The Harris Poll first asked these questions thirty-two years ago, in 1980, towards the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency. At that time substantially more people wanted to cut all these areas of government spending than do so today. For example 23% wanted to cut Social Security payments (compared to 12% now), 65% wanted to cut spending on food stamps (compared to 43% now), and 59% wanted to cut Federal highway financing (compared to 25% now). In spite of the current concern about the size of the budget deficit, far fewer people today want to cut specific government programs. Harris Interactive
What else happened between 1976 and 2012? Both California and Texas lost another half of their voting rights in the Senate. Both stated doubled population and cut in halfm, again, their political power in the DC Senate. About 75 million folks, or 1/4 of the population, mostly concentrated in Florida, Texas and California are Senate colonies. These people don't count, literally, their counting of issues is different.
The main desire of the colonialists is for the Senate to quit disturbing the system, they pay 1/5 the attention to the correct semantics on these polls. The polls need to be weighted by political power. There is a precedent for this, Benign Neglect by England toward its colonies. Americans were happy colonialists until the Colonizer shows up, then they have the No Taxation without Representation thing going on.
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