In a Rasmussen Reports poll about the stimulus released yesterday, 43 percent of respondents said they believed the Democrats $862 billion stimulus hurt the economy. Just 29 percent thinks it helped.Not surprisingly, an overwhelming majority of Americans, 69 percent, believe tax cuts, not another "stimulus," is a surer way to jump start the moribund economy.
Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN) is running for the Senate. In a John Kerry-esque maneuver, he voted against the stimulus before he voted for it. A ride on Air Force One with President Obama to northern Indiana swayed him. After his vote, the second one, he bragged that the stimulus would create 75,000 Hoosier jobs, 3.5 million overall. But the unemployment rate went up in Indiana, as it did in most states, not down.
"I think any economist will tell you, if you spend money, it will create jobs," Ellsworth told the Evansville Courier & Press last year.
You were wrong, Ellsworth.
Just as Illinoisans can't afford Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias, Hoosiers can't afford Brad Ellsworth.
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