Manzanita Miller-by 60% to 37% Americans Say Govt Wasteful-Inefficient

In an article on MHProNews linked here the recent article by Manzanita Miller via the Daily Torch unpacks a recent New York Times survey that made this insightful finding. "Americans say by twenty-three points – 60 percent to 37 percent – that government is almost always wasteful and inefficient," said Miller who cited the left-leaning New York Times survey. Miller's column is provided in Part I below. In Part II in this article will consider the remark from then-Senator Barack Obama (IL-D) before he was elected as President of the United States (POTUS) and other information.

Part I

What The Left and The Global Peanut Gallery Are Missing is America’s Course-Correction Extends Far Beyond Trump

By Manzanita Miller

President Donald Trump is popular among just over half the country – with a recent YouGov poll showing 49 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the president while 48 percent have an unfavorable view. That said, support for the bedrock of Trump’s America First governing philosophy extends well beyond support for Trump himself.

Trump’s popularity is baffling to those on the left and to certain so-called global allies who are in shock over our decision to re-elect him. But what the global political apparatus really missed leading up to Trump’s second victory – and historic win of the popular vote – is just how popular Trump’s ideas are, far beyond his base, and far beyond how people feel about Trump himself.

In Trump’s first term, pundits would often claim that Americans didn’t know what they were voting for, or only elected Trump because of his “celebrity status”. There was an assumption among political elites that Americans were drawn to the “maverick-style” in which Trump presented himself, and that was it.

While Trump absolutely instigated a revolution among the politically disengaged with his common-sense approach to discussing issues, he was elected twice because of more than that.

Americans are hungry for a return to early American values – which include putting our citizens first, maintaining a secure border, reducing our presence in overseas conflicts, and rethinking long-standing norms such as our reliance on cheap foreign labor and our dependence on foreign energy.

Polling even shows more Americans wish to return to more traditional social values, such as keeping men out of women’s sorts and hormone-transition out of reach of children.

Trump was the figurehead who initially recognized and spoke on deeply destructive trends in American culture and business that needed to be changed, and he should be credited with bringing these issues to light and making it politically acceptable to discuss them.

But support for a return to America First principles extends far, far, beyond support for President Trump himself, and that should be chilling if you are on the left, and the hint of a new dawn if you are on the right.

A recent poll from the New York Times shows just how far support for Trump’s America First policies extend among the general public. It also reveals a majority of Americans share Trump’s view that the elites have used the political apparatus to serve themselves, not the people.

The poll also finds a strong populist sentiment among a majority of Americans, with well over half the country saying we should focus inward on domestic issues instead of taking a heavy-hand in global affairs.

According to the Tim[e]s poll, Americans say by twenty-three points – 60 percent to 37 percent – that government is almost always wasteful and inefficient. This includes a startling number of Democrats – 45 percent – as well as 47 percent of independents and a full 78 percent of Republicans.

Almost three-quarters of Americans – 72 percent – agree that the government is mostly working to serve the elites, while only a quarter say the government is working to serve the people.

Over two-thirds of Democrats – 67 percent – and 61 percent of independents say the government mainly serves the elites not the people. Eighty percent of Republicans feel this way.

The poll shows a striking desire to draw back in global affairs and focus on domestic issues. Sixty percent of Americans say it is best to focus less on global affairs and concentrate on problems here at home, while 38 percent say it is best to be active in global affairs.

Once again, a striking number of Democrats – 47 percent – agree with the populist approach of focusing on domestic issues rather than taking a heavy-hand in global affairs. Fifty-eight percent of independents and a full 75 percent of Republicans favor the populist approach.

When it comes to tackling illegal immigration, the notion that a reversal of the destructive Open Borders agenda of the Biden Administration must be undone extends far beyond Trump’s base.

Two-thirds of Americans – 64 percent – say they strongly or somewhat support deporting all illegals who arrived during the four years Biden was president. Americans support mass deportation by forty percentage points – 64 percent to 24 percent.

Democrats oppose the deportation but only by eleven points, with 55 percent of Democrats saying they oppose deporting every illegal who arrived under Biden while 44 percent support doing so.

Independents support mass deportation by fourteen points, 38 percent to 24 percent, and Republicans support mass deportation by 75 points, 87 percent to 12 percent.

Even on thorny cultural issues, public support for the radical left’s gender ideology has plummeted, and Americans are embracing a rational, science-based approach to protecting women and children. The public says by 28 points – 49 percent to 21 percent – that society has gone too far in accommodating the trans agenda.

Americans say by a whopping sixty-one-point-margin – 79 percent to 18 percent – that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports. By another sixty-one-point-margin Americans reject allowing puberty blockers to be given to children under eighteen – 71 percent to 10 percent.

President Trump will go down in the history books as one of the most pivotal figures of the 21st century, and a president who steered the United States onto a very different path than the dark one it was headed down. But what the left and frankly the global peanut gallery is missing, is that American’s support for a limited government that is rational and responsive to its people goes far beyond Trump himself.

It is something Americans determined for themselves when they formed a country, and though that country has been nearly wrenched away from them multiple times by self-serving elites, those values of self-determination and a government that represents its people are deeply American.

Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.

