For the First Time– Plurality in US Now Believe the Obama Stimulus Bill Hurt the Economy

Obama and Democrats tripled the national deficit in less than one year with their $787 billion failed stimulus.

Obama increased the national debt to $12 Trillion.
And he nearly doubled the unemployment rate from the Bush years since his failed Stimulus Plan was passed.

For the first time a plurality of Americans believe the Pelosi-Obama trillion dollar Stimulus boondoggle hurt the economy rather than helped it.
Rasmussen reported:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 30% of voters nationwide believe the $787-billion economic stimulus plan has helped the economy. However, 38% believe that the stimulus plan has hurt the economy. This is the first time since the legislation passed that a plurality has held a negative view of its impact.

The number who believe that the stimulus plan has hurt the economy rose from 28% in September, to 31% in October, and 34% in November before jumping to 38% this month. The week after the president signed the bill, 34% said it would help the economy, while 32% said it would hurt.

#2 December 27, 2009 at 5:37 pm
TaSS commented:

I find it unbelievable that 34% of the American people believe that all this government spending is helping the American economy.
Must be the women that I saw on TV looking for their Obama money. They had no idea where it came from they just knew they were entitled to it.
#3 December 27, 2009 at 5:41 pm
CDR M commented:

Sadly, you can ask people on the street and they won’t be blaming Obama. It’ll still be Bush. Try it next time you’re out and about. America is still stuck on stupid.
#4 December 27, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Chisum commented:

Dave Barry’s year in review: 2009

It was a year of Hope — at first in the sense of “I feel hopeful!” and later in the sense of “I hope this year ends soon!”
It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to a group of fresh, young, idealistic, new-idea outsiders such as Nancy Pelosi. As a result Washington, rejecting “business as usual,” finally stopped trying to solve every problem by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at it and instead started trying to solve every problem by throwing trillions of taxpayer dollars at it.

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/dave-barry/v-print/story/1397654.html
#5 December 27, 2009 at 8:06 pm
BarbaraS commented:

I find it really hard to understand how the dumbells who don’t think the stimulus didn’t hurt the economy can believe this garbage. How could the stimulus possibly help the economy when it was nothing but a pay-off to dem cronies? The truth is the dems looted the treasury. They had the means to do so and did.
The economy cannot possibly be helped by a sky high deficit. We are rapidly becoming a poor country…unable to buy the goodwill of the rest of the world.