Americans Still Lack Confidence in Banking System
Though most Americans are not worried their money will be lost due to a bank failure, their confidence in the banking system remains low.
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March 3, 2011
March 3, 2011
Wisconsin Poll: Support for Budget Cutting, Not for Weakening Collective Bargaining Rights
Most Wisconsin voters oppose efforts to weaken collective bargaining rights for union workers but a plurality are supportive of significant pay cuts for state workers. Governor Scott Walker is struggling in the court of public opinion, but how badly he is struggling depends upon how the issue is presented. There is also an interesting gap between the views of private and public sector union families.
March 3, 2011
“Collectively” Bad By Howard Rich
A decade ago, when our national debt stood at a “mere” $5.6 trillion, the federal government was already dramatically overpaying its employees to perform all sorts of non-core functions.
March 3, 2011
Government Shutdown No Longer a 'Train Wreck' By Michael Barone
Sometimes you get an idea of the way opinion is headed by the phrases you don't hear. Case in point: In all the discussion and debate these past weeks about a possible government shutdown if Congress and President Obama fail to agree on funding bills, I don't recall having heard the phrase "train wreck."
March 3, 2011
58% Say It’s Likely Gas Prices Will Top $5 A Gallon
Most U.S. voters have taken notice of the recent spike in gasoline prices and they believe gas is likely to top the $5 mark by the beginning of summer.
March 3, 2011
Public Workers Join the New Reality By Froma Harrop
Too bad the showdown with public employee unions has come to this, however long in the making. One can be pro-union and still feel a growing resentment at these workers' ability to set their own dream retirement benefits as the private sector's were being amputated. Not that they are to blame. They got what they could -- it's the American way -- though they overplayed their hand by resisting honest efforts to reform government, schools above all.
March 2, 2011
27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-seven percent (27%) of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, February 27. That’s up just one point from last week.
March 2, 2011
66% Believe Government Workers Have More Job Security than Private Sector Workers
Most Americans still believe government workers have more job security than those in the private sector.
March 2, 2011
Obama’s Full Month Ratings Dip Slightly in February
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
March 2, 2011
51% Say U.S. Shouldn’t Have Become Involved in Iraq
Looking back, a slight majority of Likely Voters believe the United States should never have gotten involved in Iraq in the first place. They also believe the mission there was more of a failure than a success.
March 2, 2011
'Tiresome Squabbles of Discontented Affluence' By Tony Blankley
In the same weeks that are seeing the Middle East (with all its oil and geopolitical significance) begin to transform itself into we know not what, important economists are predicting that, if current trends continue, not only China, but India also will within a generation have larger economies than ours. And, of course, with strong economies almost inevitably come equivalently strong military capacities.
March 2, 2011
Plurality Says Labor Unions Have Too Much Influence According to CBS/NY Times Poll
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of American adults think labor unions have “too much influence on American life and politics today,” according to a recently released CBS News/New York Times poll. Only half as many (19%) believe that unions have too little influence.
March 1, 2011
Most Voters Express Little Knowledge of Obama's Energy and Education Secretaries
President Obama’s agenda includes an emphasis on education and utilizing clean energy, but most voters don’t know the Cabinet members the president is depending on to lead policy in these areas.
March 1, 2011
Partisan Trends: 35.1% Are Republicans, 34.3% Democrats
The number of American Adults identifying themselves as Republicans fell for the second straight month in February. The number of Democrats fell as well.
March 1, 2011
61% Say Complete U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Iraq Unlikely This Year
A plurality of voters fears that the growing unrest in the Arab world will have a negative impact on the fragile political situation in Iraq, and most think it is unlikely that all U.S. troops will be out of that country by the end of the year as planned.
March 1, 2011
The Left Wing Needs an Update By Froma Harrop
Though I deem myself a sort-of liberal, I don't closely read the left-wing magazine The Nation. Its views don't budge for decades at a time, so one can get by just checking in now and then.
March 1, 2011
53% See Proposed GOP Budget Cuts As Pretty Insignificant
Congress is stalemated as Democrats fight $57 billion in spending cuts Republicans want to make in the federal budget for 2011, but most voters continue to believe that even the proposed GOP cuts won’t make a significant dent in the deficit.
March 1, 2011
SUCCEEDING IN YOUR BUSINESS: When a Business Has 'Two Sets Of Books'
"My spouse and I have been looking to buy a business for some time. We've found a good local business with a great location and lots of existing customers.
March 1, 2011
Tax or Spend? The Final Chapter By Debra J. Saunders
I am reluctant to join the chorus of scolds who chide Republicans for opposing Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to put a tax-increase extension on a special election ballot in June.
