{"id":15284,"date":"2010-04-19T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/80-of-people-say-no-more-government\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T17:30:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:30:53","slug":"80-of-people-say-no-more-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/80-of-people-say-no-more-government.php","title":{"rendered":"80% of People Say: No More Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

So why don't we have a nationwide vote on whether or not to just get rid of government altogether<\/a>? Ironically, being an anarchist, I myself would abstain from voting even on this issue.<\/p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they do not trust the government to do what is right, expressing the highest level of distrust in Washington in half a century, according to a public opinion survey.<\/p>

Only 22 percent of Americans say they trust the government \"just about always\" or \"most of the time,\" according to the Pew Research Center survey released on Sunday.<\/p>

Americans' trust in the federal government has been on a steady decline from a high of 73 percent during the Eisenhower administration in 1958, when the \"trust\" question was first posed in a national survey, the research center said.<\/p>

Economic uncertainty, a highly partisan environment and overwhelming discontent with Congress and elected officials were all factors contributing to the current wave of public distrust, the report said.<\/p>

The long, bitter debate over the healthcare law that President Barack Obama signed last month made negative feeling about government, particularly Congress, even worse, according to the report based on a series of surveys of some 5,000 people.<\/p>

About 25 percent had a favorable opinion of Congress, the lowest in 25 years of surveying, and less than half (40 percent) said the Obama administration was doing an excellent or good job, Pew said.<\/p>

Americans were found to be more frustrated than angry, with 56 percent expressing frustration with the federal government, compared with 21 percent who said they were angry.<\/p>

Forty-three percent of Republicans, 50 percent of independents who lean Republican and 57 percent of those who agree with the Tea Party movement said the government presents a major threat to their personal freedom.<\/p>

That compares with 18 percent of Democrats, 21 percent of independents who lean Democratic and 9 percent of those who disagree with the Tea Party movement.<\/p>

The main survey of 2,505 adults was conducted March 11-21. Three other surveys of about 1,000 adults each were conducted March 18-21, April 1-5 and April 8-11. The margin of sampling error for the surveys is plus or minus 4 percentage points.<\/p>

(Reporting by Joanne Allen, Editing by Vicki Allen)<\/p><\/blockquote>

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