According to a Rockefeller Foundation poll, 85% of us believe that the country is on the wrong track.  Nearly half of those between ages 18 and 29 say America was better in the 90s.  People in that age group weren’t that old in he 90s, however, and you should probably ask their parents what they think.  82% want public works projects, paid for, of course, by our taxes, to save the economy.  70% say more government programs should help those now struggling.

Why do so many people think that the government that got us into this financial mess actually has the power or the know-how to fix things?  Why is everybody giving up and holding out their hands to wait for the government to take care of them?  Where is the work ethic that once pushed people to either work more or make yourself worth more to earn more money?

The amount of government we have has gotten us to where we are now.  More government will only mean more taxes and more problems.  We need to eliminate income tax and personal property tax right off the bat.  From there we need to reduce our military involvement from 130 countries around the world to one: ours.  We need to stop foreign aid and take of ourselves for a change.

We need to drastically reconfigure our government to a simpler, more economical version, the likes of which we haven’t seen for nearly 100 years.  But as long as 70% of people think MORE government is the answer, we will only continue along this path of decline.  That being the case, it looks more and more like our experiment in democracy is failing and this country is being swallowed by socialism.

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