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Respondents were split on the overalpl directionof things, with 48 percent sayingg the United States is moving in the righ t direction and 45 percent saying the country is on the wronv track, according to the survey. In addition, 53 percent of respondente think the worst has yet to come for the national and 58 percent say the country is in a worse position now than it waslast year. Meanwhile, almos t two-thirds said the Texasx economy was healthier than the national Other findings included that two thirdsx of respondents did not have confidence in thestocj market, and nearly half were concerned that theif retirement funds might not be A majority of respondents — 58 percenty — support Gov.
Rick Perry’s rejection of $556 million in federall stimulus dollars forthe unemployed, claiming that therw were too many strings attached, though 34 percentt of respondents thought Perry should have accepted the funds. According to 58 percenty of respondents, the stimulus is helping to make the economicd downturnless severe, and 44 percent of respondentsw said they would be willing to wait two years or more to see if the new administration’w policies were working. The telephone poll surveyer roughly 1,000 Texans between June 5 and June 12.