More WSJ poll: Huge majorities reject significant cuts to entitlements

“I can produce poll results on individual questions of 0 to 100 percent depending solely on wording.”

How do you suppose the question was phrased? “Do you support cutting entitlement programs and slowly starving babies just foto watch them die, or would you prefer to rainbows, puppy dogs, unicorns, and keeping things as they are?”

Granted, there must be some way to frame the issue so as to forestall accusations of ending the American Dream as we know it and throwing the “less fortunate” out in the street. However, the fact remains that people are uniquely stubborn on this issue. It’s called the Third Rail for a reason. Cuts For Thee But Not For Me is as powerful as any political truth, much more enduring than Throw the Bastards Out or Not In My Backyard.

The immediate problem is that there’s even more support for tax hikes than there is for entitlement reform: 81 percent find a surtax on millionaires mostly acceptable and 68 percent say the same of phasing out the Bush tax cuts for “wealthy” families.

And therein lie the seeds of our destruction. The Left has prepared a virtual Blitzkrieg of charts, graphs, statistics, films, video, music, speeches....all purporting to show that our wealthy and our corporations are grievously undertaxed, and that nobody need lose a dime in benefits if only we'd go after them. And you are about to start getting assaulted with it 24/7.

The Idiocy Of The American Public
The Market Ticker ® - Commentary on The Capital Markets
Posted 2011-03-03 08:54
by Karl Denninger
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=181429

“…Even tea party supporters, by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, declared significant cuts to Social Security “unacceptable.”…”

FromLori -Thanks so for the link to this fantastic article but where is the above shown in the poll???

“FromLori -Thanks so for the link to this fantastic article but where is the above shown in the poll???”

It’s in his story this link

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704728004576176741120691736.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories#articleTabs%3Darticle

“Too many people don’t want to give up their “goodies”. They want “goodies” (i.e. money earned by hard work) taken away from others so they can keep getting theirs because, by golly, they deserve it.”

Yea, if half the people on this site feel entitled to STEAL the earnings of my kids and (future) grand kids because they (collectively) REFUSED to tax themselves enough to pay for all the services that they DEMANDED from government, we are indeed doomed.

Because of their DEMANDS for this money, we are going to have a FULL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE (due to debt) and these guys will be in much worse shape than if they had been reasonable.

Specifically, they will still see their precious Social Security get WIPED OUT - this time by inflation, and they will also see their savings get wiped out the same way. Food and energy costs will go through the roof (since the dollar will be practically worthless in the world), and people really will starve here.

...but I guess that outcome is just fine to these people, as long as they can keep getting their precious Social Security checks (for a few more months).

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