How Much Government is Too Much?
The current discussion about what Americans now think of government, to which NPR has devoted this whole week, can be summed up in one very old Borscht Belt joke:
Two ladies discuss a Catskills hotel: “How did you like it?”
“It was awful. The food was terrible, and there wasn’t enough of it.”
That’s roughly what the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reported in “Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor: The People and Their Government” about the principal findings from a series of surveys designed to provide a detailed picture of the public’s opinions about government.
The bottom line? The government’s terrible, and there isn’t enough of it.
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