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Gallup on the Auto Bailout: Half of Americans are Un-American
Politics Daily —
... you oppose the bailout, you are, "frankly" un-American. Wait, I thought questioning people's patriotism was wrong. Or, alternate headline, McCarthy lives! "It is unacceptable for this un-American, frankly, behavior of these U.S. senators to cause this country to go from a recession into a depression," Granholm said during a radio interview Friday morning. But I thought dissent was the highest form of patriotism? Anyway, that brings us to a recent Gallup poll, tip to : Executives of the U.S. auto industry take the brunt of ...
ABC/WaPo poll: Majority of Americans oppose Big 3 bailout
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... popular in the South and West, where 59% of Americans oppose the bailout. I guess everyone everywhere hates America. Who knew that the only people with a patriotic bone in their body were those who spend money we don’t have by giving it to companies with a long track record of losing it just to retain the favor of labor management that don’t listen to their own rank-and-file? Now, that’s news. Too bad the Washington Post chose to bury it in the coupon section. Update : Hey, Gallup finds half of Americans are unpatriotic, too! According to the same survey, Americans are ...
Progressive Breakfast: Econ Recovery Number Dropping?
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... that would be a major shock to the system. It might be different under different economic circumstances. It's also important to remember that in most cases what we're talking about are loans. There's the expectation that eventually the taxpayers will be paid back; that these entities, including the banks, as well as the automobile industry, will be responsible for repaying the funds that are being advanced at this point."
National Review's Kathryn Lopez tries to take Gallup poll data to deem the US auto industry problems a "Union Issue."
But that's a ...
Union-Commissioned Poll: Vast Support for Labor Bill
News —
... from Dec. 4 to 10, a week that was critical to unions' national image: that week saw heated debate over a United Auto Workers (UAW)-supported bailout for Detroit, which the House approved. Labor and business alike took a public-opinion hit shortly after today's poll was conducted, as the bailout deal fell through when UAW negotiators resisted escalating demands from the Senate GOP. (Unions took more blame for the deal's collapse than did Senate Republicans, according to a Gallup survey released the next week, though the same poll showed more Americans blaming the Big Three's ...
Happy Labor Day, Organized Labor! Enjoy it while it lasts…
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Note that this sharp drop in union approval is occuring shortly after the implosion of the American auto industry. Gallup noted in a poll earlier this year that 43% of Americans placed “a great deal of blame” on auto unions as a cause of the problems with the Big 3. Another intriguing statistic is that union membership was ...
