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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 774445" data-attributes="member: 12952">Re: Obamanation here today<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/122527-poll-two-thirds-think-stimulus-was-a-waste" target="_blank">(The Hill)</a>- Over two-thirds of Americans believe that President Obama’s signature stimulus bill was a waste, a new poll found Tuesday. &nbsp;Sixty-eight percent of Americans said they think the $787 billion&nbsp; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a “waste,” compared to&nbsp; just 29 percent who think the money was well-spent, according to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/page?id=11799055" target="_blank">an ABC/Washington Post poll released Tuesday morning</a>.&nbsp;The figure suggests that the cornerstone of the Obama&nbsp; administration’s agenda to bolster the economy has fallen flat with&nbsp; voters as elections loom in four weeks. The poll also hints that the&nbsp; White House’s effort to sell the bill to the public has been far from&nbsp; successful.&nbsp;Republicans have hammered Democrats who supported the stimulus over&nbsp; the last 20 months, accusing them of wasting money while not creating&nbsp; jobs, while Democrats claim that hundreds of thousands more jobs would&nbsp; have been lost had the stimulus not been enacted.&nbsp;The legislation has become such a boondoggle for some&nbsp; Democrats that it remains a potent political weapon against some of&nbsp; their candidates.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 774445, member: 12952"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] [URL="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/122527-poll-two-thirds-think-stimulus-was-a-waste"](The Hill)[/URL]- [B]Over two-thirds of Americans believe that President Obama’s signature stimulus bill was a waste, a new poll found Tuesday. [/B] Sixty-eight percent of Americans said they think the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a “waste,” compared to just 29 percent who think the money was well-spent, according to [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/page?id=11799055"]an ABC/Washington Post poll released Tuesday morning[/URL]. The figure suggests that the cornerstone of the Obama administration’s agenda to bolster the economy has fallen flat with voters as elections loom in four weeks. The poll also hints that the White House’s effort to sell the bill to the public has been far from successful. Republicans have hammered Democrats who supported the stimulus over the last 20 months, accusing them of wasting money while not creating jobs, while Democrats claim that hundreds of thousands more jobs would have been lost had the stimulus not been enacted. [B]The legislation has become such a boondoggle for some Democrats that it remains a potent political weapon against some of their candidates[/B]. [/QUOTE]

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