CNN Poll - Majority says govt a threat to citizens' rights

[ericire12]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/26/cnn-poll-majority-says-government-a-threat-to-citizens-rights/?fbid=Cr5rE4Uqg_C

Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.

Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.

The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.

According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken - though the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall survey.

[crusader rabbit]

The Surprise'o'Meter registers a big fat ZERO on this one.

If you don't feel threatened by government, you just aren't paying attention.

[ericire12]

The Surprise'o'Meter registers a big fat ZERO on this one.

If you don't feel threatened by government, you just aren't paying attention.

Anti-Government Bible clinging Right wing extremist

[tombogan03884]

The results are no surprise, 
CNN reporting them is.

[ericire12]

The results are no surprise, 
CNN reporting them is.

You notice how they chaulk it all up to a "partisan divide"?

They are trying to throw their own survey under the bus..... They dont like what they found, and they are ignoring the obvious underlying conclusion here: Dear Leader is a total and complete failure at the whole "unifying America" thing. This should be a major front and center news story and it should be driving them to be asking the administration tough questions..... but alas its the MSM and it does not fit the agenda, so they are essential throwing it to the waste side and burying it in their blog. If they cant wrap their tiny little elitist brains around it, then the findings must be faulty

Exit Question: What would they be saying about this if it were Bush?

[Sponsor]

[Solus]

It should be no surprise to anyone.  The whole Constitution and Bill of Rights is as clear a statement of distrust of government as you can get....after the writings and opinions of the Founding  Fathers.

This country was founded upon a healthy and necessary distrust of the government.  The definition of government is an agent of The People that needs to be reined in and throttled continuously to prevent it from becoming a threat to those it was created to serve.

If the entire populace of the US had just one tenth of this awareness and belief that the Founding Fathers had, T&T would be ordinary candidates and politicians would be respected for their service....or long since hung.

[Ichiban]

Sooooo, is this saying that 44% actually suckle at the government teat?  That is about the same percentage that doesn't pay taxes.

During 2006, Tax Foundation economists estimate that roughly 43.4 million tax returns, representing 91 million individuals, will face a zero or negative tax liability. That's out of a total of 136 million federal tax returns that will be filed. Adding to this figure the 15 million households and individuals who file no tax return at all, roughly 121 million Americans—or 41 percent of the U.S. population—will be completely outside the federal income tax system in 2006.1 This total includes those who pay no tax, and those who pay some tax upfront and are later refunded the full amount of the tax paid or more.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/1410.html

[tombogan03884]

Rasmussen has had several similar polls that reached the same conclusion

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/february_2010/51_fear_government_more_than_private_health_insurers

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track

[twyacht]

"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
Mark Twain (1866)

140+/- years later, ol' Twain IS STILL CORRECT!!!!!

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson

230+/- years later, ol' Jefferson IS STILL CORRECT!!!!

 

Hello!!!!!! Have we gotten it yet??