Today's Stimulus Tidbits
Did you hear about the President's Stimulus-spending house parties? David Adams suggests a better alternative:
Fortunately, this package is building strong negative momentum:
wouldn't we be doing more to generate an actual economic recovery if we were getting neighbors together to really generate economic activity, such as one might do in a real direct selling organization, rather than trying to "connect the recovery plan to their lives?"Meanwhile, Obama was all over TV last night claiming that only 1% of the stimulus was pork. Not only is it ridiculous for him to excuse 1% waste as appropriate, it is also a false assessment, as the Club for Growth points out.
Fortunately, this package is building strong negative momentum:
New Poll -- Stimulus Support Drops to 37%
The latest Rasmussen Reports poll "found that 37% favor the legislation, 43% are opposed, and 20% are not sure," the first time a plurality of voters opposed the bill.
Last week, support dropped like a rock among independents. This week Rasmussen reports that 64% of Democrats support the bill, but that's down from 74% last week.
Rasmussen also reported today that "Fifty percent (50%) of U.S. voters say the final economic recovery plan that emerges from Congress is at least somewhat likely to make things worse rather than better, but 39% say such an outcome is not likely."
