Yet another poll shows that he's losing the trust and confidence of the American people -- especially on the economy.
And this poll also finds that people are more trusting of the Republicans on the budget than they are of Obama.
It's from USA Today/Gallup and here's an excerpt:
Americans say Republicans in Congress would do a better job than Democrats in dealing with the U.S. budget, according to a poll released Friday that shows President Barack Obama's party at a disadvantage as lawmakers near another showdown over federal spending.Click here to read more.
The poll's findings underscore the challenge facing Obama as he seeks public support for his proposals for tackling a growing U.S. budget deficit — an issue that could play a key role in the president's efforts to win re-election in 2012. . . . .
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They favor the GOP on the top level but not when the details of the GOP's proposals are revealed. Paul Ryan's proposed "reforms" to Medicare are at best controversial, at worst unpopular.
http://swampland.time.com/2011/04/29/what-polling-on-medicare-and-paul-ryans-plan-really-tells-us/
Also, while Ryan's proposal sounds good in theory, it won't work in practice. Private insurers don't want to insure medicare-age people because they're higher risk. So either they won't be willing to cover those people (making the vouchers worthless), or they'll offer them policies at such high premiums that they'll be impossible for all but the wealthiest seniors to afford. That means government will have to spend more on the vouchers than they do currently per subscriber for Medicare, or a whole lot of seniors are going to be unable to afford health care.
I agree that changes need to be made with Medicare. But getting rid of the system and issuing vouchers instead is not the way to go.
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