callmeslick wrote:go look up the poll on the same topic in 2006. Identical numbers. Almost within 1%.
Yet, when you ask Americans if they wish to continue or discontinue Welfare, Unemployment insurance,
Highway building, Defense, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Food and Drug Administration, NIH, NASA
or Education dept, in not one case can you find a majority that wish to discontinue. Go figure.
commrad slick, same topic?? 2006?? You mean after Bush was seen on levies planting dynamite and caused Katrina?
Very interesting you tossed in Nasa, highway building and education this time with
entitlement programs. Three programs that previously have yielded billions on the return in those tax expenditures.
ok, not one to wait I found searching Reuters Gallop for those numbers all I could find was high percentages of those who said government was broken, and they didn't trust them to do things.....like "fix" Katrina, so links showing Americans feared imminent threats to our rights please
The dow closed above 11k, nasa flew by venus, sends back all kinds of photos of all kinds of things, snagged comet dust too, we were arresting all kinds of terrorists here and abroad, and treating them like...terrorists, we were still friends with the UK,blah blah
I'm weary looking for proof of your statement, so I'll let you
ABC News archives
"Generally speaking, would you say you favor smaller government with fewer services, or larger government with more services?"
date Smaller Larger Unsure
1/12-15/10 58 38 4
6/18-21/09 54 41 4
1/13-16/09 53 43 4
06/2008 50 45 5
11/2007 50 44 5
6/04 50 46 4
7/02 53 42 6
1/02 54 41 5
I can only find links showing Americans would be OK overall, less government and LESS services, so again, link up slick. This ABC poll goes all the way back to 2002!! Same question too- verbatim. According to the ABC archive stuff.
I recall seeing some anti bush polls around the time of the patriot act, so maybe theres your chance to post we the peoples fear of a commie government take over polls- but all of those were about trusting the gov, NOT the fear that our government is taking us down the path of less freedoms, more restriction, more government control we have never experienced except in war time as we walked over dead bodies and thought, "how did this shit get so far in the first place"
