The quote that I chose is from Gallup Politics: "A majority (57%) of Americans believe the federal government today has too much power. Most of the rest say the government has about the right amount of power. Few say the government has too little power. Americans were least likely to be concerned about the government's power in the years immediately after 9/11, but half or more since 2005 have said it has too much power."
I picked this quote from the reading because I though it was interesting to see how American's point of view has changed towards how much power the federal government has today after the 911 incident. This quote states that more Americans feels that the government has too power. Power which has come to a point of being abused.
My point of view on this results from Gallup is that since 911 the U.S has concentrated too much on protecting us as citizens that they have some how gone too far. For example, the government has been abusing our privacy by spying on our phone records and collecting data. Also, another thing that businesses were not happy about was for the government to make it mandatory for businesses to purchase health care insurance for their full-time employees. So I wonder if the system of checks and balances is working as I see all these things that show the federal government's is abusing power and forcing Americans to do things without us having too much of a choice. Sometimes I wonder if we still live in a democratic country or not or if we ever had a democracy.
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