Only 28 percent of Americans believe rebate checks will boost economy.
By on Apr 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Only 28 percent of Americans believe rebate checks will boost economy.
As most Americans “await the arrival of rebate checks from the federal government aimed at boosting the U.S. economy,” a Zogby poll released today “finds just 28 [percent] believe the government’s economic stimulus rebate plan will help.” The poll also found that 68 percent of Americans “disagree with the idea of the federal government stepping in to help investment companies that are suffering because of their heavy investments in worthless mortgages.”
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April 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pmLemme guess — these are the same 28% who believe Bush is doing a great job? who believe we are right to invade and beat the crap out of other countries? who believe that Bush has kept us from terrorist attacks? who believe that we’re not in a recession, but making the tax cuts permanent will fix it? who believe the moon is made of green cheese?
That 28%?
April 1st, 2008 at 6:04 pm28 percent of Americans are incapable of independant thought and have to have the RNC to their thinking for them.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:05 pmFunny how these figures tend to coincide with the amount of people who still give this (mis)administration a good grade.
I bet it’s the same out-of-touch, the-Earth-is-flat crowd…
April 1st, 2008 at 6:06 pmInstead of passing out some money to some Americans, they should have used the 140 billion to begin to fund National Healthcare. Everyone who could afford it, could have begun paying smaller payments than they have been into the fund, including employers and individuals, and that REALLY would have stimulated the economy.
I refuse to believe that the world as we know it will end if the health insurance companies can’t continue to profit while denying care to people.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:07 pmWhat about the free market. I don’t believe that these companies going broke would affect our economy any more than the destruction of our major automobile manufacturing companies……..that was allowed to happen.
I contend that a dozen new banks will crop up over night to take the place of each one that goes broke from it’s own bad business practices.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:07 pmI think it’s also the same percentage who believe in UFOs, if I’m not mistaken.
(I’d also like to ask if anyone else is having a problem commenting using Firefox… the text of each sentence goes outside of the white box to the right onto the black page.)
April 1st, 2008 at 6:09 pmEVER NOTICE HOW NO MATTER WHAT POLL COMES OUT….THAT 30% OF THE U.S. POPULATION IS COMPLETELY STUPID?
THE ONLY POLLS WHERE ALMOST EVERYONE IS IN AGREEMENT IS THEIR HATRED FOR CHENEY
April 1st, 2008 at 6:12 pmDick Cheney: “So?”
April 1st, 2008 at 6:12 pmThose darn 28%ers, the never learn, never question, lemmings, if Bush says that your rebate is going to stimulate the economy, then by gosh, it’s gonna.
Couple of fill ups, and your done. Won’t stimulate jack sh!t, but most of the country already knows that.
And does this not throw the country into even more debt?
Maybe Bush is hoping that this will hold off the up coming Depression till he is out of office?
April 1st, 2008 at 6:24 pmHey! 28 percenters! Here’s a goober. Have fun.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:33 pmWhen talk first arose of an economic stimulus plan, my thought was that it should be a major public works and infrastructure improvement program. It would provide jobs and inject cash into the economy, it would shore up crumbling infrastructure, and improved infrastructure would improve overall economic performance (better roads to keep the trucks rolling, etc.).
April 1st, 2008 at 6:48 pmMost people are going to pay off bills and credit cards with their measly 600 bucks which won’t do anything to stimulate the economy. That takes new spending which no one can afford.
So…they are giving us our own money in hopes to stimulate the economy. And we have to claim it as income on next year’s income tax.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:54 pmi talked to my tax guy the other day, about this and other questions…
he said that as far as he knew, this was an actual rebate, won’t be included
as “income” on next year’s taxes… we exchanged more words about this
sorry economy and i asked, “can i just sign it and send it on to OBAMA?”
and he said, “that’s what i’d do!”…
so, that’s what i’m gonna do.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:54 pmprogressisgood Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 7:01 pm
The Dow industrials were recently up 378.77 points, or 3.1%, to 12,641.66, with all 30 components posting gains. Shares of Citigroup Inc. (C) led the way, up 9.6%.
CNN Money
worng again!!! HAHAHA we’re going to be fine!!
Whoopee! Another 6 months of gains like that and the stock market will be back to where it was when Bill Clinton left office. The budget deficit–not so much.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:10 pmYou just have to love those 28%. These must be the folks that per Sen Hagel, live in the Alice and Wonderland world that up is down and down is up. They must be the same ones that say that when the violence in Iraq goes down, we’re succeeding and when it goes up, we’re still succeeding.
With the cost of gasoline, the shy rocketing cost of goods associated with that, throw in the fact that jobs are diminishing with no hopes of returning, a government that still begs illegals to come work for slave wages, stagnant wages for the middle class, loss of revenue for tax breaks for the rich with no cure for the AMT, college cost that have soared, a $2 billion a day loan from China without enough product going out to back it up, and, oh yes, we have an ongoing War On Fear that we haven’t even put a pencil to with any consideration of repaying, unemployment escalating, folks losing their homes in record numbers,, plus the fact of disregarding economist that have been warning the Bush administration for the past several years of runaway spending, elimination of credit predatory laws, K Street gone wild, an out of control debit, and a housing bubble( that they insisted was sound) ready to explode,28% think the $600 chicken-in-every-pot is somehow suppose to make all this mess go away. That’s just too funny.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:11 pmthemanwhostillcan’tspell –
worng again!!!
As usual, WRONG again. What an idiot, posts crap all day and spells it wrong all day, you’d think that it would get tired of embarrassing itself here.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:16 pm#6 – Funny you should bring up the idea of more banks cropping up in light of the others failing.
