Large Majority Of Americans Favor Obama Stimulus Plan
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Money, PollsIn fact, 58% to 33%.
Understandably, Democrats favor this far more than Independents and Republicans, but Indys are pretty solidly behind it at this point.
This could all change if Americans don’t feel the stimulus package is appropriate, but, at least for now, there’s definitely a mandate to pass something big the moment Obama gets into office.
More as it develops…
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December 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Of course we support it. Because Americans believe in magic! Just close your eyes, click your heels three times and repeat this phrase “There is nothing like free money. There is nothing like free money.” If the money isn’t there - just print more. Or borrow it from China.
So what if we are piling massive new spending and massive new debt on the massive spending increases, easy money and debt of the Bush administration that helped create this crisis. But wait! There is a difference! This time it is the traditional democratic constituencies that will be the primary beneficiaries, instead of the traditional Republican constituencies who have been suckling on the public teat for the last eight years. What’s not to like if you are a Democrat? After all, all we have to do is keep borrowing more and printing more and borrowing more and printing more money. No problem. There are no consequences here. And when the currency collapses, well that’s not our problem. Lets just let our kids and grandkids worry about that.
Yes this is the kind of change I can really believe in - replacing the Republican pigs at the trough with the Democratic pigs at the trough. New politics. Transformation. Hope. Change. Brings a tear to my eye.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Yawn.
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 am
How can American’s support a plan that hasn’t been presented yet and which nobody knows the details off.
Methinks the people at Gallup have run out of questions to ask now that the election is over.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:55 am
It frustrates me that this issue instantly becomes polarized and politicized. Across both aisles, it seems like politicians old and new are either delusional or intentionally wrongheaded in the approach to truly fixing the economy. More debt–national and personal–isn’t the solution, it’s the problem. Fixing the problem by doing more of the things that caused the problem? Huh? Seriously? And then let’s turn it into a political issue so the sheeple among us can line up in neat little rows behind the “for” and “against” polling responses.
Me, I’m teaching my kids Mandarin. But as for me, I’m thinking that someday I’ll be that cranky old immigrant in Yankeetown, just on the outskirts of Beijing, who stubbornly refuses to learn the language.