Big Government Go Away

Sunday Paper - May 17th, 2009

Colin Powell has recently made the false claim that Americans want more government in their lives.  Maybe Powell was speaking of South Americans, like those Venezuelans who support the brutal dictator Hugo Chavez.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell recently made news by saying that Americans “want more government in their life.” Americans disagree. Most — 71 percent — say they want less government in their life. A much smaller number (17 percent) fall in the category described by Powell.

The irresponsible, over-spending Obama administration likes to disguise their irrational behavior and misuse of U.S. taxpayers’ monies by using innocuous terms such as ‘invest’ or ‘investment.’  However, a large majority of Americans (nearly 80 percent) aren’t being duped, knowing that Obama and his henchmen are simply spending their hard-earned tax dollars.

This from FOXNews.com - May 15th, 2009

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/15/fox-news-poll-americans-want-government-spending/

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