CBS: 89% of public thinks stimulus has not created jobs

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

STIMULUS PACKAGE AND JOBS
Has created jobs 6%
Has not, but will create jobs 41%
Will not create jobs 48%

Jeez people... of course the stimulus has created jobs. That is beyond dispute. So as a literal statement this poll result is amazing... the (indisputably true) idea that the stimulus has created jobs polls about as well as the idea that the Earth is flat.

Yet people are fairly hopeful that the stimulus will create jobs later though believing it hasn't so far, which is almost comical. The stimulus package DID create some jobs but it will NOT do as much going forward as it did in the past.

On the other hand, if someone interprets "create jobs" as meaning "net jobs in the economy" then of course the stimulus did not acheive that. There are fewer jobs today then when it was passed.

Bottom line: People don't know what the stimulus was, don't know what it did and don't know what it will do.

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Has reasonable solutions to your economic problems:

Obama: 40%
Democrats: 29%
Republicans: 22%

(This is not a 3-choice question. People could say all three do or none do.)

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WHICH PARTY WOULD DO BETTER ON…?

Health care: R-27% D-44%
Creating jobs: R-36% D-42%
Economy: R-42% D-37%

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S APPROVAL RATINGS
Approve Disapprove
Economy 42% 52
Health care 35% 55

Striking that the public separates "economy" from jobs. I have no idea what people think the Republicans would do the the economy, but they narrowly favor them on that item.

Note that only 22% think Republicans "have reasonable solutions to your economic problems" but 42% think they would do a better job on the economy. Go figure.

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JOB CREATION AND THE DEFICIT

Govt should spend to create jobs 47%
Govt should lower deficit 45%

The public obviously didn't get the memo on this one... according to the conventional wisdom crowd they are way more concerned about the deficit than about jobs. Bad public! Read your talking points.

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IN ORDER TO LOWER DEFICIT, DECREASE SPENDING ON…?

Health care and education: Willing 30% Not willing 62%
Military: Willing 45% Not willing 51%

Again the public gets their guess at what they think wrong. We all know that deficit reduction is all about discretionary social programs. Reducing military spending would be crazy! Silly public.


Poll results (but not snarky commentary) from:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_Obama_Congress_021110.pdf

[Raven]

1. People have to see jobs produced, not just told about it. If they

can't see themselves or people around them being employed through the stimulus, why should they believe it? Because some politician told them so? I know there have been jobs created, infrastructure construction, saved police and fire jobs, but I just don't think it has reached most people yet.

[JVS]

2. Did it? I've heard a lot of shifting from talk about "making" jobs to the "saving" jobs.

Also, people might be considering the net-job situation.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. The stimulus package definitely created jobs (in addition to saving jobs)

But, as you note, since unemployment is higher than it was before the stimulus the answer makes sense... despite being incorrect.

[mrcheerful]

4. In other news 50% of republicons think saddam sent the 9/11 folks, 54% think Saddam

had WMD's and they will be found before the end of the century. And 12% think the earth is the center of the universe. Oh, plus 29% of Americans think dinosaur's were used as beasts of burden 6,000 years ago.

[NJmaverick]

5. The result of a coordinated misinformation campaign by the right wingers

along with neglect from the left

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. I have to knock the Administration a bit on this one....

I don't think they've been coordinated in getting this story out to the voters and to the media (in that order). The perception is that Obama has done more for Wall Street than for Main Street, and I haven't seen a lot of work by the Administration to contradict that.

Whatever the truth might be, the consequences are always real.

[HughMoran]

6. Name 5 people you know that understand how the economy works

You know, like simple concepts like 'not losing' a job is important when in free fall?



Of course you don't, because Americans are uninformed idiots.

[OHdem10]

7. Congress sent the money to the states. The Governors have left

the impression that they did all these good things, especially
Republican Govs who trash spending while spending the stimulus
and yelling Aint I just grand???

[scheming daemons]

9. In related news... 89% of Americans can't tell their asshole from a hole in the wall

...

[ProSense]

10. WHICH PARTY WOULD DO BETTER ON…

Economy: R-42% D-37%


Who the hell did they poll: people who slept through the last eight years?

[Cha]

11. People who listen to limpbaugh

and fauxsn00ze..I don't watch cbs "news" so I don't know if they give accurate accounts or not?

This could be a bogus poll wanting the pukes to take over 2010, as far as I trust any US corporatemeida.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

12. Okay unrecazoids... why is it bad for people to see this thread?

Workin' at MiniTrue for free.

[FrenchieCat]

13. 89% don't think.