First Republican Presidential Debate Pulled Off Course, But Pawlenty Emerges Relatively Unscathed

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/06/republican-presidential-debate-south-carolina_n_858401.html

But the candidates spent little time discussing America's sustained high unemployment rate or what to do about creating more jobs. Joblessness was only tangentially connected to a few questions about tax policy, organized labor and the national debt.

**Opinion**

Of course the high unemployment rate is not an issue of interest to them. Why? Well, many times, they can't understand and/or relate to it since it doesn't directly affect them (or for that matter, their associates, family, friends, and acquaintances either). Now, I bet if there were job losses or pay cuts in the elite financial sector (which most often consists of politicians), then we would see big changes...