Score one for CNN. In a just released poll, CNN reports that 56% of Americans see the government’s size and power as an immediate threat to their personal rights and freedoms.
CNN Poll
Americans have good reason to be fearful of “their” monstrous government:
- Over 2 million federal employees excluding military and the USPS (with a significant increase under Obama)
- $3.5 trillion dollars of spending (excluding TARP) – one fourth of GDP
- Government takeovers of corporate behemoths AIG, GM, and Citigroup
- Official nationalization of Fannie and Freddie, their hundreds of billions of mortgages, and the overwhelming majority of the mortgage finance industry
- Full nationalization of the student loan market
- Continued leftist moves to control fully 100% of Americans’ health care
- Obama and Democrat maneuvering to cap and tax every aspect of everyday life through the politicized deceit of global warming
- Hundreds of billions of repaid TARP funds now being utilized as a personal slush fund by Obama
- Talk of a Federal national sales tax – a VAT in the United States of America
- And of course, there’s the $12.6 TRILLION national debt which is 87% of GDP (and which Obama is growing by $1 TRILLION a year)
- No plan or even current talk of attempting to remedy the doomed socialist entitlement programs – Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
Relative Growth of Federal Government
Even 37% of government-loving Democrats are scared. Obama’s response: Americans want $1 TRILLION of more government.
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!