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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (111367)	8/26/2011 11:23:12 AM
From: TideGlider	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224723

54% Say States Should Be Able To Opt Out of Federal Programs Friday, August 26, 2011 to ignore federal programs they don’t like, especially if the federal government doesn’t help pay for them. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters believe states should have the right to opt out of federal programs they don’t agree with. Thirty-one percent (31%) disagree and say states shouldn’t have the right to opt out while 15% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Support for states’ rights jumps higher when the question involves federally mandated programs with no checks attached. Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters think states should have the right to opt out of such programs if the federal government doesn’t help pay for them. Twenty-one percent (21%) disagree and 16% are undecided. Data released yesterday showed that 50% of now believe the federal government has too much influence over state governments. Only 11% think it has too little influence. Fifty-four percent (54%) think states should have the right to opt out of the new national health care law or any portion of it that they disagree with. More than half the states are challenging the constitutionality of the health care law in court, many focusing on the requirement that every American must have health insurance. Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters say letting states compete to determine the most effective standards and guidelines would do more to reduce health care costs than having the federal government calling the shots. Most voters also continue to favor repeal of the health care law as they have every week but one since its passage by Congress in March 2010. There’s a wide difference of opinion on both questions between the Political Class and Mainstream voters. Sixty-six percent (66%) of those in the Mainstream think states should have the right to opt out of federal programs, but 82% of Political Class voters disagree. Similarly, while 74% of Mainstream voters feel states should be able to reject unfunded federal mandates, 80% of the Political Class oppose giving states that power. (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on August 23-24, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. Tea Party members are twice as likely as non-members to think states should be allowed to opt out of federal programs they disagree with. Male voters believe more strongly than female voters that states should be able to reject federal programs they don’t agree with. Pro-life voters agree much more than pro-choice voters do. Support for letting states opt out of all federal programs is down a few points compared to February of last year. Seventy-three percent (73%) of Republicans and 61% of voters not affiliated with either of the major parties think states should have the right to opt out of federal programs. Fifty-four percent (54%) of Democrats disagree. When it comes to unfunded mandates from the federal government, GOP voters and unaffiliated voters are even more strongly opposed, and a plurality (43%) of Democrats share that opposition. One-in-five Americans believe individual states have the right to break away from the country, although a majority doesn’t believe it will actually happen. The federal government is now challenging Alabama’s new crackdown on illegal immigration in federal court on the same grounds it’s using to stop the law Arizona passed last year. But 67% of voters think a state should have the right to enforce immigration laws if it believes the federal government is not enforcing them. While a number of states now face serious budget shortfalls, most voters continue to oppose federal bailouts to help them out. Fifty-four percent (54%) oppose allowing states to file for bankruptcy. Just 17% of voters believe the federal government now has the consent of the governed.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (111367)	8/26/2011 11:29:26 AM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224723

Required reading for you Kenneth

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (111367)	8/26/2011 11:36:11 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224723

Tell us how things are going to work out in Libya, Kenny.......A beacon for democracy in the region or a tribal run hell hole with acres of blood soaked sand?.....or maybe something in between.......Tell us your vision on how it will play out and who you will blame if it goes bad. Better yet, tell us who you would tax first over there to make the place pure heaven on earth.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (111367)	8/26/2011 11:55:07 AM
From: lorne	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224723

Inhofe lays long list of nation’s ills at Obama’s feet BLAME GAME U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe: He said Obama is at fault for the U.S. debt problem. By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer Published: 8/24/201 tulsaworld.com BROKEN ARROW — President Barack Obama alone is to blame for the nation’s budget deficit – and just about everything else, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe told the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. “We now have a president, and I don’t mean this disrespectfully, who is destroying these very institutions that made America great,” Inhofe, R-Okla., said. Inhofe went on to say the Obama administration has “disarmed America,” is solely responsible for the federal budget deficit, mostly responsible for the nation’s dependence on imported oil and suffocating business with regulations. He also said Obama engineered the House Republicans’ ban on earmarks in order to give himself more control of the budget. “When they came along with this moratorium, you have to let the president run everything,” Inhofe said. “They conceded that authority to the president of the United States, so that’s why the president was behind the whole earmark thing." Inhofe said the earmark ban allowed the administration to block a new $10 million control tower scheduled for Tinker Air Force Base. He said military spending, as a share of gross domestic product, has declined during the Obama administration and criticized unflattering descriptions of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where terror suspects are held, saying, “You know the biggest problem for prisoners when they get to Gitmo? Obesity." Inhofe said the idea that prisoners have been tortured there was invented by Obama and others “to make you think something bad is happening in America — the same thing he does and others do when they go around talking about how bad America is." Inhofe said the deficit is Obama’s fault because “it’s the president’s budget. Period. That’s the end of it." He said the recent debtlimit agreement is a sham that does little or nothing to reduce overall spending. One solution, he continued, would be to repeal the health-care reform law, which he said is an example of “social engineering” designed to make Americans more dependent on the federal government. Inhofe also cited extended unemployment benefits, saying he saw no reason for them in Oklahoma because the state has “virtually full employment." Inhofe laid out a long list of regulatory steps he said would cost taxpayers and employers billions of dollars in taxes and lost productivity, and said the country could be “totally independent from the Middle East in a matter of weeks, not years,” if the administration allowed unfettered oil and gas development on public lands. Noting that he will not be up for re-election until 2014, Inhofe said, “Don’t misunderstand, (nothing) I’m saying now is for political purposes."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (111367)	8/26/2011 12:45:39 PM
From: MJ	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224723

Did McCain push to do that----------again another misleading head line. Read the whole article.