Voters growing more
angry with government
A Rasmussen Reports opinion survey found something most of us already suspected - voters are not very happy with the federal government, and are getting angrier.
The poll showed three in four likely voters - 75 percent - are at least somewhat angry with government policies; that’s an increase of four points since late November, the polling company found. Forty-five percent say they are very angry, up nine points from September.
The percentage of respondents who said they were not very, or not at all, angry has fallen to 19 percent. That is an 11 percent drop.
Across the nation, as in Alaska, politicians are pushing their own agendas - not their constituents’. They say tomato, we say economy. They say potato, we say economy. They say health care, we say economy. In Alaska, we say jobs, they say ACES. They do not get it; they simply refuse to get it.
In virtually every such poll, respondents say they are frustrated because government does not respond to their concerns about where the next paycheck is coming from, or their jobs, or their ability to keep their homes and raise their families. Instead, politicians yammer on about whatever it is they think the country needs, not what voters are demanding.
Americans usually are pretty plain. They generally do not want to be socialist. They do not want government rooting around in every corner of their lives. They do not want to answer to government, and they are sick and tired of government not answering to them. They want representatives, not leaders, a distinction too many in public office today fail to understand.
At some point, they will say: “Enough!” That day is coming.There likely will be a sea change in this year’s election. That is what it usually takes to get politicians to pay attention because there is only one thing they truly care about and that is getting re-elected. They will pay more than a little attention when a passel of them are shown the door. The furor caused by the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts is a case in point.
The fall is a long way off, but we can hardly wait.
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As shown in the Great Depression, stabilizing the financial system is a must but giving away money is charity and does little to build the ecconomy. Economic growth and jobs comes from the growth of business. Taking tax money from business and spending it in a vain attempt to build back the ecconomy through government spending in the long term is doomed to fail. Spend a little to prop up the unfortunate, but the opposite is needed to build the ecconomy. Incentives and tax relieve is needed for Business to stimulate investment. Does it mater if the 5% of the most wealth make a little more as long as the 95% do better? Most of the politicians that spout to the people that the Government will take care of them, eventually fail.