I had to make some bank runs a few weeks ago and noticed that there are several new banks popping up here in Sarasota.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:17 pmNobodys prefect,buckie. I thot i was worng once butt i was mistakin.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:19 pmGotta shake your head and laugh at these low quality trolls,huh?
Yeah, specialist f, everyone makes typos, but this low IQ troll makes some really awful ones that are 5th grade level grammar. I just like pointing out this ones mistakes because it’s posts are just regressive talking points, nothing original, nothing substantive.
Whack a Troll, sport of champions.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:29 pmjeannie – my favorite aunt lives in sarasota… other ties too…
…
in my illinois small town of 14,000, there are 3 new banks being built…
what’s that about?
April 1st, 2008 at 7:32 pmi’m guessing that english is not the first language of that one…
April 1st, 2008 at 7:34 pmguessing that’s because it is not even in the USA…
or the same hemisphere…
Optimus Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Buckie Boy,
The Democrat Congress agreed to the rebate check. Do you deny this? Keep up the spin!
But it wasn’t their idea, as you lied in your previous post. And the spin is all out of the Liar-In-Chief’s maw. this is Bush’s way of keeping you 20%s happily ignorant while screwing the rest of the citizenry. nice try, but you’re really too stupid to get away with lying and the blame game.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:42 pmThere will always be about one third of this country who will always be dumb, cowardly, sniveling little cretins who hate science, freedom, and America. Really not surprised at this number, sadly.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pmOptimus Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Buckie Boy,
The Democrat Congress agreed to the rebate check. Do you deny this? Keep up the spin!
Yo, Optimus — can I give you a hint? “Democrat Congress” is incorrect. You see, “Democrat” is a noun. The adjective you want is “Democratic”… “Democratic Congress”.
See the difference?
I only mention this because I know some people — not you, but some people –seem to use the term “Democrat” as an adjective as some sort of slight, some kind of petty insult. To the rest of us, though, it just makes them sound, y’know, ignorant.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:49 pmOptimus=realprogressive sock puppet.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:54 pmYour cousin just got back from Iraq,huh? Why don’t you join up and do your part???
progressisgood Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 7:01 pm
The Dow industrials were recently up 378.77 points, or 3.1%, to 12,641.66, with all 30 components posting gains. Shares of Citigroup Inc. (C) led the way, up 9.6%.
CNN Money
worng again!!! HAHAHA we’re going to be fine!!
And you work in finance in New York? No, well I do and you’re an idiot. One day of stock market gains means nothing. Have you looked at the dollar? So go back to collecting cans and your minimum wage existence and let people who actually know finance and economics discuss matters.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:02 pmOptimus Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
ralph the wonder llama,
You still didn’t answer the question. The DemoKKK-Rat Congress passed this, why do you give them a pass.
Oh, I see. I gave the benefit of a doubt you didn’t deserve. You are petty, as well as ignorant. Congratulations.
How do you know of my position on either the “Stimulus Package” or the Democratic Congress? Specifically, how do you know whether I think the Stimulus Package is a good idea or not?
If I believed it were a good idea, your assumption would be wrong.
Even if I believed it a foolish waste of taxpayer money, you still have no idea whether I hold the Democratic (see how it’s done? It’s not that hard) Congress accountable for their passage of it, along with the Republican minority.
Lots of assumptions there, optimouse. None of them justified. My guess is that you’re comfortable with that.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:05 pmOptimus Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 7:59 pm
specialist f ,
The strawman chickhawk argument. Especially done by a traitor GI that ratted out to Al-Qaeda in Iraq our convoy paths so they can use their IED’s. My cousin told me about you traitors. Always complaining and whining. That’s why some of you died from friendly fire! You know what I’m talking about
I flagged your ass, you cowardly loser. So a pedophile convention in Cabo I see….?
April 1st, 2008 at 8:08 pmAll I have to say to Opti-puss is he’d better hope I never meet up with his sorry goat smellin’ ass! I’ll flag the loser yet again and move on. Pathetic coward and tough guy behind it’s keyboard!
April 1st, 2008 at 8:15 pmblue state bob Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
we had growtrh last quarter! And this one is starting to look postive also!! what is your answer to that MR Wall Street!!
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The stock market is lower than it was 7 years ago adjusted for inflation, the dollar is in the tank (as someone who goes to abroad a lot, hard to do living in your mom’s basement, I see it first hand, we are in debt (both the government and the populace) up to our eyeballs, and London has actually become the economic center of the world replacing New York. But you watch Fox Business, so I guess you know better.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:22 pmAre our tax dollars really paying for these trolls?? Can I get my money back???They really do SUCK!
April 1st, 2008 at 8:23 pmI flagged your ass, you cowardly loser. So a pedophile convention in Cabo I see….?blue state bob
April 1st, 2008 at 8:27 pmThanks,Bob. I think the best thing to do is not engage these stupid trolls,just keep fraggin’… I mean flaggin’ them.
Optimus is correct that Democrats introduced and pushed the stimulus bill through. That’s a fact. I think we can all agree that this isn’t going to do much to save us from the Republican’s destructive years and yeah, it could have been better spent.
It’s also a fact that we’re seeing the most obstructive Senate in history. The Republican senate have filibustered everything that’s been introduced, even when they’re for them! Seriously! This has been mainly compliments of Mitch McConnell.
So, the reality is that the stimulus package was something that unless the Republicans let fly, they’d pay dearly in November. Politics? Yes. But, considering the screwing the working man had taken in the Bush/lapdog Republican years, the reckless spending to advance the rich, and the absolute disregard and contempt for the less than wealthy, this was really a take it or leave it deal. Or perhaps, the very best that Democrats could do with a roadblocking and obstructing group of Bush lickers. Is it a cure all? Hell no. It’s simply a tad of relief that can hopefully get us through until the Bush regime is dethroned.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:43 pm