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Should I Trust The Government?
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
Only the people of Japan and Spain trust their government less than the people of the U.S. trust our government.
80 percent of people surveyed in 27 markets across the globe distrust their governments, businesses or both, according to Edelman’s 2015 Trust Barometer. Looking at several key countries in the survey, distrust is most rampant in Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.
Falling trust levels for 2015 come as little surprise given last year’s events. 2014 saw the largest outbreak of Ebola in history, civil war in Ukraine and two mysterious disasters for Malaysia Airlines, amongst others. Trust is higher in developing nations including China and India where 82 percent of respondents in both nations trust their governments.
In Russia, 54 percent of people trust their government compared to 45 percent who trust the business sector. In the United States, however, business comes before government for trust. 60 percent of Americans trust business compared to just 41 percent who trust the government. In countries badly affected by the financial crisis like Spain, it comes as no surprise that trust levels in the government are extremely low – just 26 percent. People are more optimistic about business and it’s trusted by 43 percent of people.
The confluence of government and business has created a corporate fascist surveillance state. Trust in government, politicians, bankers, and the media is plummeting.
This will drive the next phase of this Fourth Turning.
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Of course I distrust liars and thieies. Isn't this what comprises our gov't?
I just envisioned Hitlery carrying the football. OMG, we are doomed.
It really doesn't matter if they distrust government. The critical point is that they will always still want it.
Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother do you think they'll like the song?
Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Oooh, ahh
Mother should I build the wall?
Mother should I run for President?
Mother should I trust the government?
Mother will they put me in the firing line?
Oooh ahh,
Is it just a waste of time?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_yRvxy9HVs
"I USED TO TRUST THE MEDIA TO TELL ME TRUTH"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdOsL4Xe7Q
I know I am but a plebe and am not to be trusted with the power of linkage...
You ZeroHeads think you have a new way of looking at things....
Class of 82...er 83 cause I got busted bitches!
We surveyed some folks.....
Hey - why all the doom and gloom?
We're kicking Spain's ass!
If the Spaniards distrust their government so much, why do they keep voting for more of the same?
Idiocracy.
If I'm reading the message correctly here the smarter the people the less they trust government.
You just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong!
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It really doesn't matter if they distrust government. The critical point is that they will always still want it.
Hate getting into semantics, but "the" government is not the rizzel-drizzel dizzy lizzies on CSPAN. The Constitution is the organizing principal, the law, and it states unequivocally that "we the people" are the government. The K-Street Kiddie Brothel chimps limp-wristing under the CSPAN glitter ball and shouting "8 inches or less" in their Joan Crawford Fuck Me Quick Pumps, are not the government, they are our employees (period), and by no stretch should we confuse or misnomer them there CSPAN dweebs as "the" government, or, for that matter, as anything the people want.
I think the survey used for the chart did not account for the "I need to appear conforming compliant to anybody I speak to, especially someone who asks about my trust in the government."
Instead the survey should have asked, "Do you believe in the rule of law?", followed up with, "Are your elected employees acting lawfully?" It is not a matter of trust. It is a matter of adhering to the rule of law"
Hate to upset you, but nobody has a right to form a government and force all others to be slaves to it. That concept is wired into your head like the ant colony is wired into the heads of ants. Please stop being an animal and become human.
It used to be the naked force of red in tooth and claw, then it morphed into divine right of kings, and now it's a constitution, voting, and of the dupes for the dupes by the dupes.
IT IS ALL THE SAME BULLSHIT! A no longer useful survival behavior from the animal world that caused the deaths of 400 million people in the 20th century.
Any group of assholes has the right to form a government. We killed a lot of native Americans, stole their land, we killed a lot of prople. But that is because of the lawless relation of so called elected public service employees.
We have an oblogation to fix it, but were to busy confusing faces on CSPAN and institutions of government with what only you and I and all the rest of the a-wipes calling themselves Amere: THE GOVERNMENT. You think the president is the government? You think the house or senate are the government? Do you think that is air your breathing? In a place like this? We are the government. The only government. Voting is a waste of time. Push a meaningless button and leave the poll without a receipt that includes our ballot choices? Perhaps more of us than we'd care to admit, may spend more time than we should auto-tugging to the fantasy pixel stream emendating from some really cool looking prom queen handheld machine?
Read some basic background.
Start with General Smedley Butler (2 time Congressionional Medal If honoe), War Is A Racket (teaser below):
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
For an understanding of the FED, IRS, the middle east, WWI and WW2, read a 1961 speech by Benjamin Freedman titled, "A Warning" (teaser below).
Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to hear a very frightening speech. This speech is an explanation of the plans now being laid to throw the United States into a third world war.
