58% Favor Government Shutdown Until Spending Cuts Are Agreed Upon

[Peter Pan]

58% Favor Government Shutdown Until Spending Cuts Are Agreed Upon
Monday, February 28,

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...re_agreed_upon

As Republicans and Democrats in Congress haggle over the budget, most voters would rather have a partial shutdown of the federal government than keep its spending at current levels.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 33% of Likely U.S. Voters would rather have Congress avoid a government shutdown by authorizing spending at the same levels as last year. Fifty-eight percent (58%) says it’s better to have a partial shutdown until Democrats and Republicans can agree on what spending to cut. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The partisan differences are striking. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Democrats prefer avoiding a shutdown by going with current spending levels. But 80% of Republicans -- and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party -- think a shutdown is a better option until the two sides can agree on spending cuts.

Congress never passed a budget for 2011 but authorized spending for a few months. That authorization will expire soon, and Congress must act quickly or some federal government services could be shut down. Payments for things like Social Security, Medicare and unemployment benefits would continue, however.

A plurality (48%) of all voters believe that a partial government shutdown would be bad for the economy. Twenty-five percent (25%) say a shutdown would be good for the country economically, while 15% say it would have no impact.

Democrats are worried about the economic impact of a partial government shutdown. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of those in the president’s party say a shutdown would be bad for the economy. However, Republicans and unaffiliated voters are evenly divided on the topic with nearly as many saying a shutdown would be good for the economy as bad.

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on February 24-25, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

In general, just 27% of all voters think Congress should now authorize spending for 2011 at the same levels as last year. Six percent (6%) want more government spending, but 61% say Congress should authorize less spending that there was the year before.
The majority of voters for years have said that cutting taxes and reducing government spending are best for the economy.

Seems Amerians are waking up to the spending boom of the last 4 years of lib control and want it not only to stop but to be cut, get out the chain saw and lets get to cutting

[Entropy]

Good thing, as the $60 billion cut was an absolute joke.

FTR: We can't lay all of this at the feet of the Dems, as the process of spending more than we take in has been going for longer than I've been alive.

[mrvette]

I can cut the budget by 50% and I"m stone serious......

without affecting defense, or SS payments......medi crap is in trouble though....

the list of dead letter agencies would be very L O N G .......

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by mrvette

I can cut the budget by 50% and I"m stone serious......

without affecting defense, or SS payments......medi crap is in trouble though....

the list of dead letter agencies would be very L O N G .......

there is already a country like you envision--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia

[Peter Pan]

Originally Posted by mrvette

I can cut the budget by 50% and I"m stone serious......

without affecting defense, or SS payments......medi crap is in trouble though....

the list of dead letter agencies would be very L O N G .......

With cuts like that we will be in the black and can start paying down debt, time for some tough choices and today is a good day to start the cutting of the bloated budget

[Exotix]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan

Seems Amerians like seafive who can only post Rasmussen neocon agenda polls since they're more twisted than Faux polls are waking up to the spending boom of the last 4 years of lib control and want it not only to stop but to be cut, get out the chain saw and lets get to cutting

fixt ...

[Entropy]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

there is already a country like you envision--Somalia - Wikipedia, the free [email]encyclopedia

If things keep up and we don't pay attention to debt and solvency, we can all have fiddle lessons around the bonfire.

[Peter Pan]

Originally Posted by Exotix

fixt ...

What a joke you are, you want polls from the whitehouse

[ChasC5]

I say let the Republicans do it ...

Let see who Unzip their Fly and pulls out something more that promises.

[Peter Pan]

Originally Posted by ChasC5

I say let the Republicans do it ...

Let see who Unzip their Fly and pulls out something more that promises.

As usual only deflection, but that is what you do best.

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan

As usual only deflection, but that is what you do best.

Actually that's "not" what I do best ... but I digress ...

[thkauffman]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan

As usual only deflection, but that is what you do best.

Of course. None of the fly-speck libs in here can post up anything remotely resembling a salient point.

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

there is already a country like you envision--Somalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your right there, your typical black led Paradise. Of course you could have named just about any black country; Haiti comes to mind as one. Then there is Detroit (it’s only a city though) right in this country.

So you say you want the US to turn into one of those black run shitholes. Your boy Obuma & the CBC is sure doing their best to do that. Come on 2012!

A shutdown might be just the best thing that could happen!

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

Your right there, your typical black led Paradise. Of course you could have named just about any black country; Haiti comes to mind as one. Then there is Detroit (it’s only a city though) right in this country.

So you say you want the US to turn into one of those black run shitholes. Your boy Obuma & the CBC is sure doing their best to do that. Come on 2012!

A shutdown might be just the best thing that could happen!

racist much? my point went right over your head.

[Z06PDQ]

Invest in our future - we're broke!
Pay our public employees their small salaries and good benefits - we're broke!
Invest in education and infrastructure to keep our country competitive - we're broke!
Tax breaks for the super wealthy, income tax breaks, capital gains tax breaks, estate tax breaks - NO PROBLEM!!!

Welcome to the Republican Fleabag mindset!

PS wars are free

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

racist much? my point went right over your head.

O wow I have been called a racist. That worn out overused term went out of fashion years ago. Show me what I said is wrong.


The term is realist and I see the real world as compared to a lot of the crew that tries to dominate on here!

[thkauffman]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

Invest in our future - we're broke!
Pay our public employees their small salaries and good benefits - we're broke!
Invest in education and infrastructure to keep our country competitive - we're broke!
Tax breaks for the super wealthy, income tax breaks, capital gains tax breaks, estate tax breaks - NO PROBLEM!!!

Welcome to the Republican Fleabag mindset!

PS wars are free

You get all your information from Daily Kos, don't you?

I don't think you can even spell economics.

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by thkauffman

You get all your information from Daily Kos, don't you?

I don't think you can even spell economics.

what does it feel like to lay in bed at night & dream about Rush & Beck?

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

what does it feel like to lay in bed at night & dream about Rush & Beck?

You shoud talk!



Still waiting for you to go beyond the name calling stage and PROVE I WAS WRONG in what I said in post 14&16.

Of course name calling is what you crew does best!

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

O wow I have been called a racist. That worn out overused term went out of fashion years ago. Show me what I said is wrong.


The term is realist and I see the real world as compared to a lot of the crew that tries to dominate on here!

"realist" is realizing countries like Somalia are conservative experiments gone horribly wrong. BTW, no one is trying to "dominate" anything.