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National poll: Americans should limit executive pay at bailed out firms
A new national poll by Quinnipiac University finds 81 percent of Americans say the government should limit executive pay at companies receiving federal help. Forty-seven percent say that the boards of directors and top managers at these companies should be forced to resign, according to the national poll.
Sixteen percent of American voters, meanwhile, said that they did not believe the government should limit executive compensation at companies receiving federal help, and 44 percent did not beieve boards of directors and top managers at these companies should be forced to resign, according to the poll.
Fifty-one percent of Americans polled said President Barack Obama’s new budget is needed to fix the economy, while 45 percent said the budget, which doubles the national debt in 10 years, does not.
The poll, taken from March 24 to March 30, surveyed 2,326 U.S. voters. The margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points.
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By Patty
April 2, 2009 8:33 AM | Link to this
51% say we need the bill to fix the economy? So we have no money, but we should borrow ourselves into so much debt we cannot pay it back? Does this 51% realize that Obama’s budget increases government and shrinks private business? Without private business we cannot make money and we will never pay our debt, thereby we will lose our country. Since we are all hurting, our incomes have shrunk, I guess we should do like the government and take out a big loan that we know we cannot pay back and remodel our houses.