This is interesting:
Fewer voters than ever feel the federal government has the consent of the governed.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 17% of Likely U.S. Voters think the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-nine percent (69%) believe the government does not have that consent. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The number of voters who feel the government has the consent of the governed – a foundational principle, contained in the Declaration of Independence – is down from 23% in early May and has fallen to its lowest level measured yet.
Tell me something: when a majority of the people feel the government doesn’t have the consent of the governed, how can you possibly say that it does? We are there, Guys and Dolls.
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Count me in the 69%.
As long as I don’t have the ability to opt out of collectivist programs the government creates, or worst of all those created before I was born, then they have neither asked nor will they ever receive my consent.
Crusader Rabbit wrote:
I think you could say the same with regard to spending.
How can anyone claim that children who haven’t been born yet had any say about the trillions of dollars they’re going to be expected to pay back for stuff that was bought by their grandparents?
@ lobo91:
Exactly.
This is why any debt authority to the federal government is a tyrranical. In the shortest of short terms federal debt might be a necessary evil, but in any and all cases it is unquestionably an evil.