Public still opposes auto bailout, poll finds
MSNBC Thursday 23rd February, 2012
By Paul A. Eisenstein, The Detroit Bureau While the U.S. auto industry may be "back," as President Barack Obama recently declared during his State-of-the-Union address, that hasn’t changed the fact that a majority of Americans remain opposed to the 2008 – 2009 bailout of Detroit.A new Gallup poll finds 51 percent of those surveyed still...
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