{"id":18961,"date":"2013-09-24T13:56:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18961"},"modified":"2013-09-24T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:51:33","slug":"gallup-view-that-govt-is-too-powerful-reaches-all-time-high-under-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18961\/gallup-view-that-govt-is-too-powerful-reaches-all-time-high-under-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup:  View that Gov&#8217;t is too Powerful Reaches All-Time High Under Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we highlighted how Obama&#8217;s hyperkinetic expansion of federal government power has only served to drive Americans&#8217; trust in it to a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1968-poll-obama-has-driven-americans-confidence-in-government-to-record-low\" target=\"_blank\">record low<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Presidents like Reagan and Clinton who publicly commit to moderating federal government expansion have increased Americans\u2019 trust in government competence.\u00a0 In contrast, President Obama seeks at every turn to enlarge the federal government, but has degraded trust in it to all-time lows.\u00a0 We can thank Obama for few things, but reaffirming Reagan\u2019s observation that government has become more of a problem than a solution is one of them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This week, a separate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/164591\/americans-belief-gov-powerful-record-level.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=syndication&amp;utm_content=plaintextlink&amp;utm_term=All\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup poll<\/a> affirms Obama&#8217;s unintended causal relationship.\u00a0 Specifically, the belief that the federal government is too powerful has reached a record level:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six in 10 Americans (60%) believe the federal government has too much power, one percentage point above the previous high recorded in September 2010.\u00a0 At least half of Americans since 2005 have said the government has too much power.\u00a0 Thirty-two percent now say the government has the right amount of power.\u00a0 Few say it has too little power.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When Obama entered office, the disparity between those saying the federal government possessed too much power versus those saying it possessed the right amount or too little power was just 1 point, 50% to 49%.\u00a0 Today, the disparity has ballooned to 21%, proving welcome confirmation that Americans still tend to believe that limited government is the best government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we highlighted how Obama&#8217;s hyperkinetic expansion of federal government power has only served to drive Americans&#8217; trust in it to a record low: Presidents like Reagan and Clinton who publicly commit to moderating federal government expansion have increased Americans\u2019 trust in government competence.\u00a0 In contrast, President Obama seeks at every turn to enlarge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2825,842,24,4282],"class_list":["post-18961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-federal-government","tag-gallup","tag-obama","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18963,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions\/18963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}