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Dems Doubting Big Government
PhilanthropyDaily.com ^ | 9/13/2011 | Scott Walter

Posted on 09/14/2011 3:41:54 PM PDT by Edmunds mom

Voters, warns Democrat pollster Stanley Greenberg, “feel ever more estranged from government.” ...

Greenberg essentially boils down Americans’ complaints with government to two: (1) “Government works for the irresponsible, not the responsible.” (2) a new class, in and out of government, uses government to enrich themselves. On the first point, Greenberg’s voters tell him they disapprove of bailouts large and small, whether the beneficiary is a Wall Street firm whose speculations have gone south, a homeowner who bought too much house for his income, or an immigrant who entered the country illegally.

On the second point, Greenberg quotes a voter saying, “There’s just such a control of government by the wealthy that whatever happens, it’s not working for all the people; it’s working for a few of the people.” Another voter declares, “We don’t have representative government anymore.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bailouts; biggovernment; palin
Two leftie New York Times writers have discovered to their horror that a lot of Americans don't like big government, big bailouts, and all the hangers-on who feed on them. One of them even swallows his pride and admits that Sarah Palin is beginning to make sense to him.
1 posted on 09/14/2011 3:41:57 PM PDT by Edmunds mom
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To: Edmunds mom

As long as the Democrats support the bums at the bottom and the Republicans support the bums at the top all will go along as usual ... until we fall into the economic abyss.


2 posted on 09/14/2011 3:55:55 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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(1) “Government works for the irresponsible, not the responsible.” (2) a new class, in and out of government, uses government to enrich themselves.

Isn't this EXACTLY what Sarah spoke about in her Indianola speech?

3 posted on 09/14/2011 4:00:03 PM PDT by sklar
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To: sklar

Hey, don’t let facts get in the way! LOL!


4 posted on 09/14/2011 4:06:26 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Edmunds mom

Sarah will make sense to a lot of people.


5 posted on 09/14/2011 4:14:37 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi (Moutaineers are Always Free)
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To: Edmunds mom
. . . feel ever more estranged from government.

The "estrangement" comes from the taxpayer funds taps running dry.

6 posted on 09/14/2011 4:20:29 PM PDT by Misterioso (The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny. (Ludwig von Mises)
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To: Edmunds mom

Goodbye, permanent political class.


7 posted on 09/14/2011 4:30:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Governor Palin: "I'm not for sale." It's true. Watch The Undefeated.)
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To: Edmunds mom

= TEA PARTY!!! Have they not been listening?


8 posted on 09/14/2011 4:45:44 PM PDT by LALALAW (one of the asses whose sick of our "ruling" classes)
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To: Misterioso
Obama, Lenin and Marx
Obama, Lenin and Marx

9 posted on 09/14/2011 5:25:52 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Edmunds mom

Now what are all the “smart” people going to do????? So many chiefs and so few indians.


10 posted on 09/14/2011 5:55:07 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Edmunds mom

sfl


11 posted on 09/14/2011 7:54:54 PM PDT by phockthis
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To: Edmunds mom

Someone with an account needs to go over to the DUmp and declare Øbama is a Karl Rove plant designed by Cheney to destroy the Rat Party.

I love the smell of exploding Rats in the morning - it smells like..... :-))


12 posted on 09/14/2011 8:02:47 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: LALALAW

But, but, the Tea Party members are barbarian terrorists, don’tcha know?


13 posted on 09/15/2011 6:10:35 AM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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