Posted on 04/25/2017 7:35:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many, maybe most of Americans’ have been brainwashed. If big government is what they prefer then they want America to fail, go bust and become like Cuba, or Russia, or China or North Korea, or any other evil government.
May the Lord have mercy on their tortured souls.
RE: The National Debt is now $20 trillion.
Yep, and the unfunded liabilities are 5 times that. I wonder if Pew actually started their survey with this statement:
“Given that our national debt is $20 trillion and our unfunded liabilities are 5 times that, do you favor...”
It’s because of who is now in charge of the government...
I think what you get is a splintering effect, where a lot of people who oppose more spending in general nonetheless support more spending on “MY favorite program”.
I saw this two decades ago when I was working with farmers. They put on a great show about being the most rock-ribbed, down-to-earth conservative patriotic Americans. But bring up the subject of cutting their favorite ag subsidy, and katy-bar-the-door, they were ready to go to WAR with you.
Thus Veterans oppose more spending, EXCEPT on veterans programs. The bulge of aging baby boomers lines-up behind Social Security and Medicare spending, etc.
I believe it. Ironically, universal suffrage is suicide for sustainable “self governance,” and is a recipe that favors the worst of human nature. Once half the people figure out they can vote largesse for themselves from the public treasury ... goes the old saw.
Ha ha—I grew up on a farm that was so the case!
Absolute free marketers until it came to their subsidy, which somehow was required given the quick expiration of their product (milk).
Good metric for setting deportation/ immigration limits. No immigration and max deportation until this trend is reversed!!
Anything from NBC is trash. You notice there is no information of where and who was polled.
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Did they follow up the question with “are you willing to pay for this “free” stuff?”
"Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that guy behind the tree."
That is what happens when Pew poll are taken down to the local welfare agency
Land of the Sheep - home of the slave.
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