45% of Americans oppose stimulus spending
So it is, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday. Thus far only the Washington Times and Weekly Standard are reporting on this.
As Obama enters his fifth month in office, it’s clear now that this is his, not Bush’s country. Further, he is certainly in full swing of enacting his sweeping legislation.
And so it will be interesting to see the poll numbers come in over the coming months, as federal government spending and our deficits mount, and as more initiatives get pushed through like the “compensation czar” who sets salaries and retirement benefits at a number of companies that received government support.
My hypothesis is that the majority of Americans will be opposed to a number of programs that he’s pushing forward, like the compensation czar. We Americans are skeptical of Wall Streeters, but we’re even more skeptical of the government, and I think when push comes to shove, we’d rather have bankers running around our stock markets than government pencil pushers.
