Poll: Most Americans think the stimulus didn't help [Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not....]

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Poll: Most Americans think the stimulus didn't help Tags:

By ANDY BARR | 4/29/10 9:09 AM EDT

Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not believe the $787 billion stimulus package the president passed last year has helped create jobs, according to a new Pew Research Poll.

Sixty-two percent of those polled said the stimulus hasn’t contributed to job creation while 33 percent said the package has.

Only a slight majority, 51 percent, of Democrats think the stimulus helped create jobs, 42 percent said it has not. Seventy-nine percent of self-identified Republicans said the stimulus didn’t aide job growth while 18 percent think it did.

The survey also showed that voters are mixed on whether the Troubled Asset Relief Program was effective in staving off a deeper financial crisis.

Forty-nine percent said TARP did not prevent a more severe crisis compared to 42 percent who said it did.

Still, despite the pessimistic outlook of two of the Obama’s administration’s signature economic initiatives most Americans think the county’s economy will either be better or the same a year from now.

[Sub-Driver]

Going sour on that hopey changey?

[ElayneJ]

33% see an increase in jobs?

[Pollster1]

33% see an increase in jobs?

33% respond to surveys through an Obama lens. "What response makes the grand and glorious messiah of socialism sound like he's not a hateful, anti-American rookie in over his head?"

[albie]

Wow! Sounds like some Americans are starting to use their “thinker”! Bout time.

[MCCRon58]

I saw a home-made sign attached to the sides of one of the highway signs touting the “stimulus” road repair project. It said on one side “Paid for with money borrowed from china” And on the other side it said “to be paid for by your kids, grand kids, great grand kids . . . ‘

[Pollster1]

33% respond to surveys through an Obama lens. "What response makes the grand and glorious messiah of socialism sound like he's not a hateful, anti-American rookie in over his head?"

Speeding? Running a red light? Illegal parking?

[Mr. Wright]

I drove through “the hood” yesterday — it seemed to me that there were more Cadillacs parked curbside than usual. Hmmmmmmmmmm, wonder what that could be all about?

[Jack Hydrazine]

That’s because it was designed to stimualte government to grow bigger!
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[KansasGirl]

The stimulus bill wasn’t designed to create jobs. It was designed to increase the welfare state and public sector power, the Democrat voting base.