Just what our politicians count on....

The following is from the Rasmussen Reports, a national polling organization:
Given four choices as to the size of the federal budget presented by the President last week, 39% of American voters did not offer any answer, 36% guessed wrong, and just 24% knew the answer--$3.1 trillion dollars.
Nineteen percent (19%) said the budget presented totaled $301 trillion annually while 10% thought the proper answer was $301 billion. Seven percent (7%) thought it was only $3.1 billion.
Thirty-four percent (34%) of men knew the proper answer along with 15% of women. Voters under 30 and over 65 were less likely to know the proper answer than those between 30 and 64.

75% of those polled had no idea about the size of the budget....that's exactly what our politicians count on. We don't care about the size of the budget, the tax cuts for the wealthy, the program cuts for the poor and elderly....just send us our economic stimulus checks and we'll be happy! I think that if people really knew what our government was up to we may have another tea party.