I was surfing the web and found these interesting polls. What was more interesting was the results. I thought I should share them…

With our new president in office and our economy still in the gutter, American’s are starting to question if “change” is really coming. In a recent survey at the Wall Street Journal, 49 key economists were asked if they are satisfied with Barack Obama’s current economic policies. The majority of the economists thought president Obama is doing a horrible job with our weakening economy. From an elementary grade scale of 1-100, 42% of those surveyed gave our new president a rating below 60. For those of you that aren’t aware yet (or received all A’s in school…), below 60 is an F.

In addition to the Wall Street Journal, AOL held a poll on their main page yesterday (”Is our president doing a good job?”). I got my vote in, but for those of you that missed out on that poll, I have the results. 49% of American’s believe that Barack Obama is doing “poorly”, while only 25% voted that he is doing an “excellent” job. With more than half of our nation not approving of his work, the economy could be seeing darker days.

Our economy is failing because we spent money we didn’t have. Barack Obama wants to spend more money, that we don’t have, to “stimulate the economy”. This simply does not make any sense. If we are going to use bailout money that we are “borrowing”, we should just pay off the national debt and start everything from scratch.

Sources:
Obama, Geithner Get Low Grades From Economists
Phil Izzo
WSJ.com March 11, 2009

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