Gallup: In U.S., Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level. (Gallup) Click the image for a larger view.
President Barack Obama and the mainstream media like nothing better than to vilify business and dote over the Occupy Wall Street protestors and their attempts to save us from the evils of capitalism. However, a new poll shows that Americans are far more concerned about their own government than they are business.
The poll released by Gallup this week shows that fear of big government is approaching record setting levels as 64% of Americans view it as “the biggest threat to the country in the future.”
Problematic for Obama is the fact that our fears of the government have done nothing but grow since he took office – from 55% to today’s 64%, a near record setting level. His main theme of a government nanny state is the opposite of what we the people want.
Further, the biggest jump came not from Republicans as you might expect. Democrats’ fear of big government grew by and far the largest as it skyrocketed from 32% in 2009 to 48% today. That is a massive rise that serves as a repudiation of the president’s vision of big government leading us to salvation.
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Republicans saw slight increases from 80% to 82%. The crucial independents saw significant increases in their fears of government from 59% to 64% since 2009.
Certainly one would think that with the president’s attempt to slap down job creators and all the attention OWS protestors receive would have made people scared of businesses. That however is not the case. The poll shows that Americans fear business less today than since George W Bush took office.
Perhaps the President and the leftists in Congress should take note of this poll and understand what the biggest impediment is to putting the country on the course to recovery. It is not business. It is government.
We don’t want to be saved from ourselves. We don’t want to be saved from big business. What Americans do want is for government to get the hell out of the way and stay out of their lives. Are you listening Washington DC?
