Don't Trust Any Politicians Over The Age Of...

Tonight's post is a short one and covers the issue of trusting politicians, both in America and in Iran. Starting in America, a recent survey from the Pew research Center was reviewed in an Associated Press article on April 19, 2010. Highlights of the article include:

• According to the survey, nearly 8 out of 10 Americans do not trust the Federal government and have little faith it can solve the issues facing the country.
• Nearly half of the respondents say the government negatively affects their daily lives, a result that has been growing over the years.
• More than fifty percent call Washington too big and too powerful.
• More than fifty percent say Washington is interfering too much in state and local matters.
• About fifty percent say they want a smaller government with fewer services while only 40% want a bigger government providing more.
• "Trust in government rarely gets this low." is a quote in the article from Andrew Kohut, director at Pew.
• This anger against government does not know political party bounds with Obama, Bush, and politicians from both major parties feeling the anger of respondents.

The good news is that the majority of Americans are finally realizing that the political class and the government it runs are getting much too big and too interfering in their lives. This is the basic message that "Love My Country, Loathe My Government" tried to impart: we do not live in a free country anymore and that reduction in freedom was directly but inversely related to the growth in power the political class now wields over our lives.

The bad news is that 40% of Americans still think that expanding government is a good idea. As we have reviewed many, many times in this blog, the political class has not solved any major issue facing this country in over forty years including a failed war on drugs, a failed public education system, a failed energy policy, a failed homeland security defense, a failed budget and deficit management process, etc. When we will all realize that government only reduces our freedom, bankrupts both this generation and future generations with skyrocketing debt, divides the country into warring "tribes" in order to get re-elected over and over while solving nothing. Government needs to be severely reduced at the Washington level in order to restore our freedom, return our wealth, and get the political class much more focused on only the big issues. Only then MIGHT they be able to solve something. Then we might actually trust our politicians to do the right thing. Until they earn that trust by performing, don't trust any politicians, whatever their age.

However, probably best not to trust Iranian politicians either. In an Associated Press article on April 19, 2010, it was reported that a top governing Iranian cleric said that women that wear immodest clothing and are promiscuous are causing earthquakes. And how did he know that women's behavior caused earthquakes? According to him a divine authority told him. How can you trust leaders or politicians that make these kinds of assertions? This is almost as comical as Obama saying that his health care legislation will reduce the Federal deficit. What is the biggest fairy tale? Who cares, they are both not to be trusted.

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