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Trust In US Government On Domestic, International Issues At Record Lows
Just a few hours ahead of President Obama's strategy oration, we thought worth noting that Americans' trust in the federal government to handle international problems has fallen to a record-low 43%. According to Gallup, confidence in the government to handle international problems slid 17 percentage points last year, when the Obama administration was planning military action against Syria. Unsurprisingly, Democrats remain the most confident in the government as Republicans' faith has collapsed. But it's not just international, only 40% of Americans have any confidence that government can handle domestic problems - also a record low.
Americans' confidence in the government to handle international problems slid 17 percentage points last year, when the Obama administration was planning military action against Syria. Russia later brokered an agreement to avert that action. Last year's poll marked the first time that fewer than half of Americans trusted the federal government's ability to deal with international threats. With the world stage seemingly more unstable now, the public's trust has dipped an additional six percentage points this year.
Likewise, trust in the government's ability to handle domestic problems dropped slightly this year after a larger decline in 2013. Although the economy has improved, it may be overshadowed by partisan gridlock in Washington, which has led to little formal government action to deal with important domestic challenges facing the United States. Indeed, Americans have consistently mentioned dissatisfaction with government as one of the most important problems facing the country in 2014.
The level of trust in the government to handle both domestic and international matters is nearly half what it was at the high point Gallup measured, shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks. In October 2001, 83% trusted the government's ability to deal with international problems and 77% trusted its ability to handle domestic ones.
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Democrats' trust in the federal government has been far less shaken than that of Republicans and independents in the last two years.
Implications
Gallup has never measured lower levels of trust in the federal government to handle pressing issues than now.
That includes the Watergate era in 1974, when 51% of Americans trusted the government's ability to handle domestic problems and 73% trusted its ability to deal with international problems, and also at the tail end of the Bush administration when his job approval ratings were consistently below 40% and frequently below 30%.
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The key question going forward is whether Americans' trust in the federal government can ever be restored.
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was it about trust or fear?
are they the same thing?
not really.
here we go ....
"We" trusted them after 9/11 and this is how it turned out.
I have a hard time believing these polls anyway, even when they affirm my biases.
Exactly. And the US is about to get suckered by another slickster just like Bush and Clinton tonight. This reeks of something bad happening to us again, and soon to cover up the declining world economy and need to justify a new major world war.
Obama’s False Flag Speech Tonight
I trust the government to fuck me.
And yet 70 some percent think that same government should attack a bunch of hardened liver-eaters with a worn out military full of new recruit faggots. Beware of epic losses ahead.
There was the study done by a psych prof in the 90s about what it takes to be a good president:
To be able to lie and be believed.
Maybe the public is on to them.
If we had actual representation there'd be a "no confidence" vote.
Who can trust government when --->
9/11 FACT: The Pentagon Was Hit By A Cruise Missile From The US Military Arsenal
I predict in 2016 that 'Murica will get suckered by another Bush AND another Clinton. No matter who wins, I'm fucked.
All I can tell you guys is that I spent today with a buncha folks who never, ever talk politics, have always given some deference to the current administration and the topic du jour was His Majesty's Speech Tonight Already Concluded to Lead the country Further Into the Seventh Circle of Hell from which it is Impossible to Extricate our Asses.
I felt like yelling "Vindication!"
It's getting real ugly out there.... people is catchin' on. Big Time
One phrase that sticks with me is Robert Prechter's "Point of Recognition".
He could have just used the ol' "Wile Coyote" moment.
Government wants trust when this went down!
9/11 US Government Criminal Conspiracy: THERE IS NO DEBATE
Yes, the paranoia that everything is rigged, somehow
And the experience of running data for research firms early in my career.
"everything is rigged" is not paranoia,
it is fucking design. design, get it?
a system is designed. design. rigged =
designed. system and function, there
one finds demand and supply, by design.
get it?
Non sequitur....
