Posted on 07/10/2011 9:59:32 PM PDT by george76
Voters remain strongly supportive of a free market economy over one controlled by the government and still think small businesses are hurt more than big businesses when the government does get involved.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of Likely U.S. Voters believe a free market economy is better than an economy managed by the government. Just 14% think a government-managed economy is better. Another 14% are not sure.
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...now if the voters could figure out which party is more favorable to a free market we’ll be making even more progress.
Here’s hoping they’ll hold on to that attitude through the 2012 elections.
I suspect that many of those 72% are lying while depending on federal funding to local government for their incomes. The politicians that they control tend to lie, too.
Negotiations on Deficit Resume at White House (Boehner offered to let Bush tax cuts expire)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2746647/posts
Gallup: Today’s Democrats Twice as Likely as Depression-Era Americans to Favor Redistributing Wealth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2705498/posts
anyone remember the Newsweak cover “we are all socialists now”?
Everyone is hurting due to the Obama Recession.
How can we get rid of 28% of our population?
If the 72% voted with their professed belief, then next year Obama should be going down with 28% of the vote.
I'll bet half of them thought it meant you used your Food Stamp Debit Card to get free stuff at the Market.
A nice thought, but in reality, if the 72% were intelligent enough to know that Social Security, Medicare, Foodstamps, and EVERY OTHER social welfare progaram (ponzi scheme lala land retirement fantasies included) are all part of the “Government managed” and not free market economies, the number who support it would drastically drop.
There are very, very few true conservatives in this world, because of the public education system run amok. If people were taught from youth to be self reliant, and that NO government program is entitled to them, and that all of them cost something, and that most are run better by the private sector (national defense being one of the possible exceptions), then we’d be talking.
Ask the same 72% of people who (haha) reportedly believe in the free market if they are willing to give up the social programs they think they’re entitled to, or paid for (news flash, there’s no money, so they paid for the broken system by politicians they allowed to rule them, not for a future unfunded dream) and they’ll sing a very different sugar daddy, big brother song. There’s a lot that needs fixing, and it ALL boils down to bad parenting and public education. There’d never be a chance for the communists to grow if parent’s hadn’t let traitors brainwash their children for decades.
Bingo! Free market means NO government intervention. A partially free market would still be acceptable economically (though some of us may differ in our opinions on how “free” freedom should be), but the majority would not give up the false security blanket if it meant a loss of the promised pilfered payoffs.
One would think that Obama’s reelection prospects would be zero in the face of such a number.
Note: I said “professed belief.”
However, I think this does prove that a coordinated educational campaign on the issues could work. While I do not think most of the population is conservative, I think the polls show, continuously, that the voting public has conservative leanings that could come out if it were not for the fact the educational system has been turned into the statist indoctrination system. I do not know how it could be done, since many try, but an effective educational campaign could do a lot of good.
Obama = 20%, the communist vote
Various Greens, Pinkos, Socialists, (other than Obama), Che, Danny, and other write-ins = 8%
That election was easy. Next. . .
Absolutely mandatory if our sacred republic is going to survive. It starts at home with family, then church, then private schools or home schooling. Education is the key. . .
Don’t worry, I got the professed part. : D I totally agree with you, the nice thought I was saying was in regards to voting Obamao out. The rest was not entirely directed at you, but kind of a general statement, I agree with you fully.
“I do not know how it could be done, since many try, but an effective educational campaign could do a lot of good.”
There’s the rub, but you bring up a sound principle. The Savior Himself said, “The Truth shall set you free.”
Not only is your example metaphorically sound, it literally is too. IIRC 50 Million people receive food stamps, and I know of many who buy very expensive items on them. When I was younger I would have thought that it sounds great to get free money (Though other than a partial scholarship, the opportunity never was afforded to me, haha), but as an adult, I know that there is know free. What one may gain in prosperity they did not acheive themselves, they can be sure they paid for in the shackles of servitude.
The government gives nothing to one that was not taken from another. When the geese with golden eggs run out, they merely stop giving to the masses, and only give to themselves.
Agreed. When families quit being families (a communist goal BTW), the republic began to fail. Ask Ed Griffin/Yuri Bezmenov (The KGB defector who warned us in the 1980’s), that’s what the primary role of the KGB was for, to topple our government (and others), by indoctrinating the children.
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