Republicans love to make up fake crises. Here are five of the biggest | Robert Reich

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Lately, rising deficits have been driven by social security and Medicare (which is to be expected, as boomers retire).
50% : They've also been driven by defense spending.
43% : In the fight over raising the debt ceiling, Kevin McCarthy's House Republicans added work requirements to food stamps and welfare, arguing that too many "couch potatoes" collect government benefits.
34% : The term gained popularity at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, when many Americans - including white Americans who were seeing the extent of the problem for the first time - awoke to the reality of police brutality against the Black community.

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