Tuesday, September 01, 2009

DO AMERICANS LOVE GOVERNMENT?

Nope. 57% would like to replace the entire Congress.

Count me in that 57%.

Some other interesting results:

... Fifty-nine percent (59%) now believe that members of Congress are overpaid.

... [M]ost voters say they understand the health care legislation better than Congress. Just 22% think the legislature has a good understanding of the issue. Three-out-of-four (74%) trust their own economic judgment more than Congress’.

... Seventy-five percent (75%) say members of Congress are more interested in their own careers than they are in helping people.

The last item interests me because it's symptomatic of the fundamental problem: government is too damn big.

It strikes me as axiomatic that congresscritters are always more interested in their own careers than on the people they represent; it's just that when government is big, their careers no longer depend on the interests of the people they represent.

Via Instapundit.

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