Poll: Public opposed to raising debt ceiling (Gallup: 47% oppose, 19% support)

The Hill ^ | 05/13/11 | Jordan Fabian

[cableguymn]

Seems like a winner for the republicans.

They will blow it.

[albie]

I wish they’d quit calling it “debt ceiling”. There is no “ceiling” if you continue to raise it.

[treetopsandroofs]

“Gallup conducted a telephone survey of 1,018 adults between May 5-8.”

Is this a trend now, just survey “adults”?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Slowly, Americans are waking up.

[Carry_Okie]

Sounds more like California every day: “Don’t raise my debt, but don’t touch my entitlements!!!”

[SouthTexas]

Sure is a lot of people left that don’t know what a budget is.

[Cheerio]

IMHO we can count on the GOP snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Harry Reid in '06: Raising debt limit last thing we should do, will weaken country, hurt economy

Obama 2011: Raise the Debt Limit! Obama 2006: Don’t You Dare Raise the Debt Limit!

Hey Republicans - Play these on a daily basis - get the GOP some media coverage - scream loud enough so they have to report your screaming. Joe six-pack who only gets his news from the tube at 6pm, does not know or remember their messiahs telling GWB not to raise the debt ceiling.

[Cheerio]

Sure is a lot of people left that don’t know what a budget is.

Most Americans have no clue how the Fed Govt budgets, let alone how the deficit or the debt is calculated or what meaning it has to their own life.

[SouthTexas]

let alone how the deficit or the debt is calculated

Or their own for that matter.

[rokkitapps]

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.

[Cheerio]

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.

Exactly!!! This is just like another TARP - sky is falling the world ends in 30 min if we don't [ fill in the blank ]. PRIORITIZE the payment of the debt OVER spending on all these nonessential programs. Send the Fed Employees home and pay down the debt. We don't have to be in default, BUT "Never let a good crisis go to waste".

[screaminsunshine]

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.

[mo]

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....

[nerdwithagun]

Numbers look fairly correct. Angry Tea partyers, Obama socialists, and the rest of the population who choose to live in ignorance at what is going on in the world

[sunny48]

government gone wild
http://youtu.be/VtVbUmcQSuk

[for-q-clinton]

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.

[Tim n Texas]

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.

[Neoliberalnot]

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.

[cranked]

Goes to show that not all pollings are equal: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-poll-62-of-likely-voters-oppose-raising-debt-ceiling/