Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 10, 2009

America wants Obama's porkulus spending bill cancelled

Americans want the porkulus package canceled. Now.

From Rassmussen Reports:

Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans say the rest of the new government spending authorized in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan should now be canceled. A new Rasmussen Report national telephone survey found that just 36% disagree and 20% are not sure.

According to news reports, only $36 billion of the stimulus plan had been spent as of late May.

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President Obama on Monday vowed to speed up the pace of stimulus spending and said the money will help “create or save” 600,000 more jobs this summer.

However, only 31% of Americans believe the new government spending in the stimulus package creates new jobs. Forty-eight percent (48%) say the stimulus spending does not create jobs, and 21% are not sure.

Americans have mixed feelings about whether speeding up the new government spending in the stimulus package will help the economy. Thirty-nine percent (39%) say the increased spending will be good for the economy, but 44% say it will be bad. Eight percent (8%) think it will have no impact.

From Hot Air:

Why keep the tax cuts while dumping the spending? Tax cuts allow people to spend money themselves, instead of trusting Joe Biden to spend it for them. It also pushes capital back to the market, which creates jobs, rather than into government where it gets spent inefficiently and thus far hasn’t created anything except summer jobs and temp positions for the Census.

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No group believes that Porkulus actually stimulated the economy or created jobs, almost four months after its passage. A majority believe that government spending is either bad for the economy or has no impact on it. Fifty-six percent of Democrats believe that Porkulus spending should continue, a pretty slim majority considering the central nature of the policy to the party, but independents favor killing it 44%-32%. Almost all income levels strongly favor cancellation, except for the under-$20K demographic, which splits on the question.

The Democrats have a great deal of political exposure on this question.

Thanks to the political tone-deafness of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama allowed Democrats in Congress to railroad Porkulus while garnering only three Republican votes, one of whom is now a Democratic vote.

Instead of allowing the GOP to participate in the bill’s creation and spreading the responsibility for its eventual failure on both parties, the Democrats own this like no other policy in Washington DC — and they’re about to reap a whirlwind as unemployment and the deficit both vault ever higher…

America is speaking loudly. Will Washington listen? Will Obama listen? Heck, I’m sure he’s listening… but he’s just blowing us off, doing what he wants. He’s scoffing at us silly Americans, thinking he’s wiser and knows far better what he should do with the money from those who voted for him and for whom he represents as president.

Hot Air: Limbaugh: Obama’s going to try for a third term or something and Chart of the Day: The Laffer Spike
NEOAVATARA: Obama’s Stimulus Is Failing
Random-American: Biden says ‘everyone guessed wrong’ on the economic stimulus
Legal Insurrection: For Crying Out Loud: “Barack Obama Deficit-Slayer”
GayPatriot: What Hath the Democrats Wrought? and If Arlen Specter Had Voted Against the “Stimulus”…
San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate: State cuts tax exemptions for kids
Examiner.com: Government Workers Should Not be Exempt from Economic Pain
Michelle Malkin: Americans shifting to the right (Snowe and Collins not listening)
Jim Blazsik: Peace through strength: a Reagan lesson for Barack Obama

Not all left-wing liberals are still smitten with Obama:

Brian Maloney, The Radio Equalizer: NO HOLDS BARR-ED, Libtalker Roseanne Barr Denounces Obama On Leftist Radio Program

Categories: Economy, Government, Social and Political Climate
Tags: citizens against government waste, deficit spending, Democrat, economic depression, economic free-fall, government waste, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Obama money, political, politics, pork, porkulus, stimulus bill, taxation, taxes, taxpayers, Washington DC