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Part II - Additional Information with More Facts, Analysis, Commentary and More Topics

1) From the article linked here on Manufactured Home Pro News (MHProNews.com) are the following quotes, facts, and observations.

2) Then U.S. Senator from Illinois and now former President Barack Obama (D) made the remark, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” during a campaign rally in Columbia, Missouri on October 30, 2008.”

3) It is safe to say that Obama was not a limited government guy. As the Mercatus Center said: "As the...chart [below] demonstrates, publicly held debt almost doubled during President Obama’s eight years in office—it went from $7.5 trillion in 2009 to $14.1 trillion in 2016. The [next] chart illustrates the growth in debt as a share of the economy; debt held by the public rose from 52 percent of GDP to 77 percent of GDP over the same period." Federal spending mushroomed under the two terms of Barack Obama-Joe Biden (D).

4) As left-leaning NPR, a largely pro--Obama news source, reported in 2015: "Jeb Bush is fond of pointing out that the number of people in poverty has gone up by 6 million since President Obama took office. He brought up the figure in the GOP debate, and he repeats it often on the campaign trail. It's not a new criticism — Mitt Romney hurled similar criticisms at Obama in the 2012 campaign."

NPR continued as follows.

"The numbers

Bush is right, if you allow him a little bit of creative rounding. The most recent official count from the Census Bureau put the number of Americans in poverty at 45.3 million as of 2013 (the most recent year for which the census has measured poverty). That's not quite 5.5 million more people in poverty than there were in 2008, just before Obama took office. So there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 million more people in poverty now than there were before Obama took office.

Of course, the number that makes more sense to compare is the poverty rate — after all, while the number of Americans in poverty has grown, so has the total number of Americans. Even then, the numbers aren't in President Obama's favor — 13.2 percent of Americans were in poverty in 2008. As of 2013, it was 14.5 percent."

5) What else is the legacy of Obama's 8 years of efforts to fundamentally transform America? Per Doug Ross via the Journal are the following.

6) Put briefly, from sources on both sides of the left-right media and political divide, Obama-Biden's (D) big government programs didn't work. They failed to deliver on a range of promises, not just one or two.

7) Now, let's remind new readers and returning ones alike that this writer is a political independent and have been since my wife, son, and I moved to Florida over a dozen years ago. As a history buff and as a trade journalist who routinely sources information across the left-right divide, I'm looking for facts and evidence of what works and what doesn't.

8) After 8 years in office, Obama-Biden (D) left the nation with more poverty, a growing affordable housing crisis, federal debt that had nearly doubled, and the list goes on (see graphics in Part II #3 and #5 above). The nation turned to former Democrat turned Republican Donald J. Trump to lead. After 4 years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (D), the citizens once again voted for Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance, this time, by even a wider margin than Trump's previously victory as measured by the popular vote. The Electoral College vote margin also increased for Trump.

• (2016) Donald J. Trump-Mike Pence 304 vs. Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine 227.

9) The reasons beyond prayer that caused the public to vote for Trump-Vance over Harris-Walz are many, some of which were outlined by Miller in her article in Part I. Other items were addressed by Robert Romano and Star Parker in their respective recent posts linked here.

10) There are early positive steps taken by the Trump Team that merit applause. Time will tell on other matters, such as on the affordable housing front. That said, POTUS Trump HUD Nominee E. Scott Turner candidly said that HUD is failing at its core mission.

Turner said it well: 'We're not building enough housing. We need millions of homes of all kinds, single family, apartments, manufactured homes.' The question is, will Turner as HUD Secretary break with the precedent of many of his 21st century leaders at HUD who often kept doing what has been proven not to work, mainly because special interests want it to be so.

Land-use expert for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Nicholas Julian flatly said that without subsidies, conventional ‘site builders’ can't build housing that is affordable.

Jerry Howard, prior CEO of the NAHB said that in amost no market can builders produce a new house that is affordable for first time home buyers.

Facts are whatever they are.

Truth is true regardless if it is said by someone from the left, center, or right.

In many cases, individuals and organizations need to have their remarks sifted per the ancient wisdom of separating the proverbial wheat from the chaff.

While the planned fisking of a socialist attorney will debunk some of that professional's claims, one thing that individual said that sadly has some merit is this. "Housing in this country is anything but a free market system..." While it is a mix of accurate and inaccurate remarks, that statement is demonstrably true.

Free market believers, limited government believers, are all too often failing to point out specific ways that the free market is being thwarted in a fashion that costs taxpayers tens of billions annually and is costing low to moderate income individuals the opportunities that they would otherwise enjoy if the market was being allowed to operate normally.

Government is not efficient. If the New York Times and ALG's Miller are correct, most of the population has come to believe that, at least per that survey. There may be a tidal shift underway.

Learn more in the related reports and among the other topics that follow. Thank you for checking in.

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L. A. “Tony” Kovach is a publisher who has earned multiple awards in history. He and his family live in a manufactured home on private property in Winter Haven, FL. He is the co-founder of Manufactured Home Living News.com (MHLivingNews.com) and Manufactured Home Pro News.com (MHProNews.com), trade publications serving segments of the manufactured home industry. Having worked in several segments of the manufactured home industry for over 3 decades, Kovach is a widely acknowledged and often praised expert on manufactured housing. ###