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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (59984)	2/24/2009 12:18:35 PM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224738

Kenneth you were down on everything, every part of the economy and the war effort. Now it is Obama's war and economy and you are trying to clean up your act. You are pretending the post to flopper was the only post you made about the economy! LOL You ran down the economy long before there were signs of a recession. You were on the case as soon as Bush was elected lol Please don't make me prove you are an ass and a liar.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (59984)	2/24/2009 1:07:28 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224738

ken...does it bother you at all that American tax payer dollars are going to support hamas a islamic terrorist bunch of crazies????? Who do you think will get the money? U.S. plans $900 million pledge for Gaza Mon Feb 23, 2009 uk.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million (621 million pounds) to help rebuild Gaza after Israel's invasion and strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Monday. The money will be channelled through U.N. and other bodies and will not be distributed via the militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to make the announcement next week at a Gaza donors conference in Egypt.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (59984)	2/24/2009 1:09:09 PM
From: lorne	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224738

ken...Because you like polls so much I just knew you would enjoy this poll. 55% Say Government Mortgage Help Rewards Bad Behavior Monday, February 23, 2009 rasmussenreports.com Fifty-five percent (55%) of American adults say the federal government would be rewarding bad behavior by providing mortgage subsidies to financially troubled homeowners. Among investors, 65% hold that view. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that, among all adults, just 32% disagree. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans and 60% of those not affiliated with either major political party believe the mortgage help subsidizes bad behavior. Most Democrats (51%) disagree. President Obama last Wednesday announced a $275-billion taxpayer-backed plan that would help as many as nine million Americans avoid foreclosure through measures including subsidized mortgage payments. Critics of the plan, including a widely circulated on-air challenge by CNBC editor Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, say it subsidizes “losers” and “bad behavior” by homeowners who bought houses they knew they could not afford. The Rasmussen Investor Index, which measures daily confidence, fell to a record low today. (Want a free daily e-mail update? Sign up now. If it's in the news, it's in our polls.) Rasmussen Reports updates also available on Twitter. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Americans are not willing to pay higher taxes to help people who cannot afford to make their mortgage payments. Fourteen percent (14%) say higher taxes for this purpose are okay with them. Ten percent (10%) are undecided. Most Americans--53%--also oppose a plan for the federal government to pay off a portion of the mortgages only for people who can’t afford their current payments. Thirty-two percent (32%) think it’s a good idea. Support for that plan is even lower among homeowners. Once again, there is a wide partisan divide. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Republicans and 58% of unaffiliated adults oppose the plan to help at-risk homeowners pay their mortgages. But a plurality of Democrats (49%) favor the plan. There is also little support for a plan that directly subsidizes all homeowners. Just 33% of all adults support having the federal government to pay up to $100,000 of the mortgage balance owned by every single homeowner in America. Fifty-one percent (51%) reject such a plan. Even though they would directly benefit, a majority of homeowners (52%) don’t like that plan. Last week, 45% of Americans opposed the federal government subsidizing mortgage payments for financially troubled homeowners. Most Americans believe the housing market will improve only when the overall U.S. economy gets better. In December, 59% said they expected the value of their home to rise over the next five years, but adults were much less optimistic about the housing market over the next couple years. Please sign up for the Rasmussen Reports daily e-mail update (it’s free)… let us keep you up to date with the latest public opinion news. See survey questions and toplines. Crosstabs are available to Premium Members only. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. The Rasmussen Reports ElectionEdge™ Premium Service for Election 2008 offers the most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a Presidential election. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.