Polls Find U.S. Is Glum On Economy
Americans are so glum over the economy that eight out ot' 10 think the recession is thriving, seven think their leaders are lying, and six think neither major political party cares about people, a panel ol poll-takers reported yesterday.</br></br>ÛÏBy any measure . . . this is not a happy nor optimistic mood out there about the economy," said opinion -sampler Louis Harris.</br></br>ÛÏWhat it adds up to is not even a wait-and-see, skeptical public. It is a people who are close to voting no confidence in this administration on the economic measures it has taken. On the President's overall economic program, his rating comes up at r>8-23 per cent negative.Û</br></br>Though their figures differed, they mostly drew the same conclusions Americans believe the nation is still gripped in recession, that inflation will worsen and that their government is bungling efforts to correct the situation.</br></br>Patrick H. Caddell of Cambridge Reports, blaming a ÛÏdecade of psychological trauma" over Vietnam and Watergate, said his figures show that ill) per cent of the public believes that in the last 10 years "AmericaÛªs leaders have consistently lied to the American people."