SBANE poll: 75% favor pension reform

PROVIDENCE – The attendees of the Smaller Business Association of New England’s monthly breakfast meeting showed overwhelming support for the pension reform proposal that the R.I. General Assembly is considering.

Seventy-five percent of the 40 attendees of Wednesday’s meeting said they were in support of the proposal; 22 percent were unsure and 3 percent opposed it.

That’s a bigger percentage in agreement than any of the other questions, including: Which football team will win this Sunday? Seventy percent said the Patriots; 21 percent said “Who cares?” and 9 percent said the Jets.

The association also asked how the attendees thought the Rhode Island economy was doing – 53 percent said “decreasing slowly.” When asked about their feelings on the “overall direction” of the United States, 43 percent said “somewhat wrong direction” and 33 percent said “somewhat right direction.”

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Political questions on the poll included: Who do you think should be the Republican nominee for president? Thirty-nine percent voted for Mitt Romney; 17 percent voted for Newt Gingrich and “Unsure.”

As for the Occupy Movement, the largest percentage of respondents – 39 percent – had “somewhat negative” feelings about it.

Fifty-one percent of attendees had positive feelings about the Tea Party, while 30 percent expressed negative feelings.

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