Imagine that. Americans think their government doesn’t work.
It seems that recent polling has determined that Americans are disappointed that government can’t do the myriad things that they promised they could do, but had no intention of ever accomplishing. From ABC News;
Only 26 percent of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they’re optimistic about “our system of government and how well it works,” down 7 points since October to the fewest in surveys dating to 1974. Almost as many, 23 percent, are pessimistic, the closest these measures ever have come. The rest, a record high, are “uncertain” about the system.
The causes are many. Despite a significant advance, more than half still say the economy has not yet begun to recover. And there’s trouble at the pump: Seventy-one percent in this poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, report financial hardship as a result of rising gas prices. Forty-four percent call it a “serious” hardship.
No, it’s not because the system of our government doesn’t work…the things that we’ve come to expect from government are unreasonable. Instead of being the body that protects us from outsiders, manages trade between the States and insures that we’re treated with a measure of justice, it has become the pompous and arrogant body that manages our entire lives right down to the dimensions of our theater seats. Poorly.
Why do people laugh when someone describes their half-ass craftsmanship “Good enough for government work” and then expect their mail on time?
And of course, you know what the left is saying about this poll.
It would seem that now would be a good time for the progressive community to start thinking about previously seemingly impossible big structural changes they want.
Yeah, we need “big structural changes” meaning more government, higher expectations from government and more bumbling bureaucrats. The answer couldn’t be lowering expectations and tailoring the government to those expectations could it?
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In literature, the technique of hinting at what comes next is called “foreshadowing.”
Enacting the Cloward-Piven Strategy, using Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” bolstered by polls published by confirmed Progressive news agencies. Efforts to impose popular votes to replace the Electoral College so 5 or 6 cities dominate all of America.
Yeah. Looks like folks want to do a major re-write of our Constitution.
Guess who’s going to take it in the shorts?
Another reason why nobody thinks it works anymore: They can’t even pass a freaking budget. Stopgap after stopgap just to keep these idiots in their offices a few extra days to come up with mind numbing new laws. So far, the newly elected Republicans that we elected in 2010 are slowly starting to turn out to be the same old Republicans we’ve grown to hate – spineless cowards who never live up to their promises.
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The issue is this process of producing continuing resolutions is that Democrats use it to protect core programs, such as Obamacare.
The process will end once fiscal conservatives (of any party) control both houses of Congress, and the office of the POTUS.
So we’ve got until November of 2012 to correct the issue, and late January of 2013 to endure it.