Apparently, George Bush’s Thursday night speech wasn’t very persuasive, because voters continue to oppose the financial industry bailout plan by overwhelming numbers:
The more voters learn about the proposed $700-billion taxpayer-backed Wall Street rescue plan, the less they like it. Most voters remain largely unworried about their own money, too.
Just 24% of U.S. voters now favor the plan first proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a week ago and the subject of very public negotiations on Capitol Hill ever since, according to a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Friday night. Fifty percent (50%) oppose it, and 25% are undecided.
Six–out-of-10 voters (60%) remain worried that the federal government will do too much to bailout the ailing financial markets. Only 28% think the government will not do enough.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of investors oppose the plan, and 63% of them worry the government will do too much.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans think politicians are more interested in gaining additional power than in fixing the economy with the proposed $700-billion taxpayer-backed financial rescue plan.
Thirty percent (30%) say they’re more interested in righting the troubled economy, according to a new Rasmussen reports national telephone survey taken Thursday and Friday nights. Nineteen percent (19%) aren’t sure.
But then one-third of adults (33%) believe U.S. political leaders are trying to scare Americans into supporting the bailout proposal by making the economy seem worse than it really is. Only slightly more (39%) disagree, and 27% are undecided.
And yet the political class on both sides of the aisle seems to be moving forward with this bailout with little apparent concern for what the public actually wants or thinks.
[...] public may not want it, but Congressional leaders say that they are close to completeing work on a bailout of the banking [...]
Bail out bill agreement reached – Yipee! My tax money is going to work!…
Well the Washington Post just broke news that the bailout will happen. Why do I feel such joy in my heart and pride for my legislators? I mean, they took less than a week to craft a bill, that even now we as members of the public have precious detail a…
VOTERS…
WALL STREET WONT PAY?…THEN CONGRESS WILL…GET ANGRY! GET ACTIVE!
1. Send letter to via these websites:
a. Pre-formatted to congress:http://capwiz.com/jbs/issues/alert/?alertid=11963861
b. DNC (dems) http://www.democrats.org/page/st/contactissues
c. RNC (reps) (chairman email address) Chairman@gop.com
2. Send this out to your reps, bloggers, others etc…
VOTERS…
WALL STREET WONT PAY?…THEN CONGRESS WILL…GET ANGRY! GET ACTIVE!
you do have power, underneath the apathy. ..and watching TV reruns…
I pose this (and do pass this catchy phrase/idea on)
OUT-INcumbents who BAILOUT
Go down your voter cards etc…and where you see the name of those voting for this garbage…vote them out…and pass this on like internet wildfire…
OUT-INcumbents who BAILOUT
GET ANGRY, GET ACTIVE
OUT-INCUMBENTS!
TAKE AMERICA BACK!
Please pass this on…to congressional reps, others, other websites etc…don’t be resigned to being screwed.
I am totally against the bailout. Let the free enterprise system work. Paulson, Frank, Dodd, Polosi, Reid and other democrats should be presecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
You’re right, Doug. Uncle Scam has mercilessly screwed America.
As a U.S. Marine veteran of the Cold War era, I am taken aback of the crimes being committed on Capitol Hill.
Since the AIG scandal, I’ve been inundated with letters of protest and with requests to formally form a multi-partisan Weblog movement. I will promptly pass along this info to our global Weblog community.
Thank you very much for posting this Weblog entry. You are very kind to post it.
Wil Ford, U.S.M.C.
Wil’s Domain