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Support strong, but not a deciding issue
Monday, Dec 23, 2013 - Posted by Rich Miller * Public Policy Polling has a new survey of some targeted congressional districts about the issue of cutting off extended unemployment insurance benefits that we talked about in an earlier post. One of the districts polled was that of freshman GOP Congressman Rodney Davis…
* While support for extending the benefits is quite strong across the board, it doesn’t appear to be a deciding issue that people will actually vote on. Here are PPP’s numbers of those who would be more likely or less likely to vote for those who cast a vote to cut off the benefits…
* This year’s government shutdown hurt everybody’s poll numbers, including Davis’, whose overall approval/disapproval is 33/35, the poll found. 573 voters surveyed December 19th and 20th, with a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percent.
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- wordslinger - Monday, Dec 23, 13 @ 9:44 am:
The deficit hawks don’t get it. Now is not the time to pull spending power out of the economy. That’s the only thing that’s going to finally get us out of the ditch.
- fed up - Monday, Dec 23, 13 @ 12:30 pm:
wordslinger,
while I support unemployement insurance because it is generally put right back into the economy, when would you deem a good time to start working on our countries huge debt problem. Its been 6 years,
- Rich Miller - Monday, Dec 23, 13 @ 12:31 pm:
===Its been 6 years===
You must’ve missed the 80s.
- wordslinger - Monday, Dec 23, 13 @ 1:06 pm:
Fed Up, in a robust economy.
Take the 80s. Large deficits, then payed down in the 90s.
Lot of good stuff here.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1900_2010&view=1&expand=&units=p&fy=fy11&chart=G0-fed&bar=0&stack=1&size=l&title=US%20Federal%20Deficit%20As%20Percent%20Of%20GDP&state=US&color=c&local=s%23copypaste
- RNUG - Monday, Dec 23, 13 @ 3:08 pm:
This is one of damned if you do, damned if you don’t items. Now that the economy is kind of recovering, keeping it at two years is probably overkill. But scaling it back to just the initial 6 months immediately is also an overreaction. As the recession deepened, it was gradually scaled up; we should probably adopt that model and gradually scale it back.