Last week’s CI CyberNews CyberPoll focused on the Cash for Clunkers program and the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit. Of the two programs, Cash for Clunkers was more popular among respondents and the people they know: 50% know someone who participated in the program, while 5% personally took part. Only 10% of respondents know someone who took advantage of the tax credit, and 5% took part themselves.

Comments included:

“More federal dollars pissed away in the river that is now running into the trillions.”

“The clunker program was bad economics, but its difficulties did show why we shouldn't have government-controlled health care.”

“We are just prolonging the agony. We’ve got to pay the bill someday. We’ve borrowed too much so now we're borrowing more to make up for it. We haven't seen the ‘great depression’ yet.”


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