Ron Johnson: ‘Restoring faith in government’ is the ‘wrong solution’ [View all]
Source: Raw Story
Tea party-backed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Thursday told a conservative conference in Washington, D.C. that “restoring faith in government” was the “wrong solution” and that lawmakers should instead be encouraging “distrust.”
Speaking to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference, Johnson said that too many Americans had forgotten the “foundational premise of this nation,” that the Founding Fathers understood government was “something to fear.”
“Americans are willingly trading their freedom and ours for the false sense, for the false promise of economic security,” he opined.
Johnson asserted that congressional approval ratings of 9 percent were “too high.”
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