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Poll: 79% fear U.S. economy could collapse
Hot Air ^ | MARCH 22, 2010 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 03/23/2010 6:46:09 PM PDT by RobinMasters

Imagine how grim the numbers would be if ObamaCare hadn’t solved the problem of rising health-care costs.

The latest Fox News poll finds that 79 percent of voters think it’s possible the economy could collapse, including large majorities of Democrats (72 percent), Republicans (84 percent) and independents (80 percent).

Just 18 percent think the economy is “so big and strong it could never collapse.”

Moreover, 78 percent of voters believe the federal government is “larger and more costly” than it has ever been before, and by nearly three-to-one more voters think the national debt (65 percent) is a greater potential threat to the country’s future than terrorism (23 percent)…

Three in 10 American voters (30 percent) say they are comfortable with the size and role of the federal government right now, while 65 percent say the government has become too big and “is restricting American freedoms.”

Sizable majorities of Republicans (84 percent) and independents (74 percent) think the government is too big, while just over half of Democrats (51 percent) are okay with the size of government.

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1 posted on 03/23/2010 6:46:09 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; Altera; ...

Ping


2 posted on 03/23/2010 6:46:28 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

Their fear is understandable.


3 posted on 03/23/2010 6:47:24 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: RobinMasters

79% can read writing on a wall.


4 posted on 03/23/2010 6:47:26 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: RobinMasters

Could? COULD?
It IS collapsing even as we see it.
One only need look around.
See any new homes being built?


5 posted on 03/23/2010 6:53:24 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: RobinMasters

79% of Americans are at least somewhat aware of Obama and the democrat party’s plan for America.


6 posted on 03/23/2010 6:54:01 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: RobinMasters

The good news to all of this is that Obama owns it...

Obama now owns health care because he “fixed it”...

Obama owns the economy because he saved us from the worst recession since the great depression...

Obama now owns the debt because he tripled the deficit...

Obama owns the unemployment rate, because he said that the worst is over...

So when everything collapses now... he owns it.

I predicted before the election, and before the collapse of Lehman Brothers that our economy would collapse no matter who we elected. I was worried that we would borrow ourselves into bankruptcy, but survive through a growth of Socialism, and thus, our country would want more of the same. I could be wrong, but now I don’t think we will make it through 2012 before the collapse. IF (BIG IF) we collapse before 2012, Obama owns it. Even if a Republican controlled Congress gets elected, he can veto ANYTHING that is put before him to leave everything in place that he has done. Obama owns it.


7 posted on 03/23/2010 6:54:18 PM PDT by CJacobs (From the Ozark / Clarksville area)
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To: RobinMasters

After running up all this debt Obama is going to give us a lecture about how he is the first president to tackle the national debt, which he will say he inherited in spite of his deficit reduction HR bill. This guy has nerve. His solution? Cap and trade and a VAT tax on businesses for selling you anything.


8 posted on 03/23/2010 6:54:52 PM PDT by sickoflibs (( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid"))
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To: RobinMasters

Prepared => Republicans (84 percent)

unPrepared => Democrats (72 percent)

unPrepared => independents (80 percent)

voters think it’s possible the economy could collapse

^
Too bad


9 posted on 03/23/2010 6:58:33 PM PDT by Son House ("Warning! Warning!" "That does not compute" "Danger, Will Robinson!""Oh, the pain...the pain!")
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To: RobinMasters
Imagine how grim the numbers would be if ObamaCare hadn’t solved the problem of rising health-care costs.

Is this sarcasm? Health Insurance rates will skyrocket.

10 posted on 03/23/2010 7:07:55 PM PDT by Need4Truth (We can't afford the empire or the entitlements.)
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To: RobinMasters
If economic and institutional collapse is what elected officials and the people who elected them want, I guess that's what they'll get.

I just don't want to be dragged down the sewer by these sewer rats, but I fear it is too late.

11 posted on 03/23/2010 7:11:47 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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I can’t wait to see what happens when the welfare recipients don’t get their checks. It will be full on anarchy.


12 posted on 03/23/2010 7:14:38 PM PDT by joesjane (The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: RobinMasters

79% of Americans have at least SOME common sense about them then...


13 posted on 03/23/2010 7:33:33 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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The house of cards...
It will all fall down soon enough.


14 posted on 03/23/2010 7:36:04 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Greetings, and how are you today, comrade?)
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To: RobinMasters

21% think the moon is made of green cheese.


15 posted on 03/23/2010 7:37:01 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: RobinMasters

Kill the Federal government save the economy!


16 posted on 03/23/2010 7:44:26 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: joesjane

When anarchy begins Obama will call out the troops and suspend the Constitution.


17 posted on 03/23/2010 7:47:00 PM PDT by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: joesjane

And when the mob shows up outside their door and as they are dragged out on to street, I wonder if finally then, the elitist Libtards will finally realize what fools they have been.


18 posted on 03/23/2010 7:48:10 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Soul of the South

“When anarchy begins Obama will call out the troops and suspend the Constitution.”

It’s probably all in the plan.
No more elections.
I’ve been saying it ever since the bastard got elected.


19 posted on 03/23/2010 7:51:31 PM PDT by Senormechanico
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To: RobinMasters

Can someone in Real Estate and/or Banking tell us how many foreclosures are being held back from advancing due to the governments pressure.


20 posted on 03/23/2010 7:54:05 PM PDT by uptoolate ("Unemployed? Depressed? Angry? Don't Beat Your Wife... Beat A Democrat..." VOTE)
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