Yesterday, we posted that, according to Gallup, a majority of Americans say the government is doing too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses.
Wonder why?
Well, another Gallup survey highlights the underlying reason why Americans want the Federal government to do less.
Bottom line: Americans do not think that most government agencies are doing a particularly good job … and. across the board, they think that the agencies’ performance is weakening,
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Takeaways
Based on people rating agencies’ performance positively, i.e. as doing an excellent of good job…
> Only NASA is sustaining its rating … and that agency has outsourced much of its work to Bezos and Musk
> The performance ratings of ALL other agencies dropped between 2020 and 2021
> Only 3 agencies — NASA, USPS and the Secret Service — now get majority positive ratings.
> Both the USPS and Secret Service ratings dropped by double digits … 17 and 14 percentage points, respectively.
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Healthcare Agencies
> The CDC had the biggest drop … 24 percentage points … from 64% to a 40% rating the agency’s performance as excellent or good.
> Comparably, the FDA and VA are down to 40% and 36% respectively.
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Security & Law Enforcement
> In 2020: the FBI, DHS and CIA all had a majority rating their performance as excellent or good.
> But, all 3 of those agencies dropped by double digits between 2020 and 2021 … the CIA dropped 19 points (from 60% to 41%) … the FBI dropped 13 points (from 57% to 44%) … and DHS dropped 13 points (from 55% to 42%)
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Defense & State Depts.
> Neither Defense nor State were rated in 2020
> in 2021, the Defense Dept. performance was rated positively by 46%
> In 2021, the State Dept. rating was rated excellent of good by only 32% … putting the State Dept. last among the 15 key Federal agencies.
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Bottom Line
As the WSJ would say:
“If President Biden wants to understand why his $3.5 trillion entitlement spending plan is stalled in Congress, he might look at the new polls from Gallup.”
Seriously, what rational person would give a gang that can’t shoot straight a virtual blank check ($3.5 trillion) … and expect much good to happen.
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