It is clear Americans don't want this Bill

From The Freedom Project:

2/6/2009
Winston Examines Surveys on the Dems' Trillion-Dollar Spending Bill

Dave Winston of The Winston Group has a great breakdown of the CBS survey on Democrats' trillion-dollar spending bill. Winston notes some of CBS' key findings, including:

• 45 percent of voters do not think a massive spending bill will shorten the recession.  Only 39 percent think it will.
  
  
• 81 percent of Democrats "think it is important for the bill to have support of both parties." Congressional Democrats are clearly in the other 19 percent.
  
  
• And "Americans prefer tax cuts over increased government spending by almost a 3:1 margin to get us out of the recession." This puts Republicans on the same side as most voters, as theGOP economic recovery plan uses fast-acting tax relief – not government spending – to create twice as many jobs, twice as fast, and at half the cost of the Democrats' plan.

These findings mirror other recent surveys that show public support for a trillion-dollar spending bill slipping.  Read the whole post.

In another must-read article, Charles Krauthammer blasts the bill by Congressional Democrats as "not just bad, not just flawed, but a legislative abomination":

"It's not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It's not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for new construction for Milwaukee Public Schools, which, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, have shrinking enrollment, 15 vacant schools and, quite logically, no plans for new construction. "It's the essential fraud of rushing through a bill in which the normal rules (committee hearings, finding revenue to pay for the programs) are suspended on the grounds that a national emergency requires an immediate job-creating stimulus -- and then throwing into it hundreds of billions that have nothing to do with stimulus, that Congress's own budget office says won't be spent until 2011 and beyond, and that are little more than the back-scratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism that Obama came to Washington to abolish. He said."

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