Gallup’s recent update of its long-standing trend question on whether big business, big labor, or big government will be the biggest threat to the country in the future finds Americans still viewing big government as the most serious threat. However, compared to Gallup’s last pre-financial-crisis measurement in December 2006, more now see big business and fewer see big government as the greater threat.
These shifts in attitudes have occurred even as the government has taken on an expanded role in regulating U.S. financial institutions in response to the financial crisis, under the Bush and Obama administrations.
Big business is only a threat insofar as it cuddles up with Big Government, and that’s exactly what we’re seeing today. Bill Gates, try as he might, can’t lay a finger on me, my family or my property without my individual consent. In fact, he seems to spend most of the time begging me to associate with him. Contrast this with government, where each and every “request” comes with a gun stuck in one’s ribs.
I know which I prefer.
I agree both with the headline, and with Jeffersonian’s post.
Which is why I supported the local Tea Party.