{"id":4387,"date":"2010-03-24T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2010-03-24T10:01:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:01:50","slug":"fox-news-poll-nearly-80-of-americans-believe-u-s-economy-could-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4387\/fox-news-poll-nearly-80-of-americans-believe-u-s-economy-could-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Poll:  Nearly 80% of Americans Believe U.S. Economy Could Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/23\/fox-news-poll-say-economy-collapse\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fox News<\/em> poll<\/a>, nearly\u00a0four out of every five voters (79%) feel the U.S. economy could collapse and that Washington has no credible plan to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>That pessimism is not held by voters identifying with just one political party either.\u00a0 72% of Democrats, 84% of Republicans and 80% of Independents share the pessimism about the economy, while just 18% of all voters surveyed think it\u2019s &#8220;so big and strong it could never collapse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before you go blaming those greedy Wall Street suits for the nation\u2019s gloom, read this little nugget from FoxNews.com\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/23\/fox-news-poll-say-economy-collapse\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> on the poll:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>78 percent of voters believe the federal government is \u2018larger and more costly\u2019 than it has ever been before, and by nearly three-to-one more voters think the national debt (65 percent) is a greater potential threat to the country\u2019s future than terrorism (23 percent). \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree in 10 American voters (30 percent) say they are comfortable with the size and role of the federal government right now, while 65 percent say the government has become too big and \u2018is restricting American freedoms.\u2019&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recently released Fox News poll, nearly\u00a0four out of every five voters (79%) feel the U.S. economy could collapse and that Washington has no credible plan to fix it. That pessimism is not held by voters identifying with just one political party either.\u00a0 72% of Democrats, 84% of Republicans and 80% of Independents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,357,991],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-fox-news","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}