What Americans Want in 2012
Cato Podcast
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🗓️ 18 October 2011
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, October 18th, 2011. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:08.0 | From the Tea Parties to Occupy Wall Street, bailouts are not popular, and freeing up markets in health care are increasingly |
| 0:14.8 | popular. But public opinion can change. Scott Rasmussen at Cato Club 200 discussed how Americans |
| 0:21.0 | feel about taxes, retirement, |
| 0:23.1 | entangling foreign alliances, health care, |
| 0:25.7 | and the election of 2012. |
| 0:28.0 | We now know that the bailout issue has become truly toxic. |
| 0:34.8 | And the reason we know that has nothing to do with polling data, |
| 0:37.8 | nothing to do with any candidates. |
| 0:39.8 | It has to do with a Ford car commercial. |
| 0:43.0 | Has anybody seen this one? |
| 0:45.1 | Okay, Ford has this deal where people come in, |
| 0:47.3 | they bring a car buyer in to a mock press conference |
| 0:50.1 | and they asked the guy, Chris, were you looking to buy American? |
| 0:54.5 | Was it important to you to buy American? |
| 0:56.9 | And his answer was, it was important for me to buy from a company that was not bailed out. |
| 1:03.7 | And he went on to say that being American |
| 1:06.8 | means that you stand up and you win or you lose on your own, |
| 1:11.3 | you don't take those bailouts. Now I know that this was |
| 1:15.4 | all a gimmick and the four just picked one they wanted to show but they would not |
| 1:19.7 | have shown this |
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