Mike Konczal posts this chart from Frank Luntz
noting that the percentages refer to the fraction of people who would be concerned about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency IF the allegation were true.
Mike suggests that this means the CFPA is more popular than Luntz’s chart would indicate.
I can’t get over how unconcerned people are. I don’t know if this is an unusual bout of honesty regarding their apathy but it seems only 14% of Americans list “kills jobs” as one of the top 3 things they would be concerned about IF TRUE.
Moreover, 15% say they are not really concerned about the creation of an additional government agency which authorizes bailouts for Wall Street, increases the size and power of the government, creates more red tape, kills jobs, limits choice, strangles small business, is run by a czar, crafted by lobbyist and costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Those are some truly Zen folks.
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Wednesday ~ February 3rd, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Mike
What I find most amazing, having waded in the deep end of the white paper pool about consumer choices and cost of capital, is that the Glenn Beck meme of “unelected czar” makes people far more worried. Heh.
Remember life is about tradeoffs – it could be that having a CFPA is worth it even ‘if true’ these made up BS push-poll scenarios. Evidence that people are really, really dissatisfied with the current consumer lending market….
Wednesday ~ February 3rd, 2010 at 11:21 pm
teageegeepea
I wouldn’t consider Luntz a very reliable source of data.
I’m reminded a bit of Converse’s claim that most public opinion data reflects “non-opinions”, things people say because they have to say something to pollsters.
Thursday ~ February 4th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Apex
The reason some of those things are low is that the survey question limited people to choosing their top 3. If they let them check as many as possible it could be the case that everyone of them would have gotten 80%.
So all it says is which ones they dislike more. They might dislike all of them a great amount but they couldn’t express that due to how the question was structured.