So far, Ask America, which collects opinions through non-traditional polling, has gotten more than 7.5 million responses, and more than 100,000 were on the six questions in the graphic above that relate to the economy.
The respondents' opinions speak loudly: More than 50 percent agree on each question. But the votes don't follow a single philosophy about whether the government should stay in or out of this messy economic downturn.
For example, 74 percent of the votes on the " Factory Future" question are in favor of the government doing more to support the manufacturing sector, but the same percentage say a second stimulus is a bad idea. And more than two-thirds of respondents to "Future Outlook" are not optimistic we'll be back on track in a couple years.
Read more about our Ask America respondents' views on the economy and cast your vote below.
Are you optimistic that the job market will be well on its way to a normal employment rate within two years?
30%
Optimistic
70%
Not optimistic
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4 comments:
Typical. Everyone's against spending more in general, but they are for spending more for this, that and the other. Hypocrites.
It's like voting for the revenue cap, and then voting for collective bargaining for deputies (or showing up to complain that the county does not spend enough on education). Completely inconsistent.
I got a novel idea,nothing.It will fix itself.The govt is the problem.hold the govt and theyre salaries hostage,like they do the peoples
I watched an interview with some colloge students last night. All of the students that were ask who was the questions did not know: who was vice president , who was speaker of the house , who was Robert Gates.
Sad situation we are in , no wonder Obama is going after the young.
To get the gov'ts unemployment number down by 1% requires a YoY GDP of 5%(every quarter), so realistically speaking, that's not going to happen in the next 2 years. I believe in 2012 the gov't number will still be at 8-8.5%.
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