Voters in Massachusetts, mirroring attitudes of millions of Americans across the country, rejected the ill-conceived $900 billion government takeover of the nation’s healthcare sector, the increasingly imperial character of the political ruling class, the rampant secrecy and unaccountability which has come to characterize congressional legislative activities, explosive wasteful spending, and the massive debt burden being imposed upon the next generation.

“In his Inaugural address one year ago, President Obama claimed stated that ‘The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.’  He never had a chance to answer that question, because he has made the government so large and so intrusive that a plurality of Americans believes the government is doing too many things, according to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll,” said CCAGW President Tom Schatz.  “Only 35 percent are confident that the President has the right set of policies and priorities.  This is not a surprise, because the President and Congress have run wild during the last year, establishing a record deficit and adding trillions to a fast-growing national debt; taken over large segments of the economy; spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a stimulus plan that has stimulated anger and resentment, but not jobs; wasted time on a healthcare bill that gets more unpopular each day; and used the federal budget as tool to reward friends and allies.  Taxpayers no longer accept the premise that the way to solve every problem is to demonize the appropriate group and throw money that we are borrowing from our children and grandchildren to solve nonexistent problems, while ignoring other critical issues like a 10 percent unemployment rate, an onerous regulatory burden on small businesses, and the fiscal plight of taxpayers.  Most of all, Americans do not want the President and Congress telling them what to do or what to think, especially that the healthcare plan will be good for the country whether they like it or not.”

“Scott Brown’s victory is welcome news.  It may begin to turn the tide of wasteful spending and burgeoning government.  If Congress and the President dismiss or minimize the results of the election in Massachusetts and persist in their current fiscal follies, they do so at their considerable peril.  The taxpayers have spoken, and their voices will continue to resonate through November,” concluded Schatz.

CCAGW is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.

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