[pnh102]

Clearly 52% of people are idiots.

[bamahead]

Amazing and discouraging that it's not higher...



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[Grunthor]

“48% See Government Today As A Threat to Individual Rights”

That low? We still have work to do.

[Safrguns]

Just 48% see government as a threat to individual rights???

100% of our founding fathers saw the same threat.

That’s why they drafted the US Constitution.

[MNJohnnie]

In other news 52% of Americans prove themselves to be idiots.

[OB1kNOb]

Most Democrats (64%) regard the government as a protector of rights.

That's why I call them dem-wits.

[rhombus]

Additionally, most Americans (52%) say it is more important for the government to protect individual rights than to promote economic growth.

Since when are these choices mutually exclusive? I would think economic growth would increase when individual rights are protected.

[MNDude]

and the other 52% are excited about our government’s plans to insert a mind controlling chip in their brains

[stephenjohnbanker]

48%.....THE MSM HAS DONE A GOOD JOB COVERING UP THE TRUTH.

[central_va]

What it will eventually finally come down to - again.

Men of the Valley

[PGalt]

This current government, the tyrannical executive branch and their willing enablers in Congress, need to be replaced. All of them. Ballot box. C’mon November.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I'm in the process of reading the wonderful, newly issued paperback of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. It is well annotated, with excellent editorial background. It might be the best ten bucks I've ever spent.

Hayek wrote the book in 1944, and was very, very prescient. His take on government growth vs. individual freedom is perfect. Clearly (except to liberals,) the greater the former, the less the latter.

[ScottinVA]

Apparently RasmussenReports is being blocked at my workplace firewall. Since no one has rushed to post today’s tracking poll numbers, they must be favorable to Boy Zer0. Am I right?

[FrankR]

In the end, it will come down to a battle between the “moocher class”, and the “producers”.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’d hazard a guess and say that 90% of the slaves of the old Soviet Union and East Germany would have said their governments protected their rights, too. Cut from the same cloth as today’s Democrat.

[EternalVigilance]

America's Founders, of course, addressed this at the very beginning:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

[RU88]

What I find interesting about these numbers revolves around the the fact that the number of people who pay no income taxes closely mirrors those who feel the government is a protector of rights. Combine this with the brainwashing children received at gubmint schools over the course of the last two generations along with the daily bombardment from the MSM and its no small wonder why these numbers are the way they are.

[Soothesayer]

Will the other 52% change their minds when we have concentration camps?

[servantboy777]

Damn, ya think!!

Any sane person should be able to see the control Federal, State, County and municipal governments have on our everyday lives.

Till the day I draw my last puff of air, I will vote to limit government at all levels and do my best to educate folks in that regard.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

52% don’t do anything but drink, fornicate, and watch TV. No one is trying to outlaw those, yet.