By Matt Hawes
More and more Americans are realizing that “hope and change” really means “status and quo.”
Via Rasmussen:
Eighty-three percent (83%) of Americans say the size of the federal budget deficit is due more to the unwillingness of politicians to cut government spending than to the reluctance of taxpayers to pay more in taxes….
Just 11% of all voters now think the government spends taxpayers’ money wisely and well. Seventy-eight percent (78%) do not believe that to be true….
Last February, President Obama pledged a tough, unprecedented oversight effort” to make sure the public’s money was not wasted in any of the administration’s multi-billion dollar reform and economic plans. At that time, 46% of Americans were at least somewhat confident that their money would be wisely and carefully spent, while 50% lacked that confidence….