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Re: NBC/WSJ poll: American Jobs Act wildly popular with public

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What can we say about the American public? How about, 'there's one born every second'?

People sure are dense. On another board, we had a guy who was talking up this jobs act when it didn't even exist yet! Can you believe that??

Uh, wait. Obummer did the same thing!!

Not much thought went into the jobs bill. It was thrown together in a hurry, and the result was about what you would expect: Another piece of overpriced, useless legislation by the worst American President in modern history. 


13-Oct-2011

Obama's Stimulus Plan Will Cost $250,000 Per Job

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I'd say $250k per job is a bargain compared with Obama's last stimulus:

The report was written by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of three economists who were all handpicked by Obama, and it chronicles the alleged success of the “stimulus” in adding or saving jobs. The council reports that, using “mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus” (which it describes as a “natural way to estimate the effects of” the legislation), the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs — whether private or public — at a cost (to date) of $666 billion. That’s a cost to taxpayers of $278,000 per job.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-s-economists-stimulus-has-cost-278000-job_576014.html


http://dailybail.com/home/obamas-stimulus-plan-will-cost-250000-per-job.html




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NBC/WSJ poll: American Jobs Act wildly popular with public
By: clo in ROUND
Thu, 13 Oct 11 3:59 AM 		Msg. 35445 of 45651

NBC/WSJ poll: American Jobs Act wildly popular with public
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

By John Aravosis (DC) on 10/12/2011 08:04:00 PM

NBC/WSJ:

Even though the United States Senate on Tuesday blocked President Obama's jobs bill, the legislation's specifics -- as well as the idea of taxing the wealthy to pay for it -- are popular with the American public, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

When asked simply if Congress should pass the legislation or not, 30 percent of respondents answer yes, while 22 percent say no; 44 percent have no opinion.

But when the legislation's details are included in a follow-up question -- that it would cut payroll taxes, fund new road construction, extend unemployment benefits, and that it would be paid for by increasing taxes on the wealthy -- 63 percent say they favor the bill and 32 percent oppose it.

What's more, 64 percent of respondents agree with the statement that it is a "good idea" to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations, because they should pay their fair share and can afford to pay more to help fund programs and government operations. 


Democrats need to be careful with this. The public is ambivalent on "health care reform," but they love the details of it, as we learned in previous polls. Just because the public likes the details doesn't mean that the GOP won't be able to convince them to hate the deal overall. Don't get me wrong, these numbers are great. But they still contain a warning for Dems that messaging counts.

http://www.americablog.com/2011/10/nbcwsj-poll-american-jobs-act-wildly.html

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