In the Essay "Despite Negativity, Americans Mixed on Ideal Roles of Gov't" by Frank Newport published by Gallup Inc he writes a passage that says " These attitudes, basically unchanged from a year ago, underscore the complex nature of American's views of government. Americans have strongly negative views of the way the nation is being governed and the Congress. They also, as will be reviewed here, have significant concerns about the power of the federal government, believe that government is doing too much that individuals and business can do, and prefer fewer services and lower taxes. Yet, in a broad sense, Americans are as likely to prefer a more active government as a more limited one.

According to the study they did they gathered this data about whether our government shouldn't be very involved in our everyday lives or whether is should control or be more involved a lot more than it is now. This paragraph is about The different views about the public (citizens) when it comes to the involvement of government. Basically a large amount of the public believes Congress is doing it all wrong. They are worried about the quantity of power the government has. The public wants less taxes so they are willing to stop receiving all the luxury's the government offers in order to have more money at the end of the day and do the job themselves. For the general public a more active government is one that isn't very involved.

I felt this paragraph was important because it is important to find out what the public thinks about government. We the public are suppose to choose our Congress and our president and the population has the right to choose who we think is better for the role of government. But everyone has different views and different agenda's and that influences all of their actions.
I found the last part of the paragraph very interesting because the government does take out a lot of taxes and we don't really know exactly where that money is going. Yes we are told its going to certain places but is that entirely true?