So much for the hoopla and highly publicized activities of this week’s G-20 economic summit.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans say the U.S. economy will be helped more by the decisions of U.S. business leaders to grow their own businesses than by the actions of world leaders on behalf of the global economy.
Thirty percent (30%) say decisions made by world leaders to help the global economy will benefit the U.S. economy more.
Republicans and adults not affiliated with either major political party have more confidence in the private sector than do Democrats. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republicans and 57% of unaffiliateds say the decisions of U.S. business leaders will benefit the American economy more.
Democrats are closely divided.
“Adam Smith would be proud. While all the media attention is focused on the G-20, the American people are looking in a different direction for solutions to the global economic slowdown,”
Scott Rasmussen, founder and publisher of Rasmussen Reports, explains.
“By a nearly two-to-one margin, voters say decisions U.S. business owners make will do more for the economy than pronouncements by the world leaders gathered in London.”
Americans, in fact, are closely divided over whether the Group of 20 summit of world leaders will produce anything of note. Forty-one percent (41%) say the participants are at least somewhat likely to agree on a significant plan to help the world’s economy, but just eight percent (8%) say that is Very Likely.
But forty-one percent (41%) believe the G-20 meeting in London is not very likely to produce a significant global economic plan, and an additional eight percent (8%) say it’s not at all likely.
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