Do you have an opinion on this guy:
There is a US Holding company that has processed $1.8 Quadrillion in Derivatives. I guess all that is discarded for financial management in the world of the USA.
Cede and Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cede_and_Company
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation - Wikipedia, the free ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation -
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is a US post-trade financial services company providing clearing and settlement services to the financial ...
Greg Morse says V the Guerrilla agrees that DTCC, US Holding Company, not only holds all the real stock certificates in USA and much of the world too... but is behind setting up the BRICS Central Bank.(146 Minutes into Video, Euroclear, Clearstream, Cede & Company, Luxembourg, Russia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmJKrhWucC0
Cede & Company, Holding Company, Depository Trust, not local bank 45 minutes in.
Sole Registered owner of all stocks on wall street
Most powerful member of Federal Reserve owns all US Stocks as the Holding Company.
DTCC, 51 minutes in.
Wall Street makes self developed rules
SSRO, Self Regulating organization, 52:30 minutes.
Golden Rule applies www.saveourfamilyandhome.com -
BRICS & US Dollar Derivative & BRICS Bank 214 Minutes in
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But another thing:
UK Probably has this too, USA has 770 Accounts which are Tax-free Insurance (life) policies which grow Interest near the 5% level according to some links. IRS has no surveillance over these accounts and you can take dividends and withdrawal with no taxes taken out. Might be an Age parameter for withdrawals.
Anyone familiar with these? Probably they would be put into some Derivative scheme and therefore only valid for the life of the Insurance Company providing these (thinking financial crash in USA coming soon).
Supposed to be a secret tool of the rich to avoid taxes and ZIRP on Individual Savings Accounts.
http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/palm-beach-letter/secret-770-account...
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2014/06/26/tax-story-behind-...
http://www.irs.gov/irb/2005-06_IRB/ar12.html (7702(a)(b)(c)(d))
g.morse is pointing to the real structure
of the oligarchic and illigarchic system of
deception, imo.
deal with the words bro.
the "federal government" has submitted
to the "federal reserve" so,
.
you, as an individual have arrived
under
multiple forces grinding
on your pay day
for some
piece of the action
on your
back and future
as you crawl on
your belly just to
keep from digging
refilled holes
there , in the
direction of china while the
skies are carved up
with some lines of aluminum
all to press the atmosphere
from, drying up but you don't
mind the issue cause you
lost the thread of geo po-
litical complex as it rains down on
your place of
business and your lost
and stolen cargo
ridding on the
hyper stolen train
of political delusion
calming down your brain.
.
fallen angels, gifting
parting words there is no
sentimental wording given or
parting, fresh, grave
word.
with no words .
.
the lost generation
the lost generation
cursed with no words
.
one might rightly speak or own
just physical need and body
left on the road.
left on the road.
.
refugees from houses in default
.
true americans destined to become
cannon fodder for the war to increase
terror.
.
and you can buy the video game version
and share it among your pre-preschoolers
and call it edutainment.
.
perhaps booby will become a world class
sniper with his own t.v. show?
may you live in interesting times...
chinese curse
bitchez!
We live in interesting times in part due to the Chinese, so this is very apropos. How much of the sovereign debt does China hold again? Yeah. How much of our military secrets did they steal again? Yeah. How much of a trade deficit are we running with them again? Yeah.
In conclusion, fuck China.
And they're right not to trust the government. It's run by a gang of really evil people who want to rob and murder them.
+1
Nice and succinct.
And the enforcement arm wants to imprison us all in Camp FEMA where they can beat our wives, eat our babies, and assrape us all. 'Murica: run by smart and evil, enforced by witless and evil.
"Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his department will be issuing new guidance to retailers this week giving them pointers on how to spot potential terrorists among their customers by looking at what they’re buying."
