51% Think It’s Government Responsibility To Get Ev

51% Think It’s Government Responsibility To Get Everyone A Job

On this evening’s Beltway Boys, Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke debated whether the Obama porkulus amounted to socialism, with Mort vehemently denying it and Fred suggesting we’re on the road to European-style democratic socialism. My two cents: does anyone really think the Dems don’t find Swedish cradle-to-grave government groovy?

Along the way, the guys displayed a recent Fox News poll. There was some good news and some very bad news. On the one hand,t 76% think Americans are starting to rely too much on government. But when it got down to specifics, way too many Americans think it’s government’s job to do way too many things. The most depressing/disturbing poll result: a majority think it’s the government’s responsibility to “make sure all Americans have jobs.”

[blacklabman]

Mort is a flaming idiot!

[Sonsie]

The most depressing/disturbing poll result: a majority think it’s the government’s responsibility to “make sure all Americans have jobs.”

Sure, bring back the workhouses and poorhouses of yesteryear. It will be amazing how fast people will get industrious and find work.