NBC/WSJ Poll: Despite Defeat, Obama’s Jobs Bill is Popular
Hmm. The respondents were asked if Congress should pass his jobs bill. 30% said yes, 22% said no, 44% had no opinion. When they were given details about the bill, 63% said they favor the bill and 32% oppose it. Personally, I think more people support it rather than oppose it, even initially, because it’s something.
There are things I really like about the bill. I like the tax credits to companies who will hire long term unemployed people. I also like the extension of the payroll tax cut. When we regular working people have a little extra money in the paycheck, many of us tend to spend it. More groceries, maybe a night out. All that spending helps the economy.
I also like putting money toward infrastructure so we can get people working again. For me, it’s a win win. This is happening in the city next to mine. They’re building a natural gas power plant. 400 construction workers who haven’t had a job in a year are now working, and this is just the beginning. When it is up and running, we get an efficient, cleaner source of energy – for over 600K homes.
The increased taxes on the wealthy is what made it DOA for House and Senate Republicans. It will be chopped up and presented to them. It makes me ask them, “Since you don’t like it, are you willing to look at the different parts of it to pass what you do like? If nothing is acceptable, do you have a jobs plan in place? Not just ‘no increased taxes on the job creators?’ Or the equally murky, ‘stop getting in the way of business?’ Do you have a solid plan to offer as an alternative?”
If you have a plan, share it! Maybe there’s stuff in it those on “the other side of the aisle” will like too. Or at least work with what he gave you. Don’t shut the door and say “no” just because his name is on it. That crap is getting really old.
October 13th, 2011 at 12:42 AM
Ahhhhhhh…..You’re just a socialist……
That’s what someone said to me after expressing my disdain for the Right and the political games they’re playing….They’ll stand in the way of any plan that has even a slim chance of improving the economy while Obama is in office…
October 13th, 2011 at 3:34 PM
I can get a Che beret, and since we’re socialists, we can share.
October 13th, 2011 at 5:49 AM
Yeah, we’re going to roll into – or stagger into – the next election in a sorrier state because the Republicans in congress are hell bent to make Obama fail. They won’t allow him a single success. I do so find it very difficult to drum up charity for Republicans these days. Give me a reason to back off my cynicism, please, folks.
October 13th, 2011 at 3:35 PM
I got nothing.
October 13th, 2011 at 9:56 PM
Their “intentions are good,” so many of them say.
October 13th, 2011 at 5:53 AM
Right on Terrance … the bill may not be perfect, but it is obstructionism at its best. Watching the reactions to the individual fragments (if broken up).
October 13th, 2011 at 3:46 PM
I’m really glad that you, as an Independent/Moderate, are noticing this.
October 13th, 2011 at 5:36 PM
See … we’re not all that bad. LOL … but the right scares the heck out of me.
October 14th, 2011 at 1:37 PM
Aww never said you guys were. You all are the belles of the ball, though. Everyone wants to dance with you.
October 13th, 2011 at 9:27 AM
The country and economy needs immediate help…Obama’s plan does that anything the Repubs are offering is a plan that takes 5 to 7 years to be realized…….most economists say that the Obama bill will most likely save the economy from another recession….but that is not important….2012 is!
October 13th, 2011 at 3:47 PM
Remember? Their number one goal was to make sure that Obama is a one-term president.
October 13th, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Independent economists admit that under Obama’s admittedly too-small jobs plan, the economy will grow and somewhere around 2 million folks will be put to work. While that is not enough, it ain’t nothin’.
I’m worried that Dems will agree with Republicans to pass a couple of elements of the plan–like the payroll tax cuts–and not pass enough of the plan to do any real good. The GOP will then run on their willingness to cooperate with the President and also run on Obama’s “failures” regarding the economy.
October 13th, 2011 at 3:45 PM
While that is not enough, it ain’t nothin’.
Thank you! It’s something.
I really hope that doesn’t happen, but that scenario isn’t far fetched at all.
October 13th, 2011 at 9:29 PM
of course the rethugs have a solution to the unemployment crisis–another bill to block abortions!
October 13th, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Nonnie,
It does much, much more than block abortions. It puts women in danager, and as a pro-lifer, I’m totally against it. It allows hospitals to deny a LIFE SAVING abortion. It’s obscene.
October 14th, 2011 at 1:40 PM
With all the economy and jobs talk, it’s like it came out of nowhere. I don’t get it. And the fact that they would let a pregnant woman die is just sickening to me.
October 14th, 2011 at 7:06 AM
This sort of thing makes me feel quite hopeless about the future.
October 14th, 2011 at 1:43 PM
I’m already hopeless, but sorry if I was contagious.
October 14th, 2011 at 3:05 PM
Belles at the ball … LOL …. yep, everyone wants our vote to get elected, then cast us aside when it comes time for policy. At this moment for 2012, I see the majority of independents casting a vote against someone, as opposed to voting for. Which also means, get ready for disappointment.
October 16th, 2011 at 12:45 AM
Loving and leaving you fast
Actually, that’s what I heard about 2008. Some couldn’t stand the thought of McCain/Palin, so a lot of Independents/Moderates voted for Obama.
It’s always disappointing when people feel like they’re choosing between the lesser of two evils, no?
January 31st, 2012 at 12:09 AM
Last week, President Obama addressed the Nation once an individual calendar year in business. He produced it very clear that the emphasis of energy will now shift from mega bailouts to encouraging minimal business venture. This is a exceptionally strategic transfer, and wholly in sync with demographic tendencies. Supporting the begin up and expansion of minimal corporations will allow the market but added importantly, will play a essential function in task development by using a direct impact on the unemployed either as a result of incentives to initiate a minimal business or supplying funds to raise minimal firms and making it possible for them to employ the service of new personnel. In addition, such a aim spreads the success a good deal more than the large bailouts, so a bit more People in america will in reality profit from the incentives, and thus, there will be a essential quantity of community assistance for these varieties of economic measures. But most relevant of all, Obama’s new job opportunities expenses is a indicator of the instances – will not count on the good sized businesses for your stability.
February 1st, 2012 at 10:40 PM
Hopefully, we’ll see more people employed with this shift in emphasis.
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