I hope Taxes weren't used to fund this.
Posted on 04/19/2010 4:00:06 AM PDT by Scanian
Only about one in five registered voters believe they can trust the government in Washington to do the right thing "just about always" or most of the time, while an overwhelming majority say it will do the right thing only some of the time or never, according a Pew Research Center poll conducted March 11-21.
The survey found a strikingly negative view of their government among voters that it attributed to "a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government – a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan based backlash, and epic discontent with Congress and elected officials."
Pew's analysis concluded that "rather than an activist government to deal with the nation's top problems, the public now wants government reformed and growing numbers want its power curtailed. With the exception of greater regulation of major financial institutions, there is less of an appetite for government solutions to the nation's problems – including more government control over the economy – than there was when Barack Obama first took office." Get the new PD toolbar!
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I hope Taxes weren't used to fund this.
Some should be allowed to resign and go back to their families. The remainder...
Vote every incumbent out of office except:
Kurt Weldon Congressman PA (R)
Tom Tancredo Congress,an Colorado (R)
Joe Wilson Congressman, SC (R)
Duncan Hunter Cal. Congressman (R)
John Bolton Former US Ambassador to the UN
Michelle Bachmann Senator (R) Minn.
James DeMint Senator (R) SC
Alan Keyes
Steve King Congressman (R-Iowa)
Mike Pence Cong. (R) IN
Trent Franks (R-Ariz.
Douglas Hoffmann (R) NY
Bob McDonnell (R) VA
Peter King (Cong.)
Steve King (R-IA) Congressman
Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich
Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.Rep.
Bobby Jindal
Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota Gov.)
John Shadegg (Cong.) Phoenix
John Thune (R) S.D.
Sen. Mitch McConnel
Elizabeth Dole (R - N.C.
James Imhofe (R - N.D.)
John Ensign (R - N)
Jim Bunning (R.-Ky.)
Saxby Chambliss (R.-Ga.)
John Cornyn (R.-Tex.)
Michael Enzi (R.-Wyo.)
Chuck DeVore
Marco Rubio (FL)
U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick (NC)
Dave Camp (MI)
Mitch McConnell
Sen. John Barrasso (R) WY
Rep. Paul Ryan (Rep) Wisconsin
Lamar Alexander
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C.
Mitch Daniels
Chuck DeVore
Tommy Thompson
Jesse Petrilla
Jack Hoogendyk (Kalamazoo)
Jason Sager Florida)
Haley Barbour
Chris Christie NJ Gov.
SteveVaus (Cal.)
Some of these aren’t up for election. This is my good-guy list.
a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government
And the underlying reason for that, and the government's incompetence, is competition - the government suffers none, it takes our money at gunpoint!
It is competition that keeps each of us honest. Brutal, dog-eat-dog, capitalistic competition. That is why private enterprise can provide any service, any product, any creation, far more efficiently and imaginatively than Communism. Didn't the Soviet Union prove that?
And it operates from the personal level of you and I all the way up to the most top heavy businesses and institutions.
A dynamic society is one where enterprise and competition prevail. And correspondingly the LEFT is the manifestation of Laziness and Stupidity in all those who succumb.
How obvious is it?
God, Pelosi is Stupid!
Then why do they continually vote to send Big Government advocates like Dear Reader to DC?
How did you determine you good guy list?
How old is that list?
In fact, competition can be so brutal that the communists should actually pity the capitalist. Competition forces the capitalist to go to bed each night wondering how he can simultaneously make more people happy and offer a better deal.
Anti-capitalists are fools.
There may be a distrust in government as a whole, but many will elect those who promise stuff. Like Rush said, free candy wins at the end of the day.
All of the House of Repsetn is up for election every 2 years. Go at it.
Americans (and rightly) have always distrusted government. THAT sentiment is what ought to keep politicians honest.
NOW, more than ever Americans distrust government for a further reason. WE see the politicians as NOT being American is the same sense as the guy next door or the guy the slaving away in the cubicle next to me...etc.
The social/educational/economic ‘divide’ that previously distinguished Joe Shmoe voter from the man he sent to Washington has become a yawning abyss beyond which voters NO LONGER have any significance to ‘politicians’, except at election time.
The only thing I can conceive that has corrupted the natural and wholesome distrust Americans have for Politicians is that the MSM has so far and so consistently misrepresented issues, (often candidates as well) that Americans have been shamelessly duped into considering ‘politicians’ who would otherwise have NO credibility.
The ‘Dummy Down’ public education ‘industry’ has preconditioned young people so that they never question or challenge what is presented to them in the MSM.
VOILA…public opinion (i.e. Presidential candidates) bought and paid for by the highest bidder!!
“And the underlying reason for that, and the government’s incompetence, is competition - the government suffers none, it takes our money at gunpoint!
It is competition that keeps each of us honest. Brutal, dog-eat-dog, capitalistic competition. That is why private enterprise can provide any service, any product, any creation, far more efficiently and imaginatively than Communism. Didn’t the Soviet Union prove that?”
Yes it did.
And Free Enterprise generates the wealth of a nation, sets prices, rewards performance. And free enterprisers are always more generous in charity.
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