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2011-09-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government
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Posted by DarthVader 2011-09-26 13:08|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Soon the next key question will be - would you be willing to die to save your government? Remember they're your betters, they expect you to.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-26 15:31||   2011-09-26 15:31|| Front Page Top

#2 I would think they'd scare the hell out of every elected and unelected politician, bureaurocrat, tick in the govt.

But I'd be wrong. They simply don't give a sh*t what the little people think anymore. They can do it without us, they have the 'too big to fail' bunch behind them. And at the moment that seems to be enough.
Posted by bigjim-CA 2011-09-26 15:32||   2011-09-26 15:32|| Front Page Top

#3 So, the polity is basically healthy, but the politicians are busted. Cool...
Posted by M. Murcek 2011-09-26 16:36||   2011-09-26 16:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Oops, not the polity, the citizens, duh. And about half the electorate should not vote.
Posted by M. Murcek 2011-09-26 16:38||   2011-09-26 16:38|| Front Page Top

#5 That's because we have the master charge in office.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-09-26 17:15||   2011-09-26 17:15|| Front Page Top

#6 There's one national political figure who seems to be getting it who also happens to be a potential presidential candidate. In their own words:

"Do you want to know why nothing ever really gets done? It’s because there’s nothing in it for them [politicians]. They’ve got a lot of mouths to feed — a lot of corporate lobbyists and a lot of special interests that are counting on them to keep the good times and the money rolling along. This is not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk. It’s the collusion of big government and big business and big finance to the detriment of all the rest — to the little guys. It’s a slap in the face to our small business owners — the true entrepreneurs, the job creators accounting for 70 percent of the jobs in America."
Posted by eltoroverde 2011-09-26 21:29||   2011-09-26 21:29|| Front Page Top

#7 "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
--Grover Norquist
Posted by SteveS 2011-09-26 21:40||   2011-09-26 21:40|| Front Page Top

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