National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted July 15-16, 2009

By Rasmussen Reports

1* Looking back, was it a good idea or a bad idea for the federal government to provide bailout funding for banks and other financial institutions?

26% Good
57% Bad
17% Not sure

2* Who has benefited more from the government bailout of the financial industry - Wall Street or the average U.S. taxpayer?

80% Wall Street
8% The average taxpayer
12% Not sure

3* Goldman Sachs received bailout money last fall and repaid the loans last month. Now Goldman Sachs has reported its biggest quarterly profit ever and announced plans for billions in employee bonuses. Does Goldman Sachs’ record profit make you more supportive of the federal bailout of the financial industry, less supportive or have no impact on your view of the bailout?

16% More supportive
41% Less supportive
38% No impact
5% Not sure

4* The federal government still owns Goldman Sachs stock it received as part of the bailout plan. The company wants to buy it back. Should the government sell its stock back to Goldman Sachs or should it give the stock to American taxpayers?

35% Government should sell its stock back to Goldman Sachs
51% The government should give the stock to the American people
14% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence