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It's obvious, really. Big Government is wasteful, abusive, ineffective and kills freedom. And yet we get more of it every year. Big Government encourages crony capitalism, rewards losers, encourages irresponsibility and penalizes responsible behavior.
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The Obama Administration can insist that it's winning the war on terror and that the Affordable Care Act is working, but Americans don't agree. A new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows the majority of Americans (six in ten) have little to no confidence that the federal government may actually fix problems. The skepticism cuts across party lines.
"Though it may seem somewhat contradictory, the poll answers could help explain the popularity of strongman candidates with populist appeal like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. While it's been common for candidates to try to present themselves as political outsiders no matter how much they've fed at the public trough, nobody has managed to ride that populist wave in recent elections like Trump and Sanders (even though neither of them are actual outsiders, either).
They're not promising to "reform" the system. They're promising to either bypass it entirely (Trump) or break it entirely and rebuild it (Sanders). They're promising to make big government work for their constituency."
It is not partisan...
"people ...seem to understand that the big government that exists is not working in their interests. The challenge is getting them to understand that this is the nature of big government and inherent in federal bureaucracy, and not because of a particularly special political dynamic that is in play just at this moment."
And why not? The constant bad mouthing of government by entrenched wealthy corporate interests is working. Don't like regulations, just destroy the country to get rid of the regulation. Want more power, just convince people that Obama (or whoever is President) is gonna get your guns.
I don't know where or how it is going to end, but it isn't going to be pretty and a lot of people will get hurt in the process. We may not have a United States of America much longer.
Before anyone accuses me of being a liberal and this is sour grapes or anti gun, know that I am registered Republican and a life member of the NRA.
I certainly don't want to see the end of the USA, but I think we would all be better off if we split into five or ten countries with trade and defense agreements. Nobody or group of people can manage an annual spend of $3.7 trillion.
Our system is starting to resemble all the anti communist cartoons I had to watch in history class. That kind of has me concerned. I know we have the freedom to free enterprise, but it seems like the odds are stacked against us. Too much dead weight to be carried.
The state and local govs are cleaner than a virgin's honeypot.
Not to mention the private sector....
Government is just a system devised by man, the problem is man is easily corruptible.
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