Our obligation to correct the corruption and immorality in OUR temples of government is laid out in simple terms in our, as opposed to confusing an "institution", like the senate or house or executive and judicial, as "the government", (which is domain of the American people,. Take a quick look at the "Declaration of Independence" (teaser below):
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
It's not about making everybody some apocalyptic macho Mad Max American blasting and burning their way to the restoration of the rule of law. We don't need that. Why burn our own house down when their are still other avenues to consider? They're so outnumbered, a collective sneeze would blow em to kingdom come
And it is not about survival. It is about how to bring about change without burning down our assets (all them buildings in DC - given all the QE and bailouts, we probably own the entire financial district in DC an other places - great for re-tasking as public banking infrastructure - in fact we own every tank, carrier helicopter, aircraft and all the guns in DHA and our uniformed services). Rivers of blood in the streets. Who want's that shit. Bitching `bout how everybody has lost their balls ain't gonna make it better. the are over 300 Million of us and less than a million of them. Whose got the power baby. The clowns the Diebold selects for CSPAN talkathons are scared shitless. All we have to do is make sure, in no uncertain terms, that we know we can smush em like gnat nots in a nano moment, and those lost corrupt souls, changing money on the steps of our temples of government, and offer a path that does not include to having their skulls, or their familys' skulls bashed by some nothing left to loose American bad ass. We're natural born killers. We start by formalizing a set of terms for their surrender. We give them a chance to do the right thing and avoid the humiliation Mussolini suffered during his last moment in the world.
BS.
Rights are made up by someone or some group to justify their actions.
Gubmint treats US born tax paying US citizenslike criminals, takes away more and more of our money directly and indirectly as well as more and more of freedoms while letting illegal aliens flood across the U.S. southetn border to give yhem all kinds of free shit at yhe same time enriching the elected ruling political elite turds and their crony .1% uber wealthy.
Is that really a question? Hell no. Fuckers!
NO!!!!!!
Says I, John or Jane Doe, who spoofed his or her IP address before posting this answer...
A business will do what it can to make money.
A government will do what it can to maintain the power tax at gun point.
General rule of thumb, if someone is pointing a gun at you, its because they can't be trusted and they have a vested interest in deceiving you.
So, when there is no government, and nobody with gold wants to buy what you're selling, what will you do then?
You die
As millions of parasites who should never have been born in the first place were it not for the state will do soon after the reset
I think you're being pessimistic. A post-fascist economy will prosper and demand for skills and labor will quickly outstrip supply, once the organizers are free from regulatory burdens and market shut-out.
Can't I have both?
The mass parasite die off followed by a reborn free market
You probably can't but you grand children may benefit.
Our current situation can sustain longer than our short lifetimes.
Parasites have feelings too,
You just described a free market.
I know, its quite a foreign concept, because we have never seen it before.
And the answer to your question :
Change what you are doing or you go extinct.
If no one wants what you are selling, stop selling it and sell something they do want.
Obviously, my point has not come across. If gold is the only currency (because there is no government), the global economy collapses because there is no money. Global GDP immediately contracts by, what, 80% or so? Everyone posting on this site will, first of all, no longer do so because the internet will shut down, and second of all, starve to death. Oh, and Jamie Dimon gets all your stuff.
41% of people are morons
Way too low.
Hope and change...and let's not forget transparency. What a fucking lying scumbag...and the same for the rest of his team.
Ninety-eight percent aren't human.
They have the behaviors of animals, not humans.
Don't blame me I voted for Kodos.
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works more better.
http://zonbi-ant.deviantart.com/art/I-voted-for-Kodos-45248286
Just a cursory look at the data seems to back you up.
Look at China and India, especially India. Both of those are role models for high corruption and their citizens know it....
More is going on here...
Not arguing with the point, but the author failed in delivering it.
Perhaps we should forget about our values, stop fighting the inevitable, and instead direct all our efforts to making sure that a very specific 41% of the US population is marched off to death camps as soon as possible.
The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can rebuild.
#!$% ... it must easy being them.
How can one possibly vote for the same person over and over again yet claim they don't trust the government? The government has consistently though out history seen to its own interests through brute force or coercion. No surprises. The ignorance,mental laziness and timidity of people today is the real threat.
Miffed
Well, I had this theory. Being scientifically inclined and all...
I thought Obama and Bush were not the same person, over and over.
Turns out my theory was wrong.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos..
And, let's see ... we are now in the 9th term of Reagan.
If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.
Basically the same way an ant always supports its own ant colony.
Resistance is futile.
I'm glad the subject of Ebola was brought up.
What happened to it? Did it just go away? Was everyone cured or is everyone dead?
WHERE the HELL IS EBOLA DAMMIT!
Like Fukushima, it is out of the news cycle. Can't be important, since it's more than 36 hours old.
Nevermind that it's still running out-of-control in West Africa.
