Depressing poll of the day: Public opposes cuts to virtually all types of spending

Hotair ^ | 92/22/2013 | AllahPundit

[SeekAndFind]

[albie]

The “education” graph is the most depressing. People really for that “for the chillin” BS.

[EternalVigilance]

Telling.

[GoldenPup]

Depressing poll of the day: Public opposes cuts to virtually all types of spending

99 & 44/100 % PURE BULLSHIT.

[cripplecreek]

On the bright side, Ann Arbor Michigan was approved for an $800,000 grant out of transportation funds to pave a bike path. /s

Its like living in a nation full of children who were never disciplined or told “No”.

[ReaganGeneration2]

These polls ask about cuts, not about freezes or slowing down growth (say, keeping at +1%).

These polls also don’t ask about bringing all troops home or pumping their money into the Fed.

[COBOL2Java]

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
- An expression of a sentiment often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville or Alexander Fraser Tytler

[ClearCase_guy]

This is why we are not a democracy.
This is why mob rule is a bad thing.

The people elect leaders.
The leaders are supposed to lead.
The leaders are supposed to be smart enough to know that fiscal responsibility is simply mandatory.

[q_an_a]

geez...are these the same polling folks that said Romney was gaining ground and could win? Or is this the one where you first have to admit you have more than 20,000 in credit card debt to qualify.

[mosesdapoet]

Watch the GOPES in the senate eat this up with Rove’s RINOS using this as tap city from funders. Republicans should not let these “polls” divert the drive to attack regime administration policy the counter attack should be waste and corruption.

[qwerty1234]

Of course the public doesn't want any cuts, who doesn't want more free stuff? After all, the members of both parties have been basically spending money we don't have, to give to people and essentially telling people 'don't worry about it, nobody has to pay for this stuff'. If any good can come from large tax increases (as long as they are broad-based) it may cause at least some people to tune into the fact that things cost money...in other words, as long as everything is free, who is going to complain?

[JohnPDuncan]

I listened to the Peter Schiff show the other day and he made a good point that in all these polls people will always approve of raising someone elses taxes but he suggested the question be framed like should the Federal government raise YOUR taxes to pay for all this government? the taxes that YOU pay? And he said I bet they say NO!

His point was that even if you took all the “rich’s” money there is not enough to pay for all this government and that the burden always falls on those further down.

[AlwaysThinking]

I think it’s plausible, maybe even rock-solid.

The overwhelming majority of Americans agree government spends too much money, but can’t pin down where they’d like to see cuts. There’s a disconnect, a failure of logic.

No one, including Congress, wants to make the hard choices that must be made if we are to avoid fiscal ruin. And why should they? They pay a higher price politically for being responsible than they do for being reckless.

Our fate is sealed.

[sphinx]

The poll is true enough as far as it goes. But everything depends on how the question is framed, which is why the leftist media is such a problem.

I'm reasonably certain that one could find majority support in polls for: (a) slowing the rate of growth of spending in xyz; (b) putting major entitlements on a sustainable basis; (c) allowing people to create a real investment option with ownership rights and inheritability in Social Security; (d) putting people and their doctors, not bureaucrats, in charge of health care decisions; etc.

The poll cited here simply shows that people want basic social services, including a reasonable safety net. Well heck, so do I. The issue is whether we believe that big, government controlled, collectivist solutions are the most cost effective and workable. I don't believe that, and neither do most here. And neither, I think, does a majority of the American people, provided that the question is framed correctly.

[sphinx]

The poll is true enough as far as it goes. But everything depends on how the question is framed, which is why the leftist media is such a problem.

I'm reasonably certain that one could find majority support in polls for: (a) slowing the rate of growth of spending in xyz; (b) putting major entitlements on a sustainable basis; (c) allowing people to create a real investment option with ownership rights and inheritability in Social Security; (d) putting people and their doctors, not bureaucrats, in charge of health care decisions; etc.

The poll cited here simply shows that people want basic social services, including a reasonable safety net. Well heck, so do I. The issue is whether we believe that big, government controlled, collectivist solutions are the most cost effective and workable. I don't believe that, and neither do most here. And neither, I think, does a majority of the American people, provided that the question is framed correctly.

[THX 1138]

99 & 44/100 % PURE BULLSHIT.

Agreed.

Since when have we paid attention to left wing push polls? Ones designed, not to tell us what is actually going on, but to intimidate the wobbly RINOs?

[q_an_a]

stupid republicans AND Rove’s RINO’s...they should be running advertising -”WE already raised taxes on people and now the President says that is not enough...soon he want to tax you too!!” but they just play silly games about guns or immigrants and NEVER GET OR HOLD THE HIGH GROUND. How do you win the war staying on the beach? Storm the cliffs, attack!!

[IMR 4350]

The only thing this poll shows is people didn’t want to show their ignorance of the issue so they said keep it the same.

[muawiyah]

PEW published a report last May that demonstrates why you should no longer accept any poll results at face value.

This is a PEW poll. Do not accept it.