The Biggest Winners in Obama’s Stimulus

Americans say large banks and financial institutions have gained the most

By U.S. News Staff

July 27, 2010 RSS Feed Print

According to the Pew Research Center, 53 percent of Americans believe large banks and financial institutions have gained "a great deal" from the government's recession-era economic policies, but only 2 percent of Americans feel the same way about small businesses. Large corporations are also viewed as having significantly benefited from the stimulus. Click around below to take a closer look at the data.

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Clearly, the biggest winners were the unions - - Obama's payoff to the AFL-CIO for the GM deal and SEIU and teachers' unions for saving the jobs and growing the Federal government. The banks have mostly paid back their bailout monies (except AIG, good luck on that one) and GM whose TV ad ststed that they paid their debt - - if they think paying $6 billion with another $40 to go has paid their debt, they're crazy. Absolutely nothing for small business, NOTHING!!

Jimbo of CA 4:37PM July 27, 2010

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