out of the ditch. but if people believe oh no, we re actually headed up, i think that s a big, big victory for the democrats and president obama. martha: it s sort of like banging your head against the wall, you don t know how good it feels until it stops, and that may be sort of enough for some people, and i find this interesting, there s a lot of talk about the bubble in china, that manufacturing, that the wage gap is narrowing a little bit, that some manufacturing may be coming back to the united states.
at 61 percent tells you that people understand the issue. look, i speak to a lot of small business owners. and they are universal in saying look what s coming down the pike at me. i ve got omabacare coming along, which imposes much higher medical costs on me, the employer, we ve got dodd-frank, financial reform, financial regulation, that affects the relationship between small business and banks. when small business people talk to us across business, they are saying yes, we feel the regulations from the epa now, and we know that more is coming down the road, they know it s hurting us. bill: what are you going to be when you grow up, stuart? we asked the question, what would you want your own child to be. a wall street executive, 48 percent. an occupy wall street protester, 26 percent. neither say 18. what do you think about that? i am shocked! twenty-six, one quarter of americans want their children to grow up and demonstrate on wall street! in favor of the forced
away freedom. bill: a higher number than people probably thought. stuart varney, leading our fox business network, the first poll, polls like these can make orioo make or break president social security presidencies can they not? i think it s passing judgment on the economic polices, the first poll you mentioned about people thinking government regulations are crimping the economy, not doing the right thing for the economy, that s what the private sector has been saying for some time, can t create jobs, you can t grow the economy if you re strangled by regulation. then that 76 percent that think we re going in the wrong direction, that is an implied criticism of president obama s direction that he s taking the country in, in the sense that he s going for more government and big government at that. it is to a large degree a repudiation of president obama s polices. bill: on that regulation question, a lot of times we seem to think that s inside the beltway speak in washington, but t