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Fox News Poll: Voters concerned about government spending

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    The latest Fox News Poll found voters are “extremely” concerned about government spending, health care and the economy

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Where about 27 hours away from president Obama's first State of the Union Address of his second term -- White House correspondent Ed Henry tells us what we can expect to hear.

-- -- -- Obama only use the word job twice in his inaugural address his team is now building Tuesday's big speech as a continuation.

Of a major push on the economy you will hear in the president's state of the union.

An outline from him for his plan to create jobs and grow the middle class the president has always viewed the two speeches.

The inaugural address in the state of the union is.

To -- in the same play -- plays since the inaugural has featured lots of scenes with the president focusing instead on gun control.

Immigration reform and other issues.

Leading to headlines this weekend about the president pivoting back to jobs the -- Republicans say they've -- nearly a dozen times.

Since mr.

Obama first tried to pivot back from health.

Care the president spent most of his first term avoiding the issues of Americans cared about most.

What I'm suggesting is that you know -- this -- -- This time around.

White House officials -- the overall thrust of the inaugural address that was about helping the middle class and despite other issues popping up.

Jobs is priority number one.

There's no -- The president's principal -- occupation since he ran for this office beginning in 2007 has been that you know what we need to do.

To make our economy work for the middle class they get the public appears to leave those efforts have fallen short.

With a quinnipiac poll finding last week 53%.

Of the public believes the nation is still in recession.

Another challenge for the president aides are signaling you'll be more combative toward Republicans Tuesday night and -- say very little about cutting the size of government.

Even though the latest Fox News poll found that when asked what issues they are extremely concerned about.

Number one was government spending.

Just ahead of health care and the economy despite democratic leader Nancy Pelosi claiming to Fox's Chris Wallace -- Washington does not have a spending problem it and -- almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem we have a budget deficit problem that we have to address.

-- -- -- -- -- The claim that nothing brings more money into the US treasury than investing in education investing another word for spending -- So and what are we hearing about whether the president will attack you tackle the deficit and Smart -- interesting because today Jay Carney said the president does believe there's a spending problem here in Washington until he seems to disagree with Nancy Pelosi at least a little bit McCarty went on to say that he believes the problem is with spending on health -- something the president tried to tackle the Affordable Care Act in -- went on to say the president doesn't believe the government is too big right now when you compared to historic levels aside he's not going in all -- on the deficit tomorrow night he's going all in on new investments -- OK Ed Henry -- in the north lawn Ed thank you.