Maybe Johnson can start identifying terrorists by naming the persons responsible for having NATO security training exercises take place on 9/11/2001, exercises whose game plan was an attack by terrorists using hijacked jets. If not for a Boston air traffic controller who bypassed his supervisors to contact the Air Force directly, that last hijacked plane that was shot down over Ohio by the Air National Guard (the pilot who shot it down dying soon after of a heart attack) would have demolished the Capitol building. Next, who set up the security training exercise at the Boston Marathon, sending in undercover security guards with black backpacks similar to the Tsarnaev backpacks. Don't ask the two former NAVY seals who were stationed as guards on the building roof right by the finish line. Both were murdered months later on the Maersk Alabama, given lethal doses of narcotics by visitors who never logged in.
Johnson's job is not spotting terrorists, it is covering up and protecting FBI and CIA agents who have hired terrorists to kill Americans by the thousand.
Well, shit. There goes my plans to buy a pressure cooker from Chinamart. Guess I'll have to get one at a yard sale. Unless of course they send the terrrrrisss flyers out to all the yard sale proprietors. Then I'm truly fucked.
The government has a similar chart reflecting its trust in citizens. It's a solid line running along the zero axis, and about 100 basis points below the fear line.
Sure, I trust the guv!
To steal, and to threaten, and to use violence.
I trust the gubmint...to be reading this message in real time as I type it. To the boy beating off to midget tranny porn that is reading my message: I hope you catch syphilis and die.
Still too high.
I cant believe its not in the 20's or lower. Look at congressional approval
I would trust turtle man before these criminals
Obama to speak from teleprompter to America, live tonight at 8:45pm EDT.
...take# 2,621...
It's going lower....a lot lower.
That's what she lamented.
rubber biscuit ?
Team .Gov USA ! Exceptional at winning the race to the bottom...
Note that the highest level of trust was in the wake of 9/11. Kinda begs the question of how best to increase the level of trust in the government.
Hard to trust when you are perpetually lied to and treated like a mushroom (kept in the dark and fed bullshit).
Forward Communists ! On to no toilet paper ! We will not be denied our civil right to use our hands !
Trust is a vice of the lazy. They'll trust because they crave a leader.
The average citizen (think Walmart customers) are as stupid as stupid gets. Makes it easy for the Federal Gov't to BS them.
The central banks are moving into negative deposit rates and yields, and it looks like several sovereign governments are headed in that direction as well.
ZERO ZERO ZERO Credibility....nothing they say, nothing,,,,,zero!!!! Do I make myself clear????
"my fellow americans (giggle) , to protect the nation we must suspend for a period of time, all freedoms, until every terrorist is found and brought (he heee) to justice or droned to submission." Fema will now activate the state of emergency, with support of Homeland security. All fire arms will be turned in to appropirate authority.
good night and god bless America" ...
I can't believe there are that many fools who actually believe those idiots in their ivory towers.
Kind of difficult to have trust in something that doesn't exist eh?
For the LAST FUCKING TIME, its not a Government, only in name it is. It's a Criminal UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. headed by a Psycopath CEO (President) who arms, funds & trains terror organizations around the world with the help of a Criminal Psycpath Board Of Directors AKA (CONgress).
http://www.bollyn.com/#article_14811
http://www.bollyn.com/#article_14811
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double no shit Sherlock.
I'd like to know who the hell the 40%+ are that trust the government? How can you trust these asshats to do anything right? Aside from the military, which truth be told if politicians would get the fuck out of the way and let them kill and break things, tell me anything they do right? Oh wait......does this make me racist?
www.traderzoo.mobi
Let's take a real poll with real men right now.
Upvote if you think the gubmint is a ginormous prevaricating sack of gorilla feces.
Downvote if you think they're from the government and they're here to help.
I'll just leave this here.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmHz6HWhOuI
Watch them squirm.....
Shitbag can't even answer the question....
Vegas: "I'd like to know who the hell the 40%+ are that trust the government?"
Gov workers?
EBT card holders?
That would be over 40% -
ZERO CONFIDENCE!!!! And 100% certain that I'm being conned!