Posted on 05/13/2011 7:18:39 AM PDT by Qbert
The public remains opposed to raising the nation's debt ceiling as lawmakers struggle to develop a plan to hike the legal borrowing limit, a new poll released Friday shows.
Forty-seven percent say they don't want their member of Congress to vote to raise the limit, compared to 19 percent who do. Thirty-four percent say they don't know enough to say, according to a Gallup poll.
The public has been opposed to raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling for months, and doesn't seem to be convinced by lawmakers in both parties who say that the limit will eventually be raised. Democrats and Republicans are deadlocked on a deal to raise the limit, which the U.S. is expected to reach by Aug. 2.
Republicans and some Democrats have said that they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling without serious spending cuts and fiscal reforms attached. But President Obama and Democratic leaders have urged Republicans not to play politics with the vote, arguing that failing to hike the limit would lead to a debt default that would send shockwaves throughout world financial markets.
GOP leaders, meanwhile, are facing tremendous pressure from their base not to raise the debt ceiling: Republicans polled don't want it hiked by a whopping 70-8 percent.
Independets, a critical voting bloc for both parties in 2012, oppose raising the debt ceiling 46-15 percent. Democrats say they want it raised by a margin of 33-26 percent.
Opposition heightens among the 23 percent who say they are following the proceedings very closely: Sixty-two percent don't want the limit raised, compared to 25 percent who support raising it.
Gallup conducted a telephone survey of 1,018 adults between May 5-8. The margin of error is four percentage points.
Seems like a winner for the republicans.
They will blow it.
I wish they’d quit calling it “debt ceiling”. There is no “ceiling” if you continue to raise it.
“Gallup conducted a telephone survey of 1,018 adults between May 5-8.”
Is this a trend now, just survey “adults”?
Slowly, Americans are waking up.
Sounds more like California every day: “Don’t raise my debt, but don’t touch my entitlements!!!”
Sure is a lot of people left that don’t know what a budget is.
Or their own for that matter.
I for one am sick of the problems that require trillions thrown at them or “the next great depression” will happen.
AND just because you don’t raise the ceiling doesn’t mean automatic default. Quit borrowing from China to give money to other countries and welfare bums.
The stupid citizens do not understand advanced Ebonomical Policy. Only the Media Pundits can fathom the depth of genius required to get it. To the politicians it is so clear and easy.
We the People will better survive the collapse and fall of a few federal agencies...than another round of debt on our great-grandchildrens’ plates....
government gone wild
http://youtu.be/VtVbUmcQSuk
The reason they won’t is becaues they WANT to raise the debt ceiling. They will talk about cuts but in the end will only cut easy things and then expand the debt limit.
Let’s face it...we need to go bankrupt before they will fix it...so we may be better off trying to raise it faster. Let’s just get it over with already. Let’s spend like drunken sailors for another 2 years and wait for our credit rating to take a hit. We’ll default on loans, interest rates and prices will shoot up—but at least we may be able to get it fixed for our grandchildren. Yes there will be a generation or two that didn’t cause the problem and they will be the ones fixing it though. They will truly be the greatest generation.
It would be better to freeze the debt ceiling, but congress and president are simply incapable of doing what it takes in terms of spending cuts and budget management.
They have this speed-bump, but there’s no political will to apply the breaks.
They might as well get rid of the debt ceiling altogether. It adds no value.
The 25% who supported this theft speak the language of Obamics. Recall, just a few years ago, these same parasites were speaking ebonics and with the election of their glorious kenyan, they now speak a new dialect of ebonics, called Obamics.
Goes to show that not all pollings are equal: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-poll-62-of-likely-voters-oppose-raising-debt-ceiling/
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