Matt Yglesias: Public Wants More Stimulus talking about the results of a recent gallup poll. Nuts and bolts of the poll: Those surveyed want the gov to spend money to make jobs, tinker with the energy industry to save us from global warming, regulate the shit out of the banking industry and kill Obama care.

The quote:

Obviously just because the public supports something (health care repeal, for one) doesn’t mean congress shouldn’t do it. But many members of congress—and, indeed, the White House—seem to me to be being timid in their stimulus-related political strategy out of concern that doing the right thing puts them on the wrong side of public opinion. But it doesn’t. People should write laws that involve spending government funds on hiring people to do stuff.

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