Most Americans Like Big Government

A January 14, 2010 Harris poll showed that most Americans, Democrats and Republicans, approve of most big government programs.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken

Astoundingly, 90% of American adults support Medicare, a program that forces your participation, and is a contributing cause of the cost of health care increases and increases in government borrowing.

Medicare premiums are based on one's adjusted gross income. The premiums for higher income earners went up an incredible 15% in 2010! Try to imagine a private insurance company telling its customers that their premiums are based on a sliding scale of your income. It would be a great sales pitch! People would buy insurance from that company out of envy and greed, only to find out there are no higher income clients buying the product because higher income people buy insurance from another company that does not charge on a sliding scale.

The Harris poll also shows- Other very popular services include crime-fighting and prevention (88% support, 47% "a great deal"), Social Security (86% support and 53% "a great deal"); defense (83% and 47% "a great deal"); the national parks (83% support and 41% "a great deal"); unemployment benefits (82% support and 39% "a great deal") and federal aid to public schools (81% support and 43% "A great deal").

Social Security, another government program, is failing. Still, people believe in the plundering of others for their own perceived long term safety.

Federal aid to public schools is supported by 81%! Do these people know anything about the U.S. Constitution? No where in the constitution does it say the Federal Government has the right to give money to local schools.

"It is interesting that while government, and "Washington," are generally unpopular, 12 of the 13 major federal government services are supported by more than half of all adults, ten are supported by more than 70%, and seven are supported by more than 80%."

Many people perceive the State as community property. These people who approve of big government are expecting more from the community than they put in. The supporters of all these big government programs don't care if they are leaving their children in debt for the government borrowing to pay for these programs. Their delusions are that the government will solve the problem. Delusions are necessary to escape reality and live a pretend life, something the human animal, pretending, excels at.

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish. Frederick Basitat