Nevermind that it has been spewing extinction-level quantities of radwaste into the Pacific for thee and a half years.
None of those things are important.
Now what did you think of the halftime show?
This is very optimistic news. When the shit hits the finally fan we won't likely be counting on our dear leaders for help. Finally a sliver of hope for the USA.
Should anyone trust the government?
Should anyone believe in unicorns?
To quote Mr. Carlin..
They don't give a fuck about you.
They try and fail in my view.
"Can't have a gold standard without a Government."
I think the Pentagon is a fine developmental piece of real estate...never saw a need for it after the War and still wonder why it is even occupied.
What even happens there?
I've been in the private sector and the public sector and in my view the private sector is basically a bunch of war criminals.
Why Government ever cozied up to the Banks and vice versa is beyond me.
I'm sure its all legal and on the up and up of course...
It has been common knowledge for eons you can't trust. There is a certain degree of trust we need to operate, for example a child trusts his or her parents to feed them, when we go to a doctor we like to think we can trust the competence of the doctor and his or her staff, but not always.
Government is not to be trusted. Much of business, big banks, Microsoft, Google and the rest really cannot be trusted at all as they have these big incomes and other things they have to meet plus they like the power. Every reason in hell to snow the little fella if they can get away with it.
Trust those pill-dispensers at your own peril. They too, are filled with false belief-systems.
Mother should I trust the government?
Mother will they put me in the firing line?
Oooh ahh,
Is it just a waste of time?
I have 100% trust in my government....
When it comes to doing the wrong thing........
Trust that it will do harm.
Government is incapable of stopping wrongdoing and innately undermines all actions that produce good.
Great Question... Now read:
How Wall Street, In Broad Daylight, Took Over The US Government
Gas can Rage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg6bBfMKu0E
As much as I trust the global warming numbers.
WHat did they do to 60 years of data?
There is truth in power, and there is excellence in speaking your truth to power. Here is something every crew member MUST now hear and see. It is the most concise truth of power ever spoken.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8DkeabDKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsU-2zJyNsY
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm
Many of those who don't trust the government believe that if their type of government was in power, things would be better. Rather than identifying the underlying problem and seeking to decimate the apparatus of coercion and compulsion, they promote their team as the answer. For evidence, look no farther than the two-headed one-party system in the U.S. and its inteminable charade which has presided over the steady expansion of state powers into almost every aspect of human affairs.
Spot on Cunny.
No matter who is in power, I do no trust them. ROFLMAO not going to happen. Our party system is now called the Hydra! Currently none of these politicians will do anything to change the system or for that matter the states governors.
The constitution is dead and buried long ago. The oligarchs are in charge and we are now a fascist country.
We have a Constitution? oh, you mean that floormat for sociopaths.
Freedom from government is a fantasy. There always has been government, and there always will be government. It's human nature.
To decimate the apparatus of coercion and compulsion is not to destroy the apparatus of coercion and compulsion. Decimate means to reduce to one-tenth. Don't assume that I am a proponent of anarchy, fucker.
So you only want to reduce government by 10%. How odd.
"reduce to one-tenth"
I assume you didn't do well in remedial reading.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decimate?s=t
Other than that you're right on, brother.
Well fuck me!
Can we have a century of decimations?
yrbmegr, feel free to kick me in the nuts.
I'll just go back to my first comment.
I stand corrected, maybe. In any event, you want to reduce government by 90%. How odd.
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Anarchy is but self-government, and is the only political synonym for peace.
No government
No wars
I recall during one of the 1992 Presidential debates when an effeminate hippie asked something ridiculous like, "How will you develop your role to be our father?" Bush stumbled and was clearly caught off guard, while Clinton gave some canned non-answer. But I remember finding the question itself disturbing, since it demonstrated among some the expectation that the state's role was as a substitute family, with the authority figure or father (Fuhrer) at the top. Sadly, but not surprisingly, this sentiment has waxed over the past 20+ years.
[If anyone knows of a link to that "debate", I'd appreciate it.]
Yep, you are exactly right on that. The notion held by many people that voting in the other party will magically solve the crises of government caused by the incumbent party is to be in denial.
Sooner or later, people need to realise that the only solution to government is to have less of it, much less. Anything else is to ignore the elephant in the room; it's the political equivalent of kicking the can down the road. That simply leads to bigger problems later on.
There may be (statistical) distrust, the people of Spain and Japan would stand up and fight to die for their countries anyway - no doubt about that.
Anyone who is waiting for a revolution is a dreamer. The people will do whatever the government wants them to. It doesn't matter if there is democracy, videocracy or dictatorship.
What a great Pink Foyd song...
Upped you for the nice handle.
Government is the last bubble.
as usual, that chinese data sounds like bull shit ...
Dont worry they are 100% accurate in fact the chinese government wlaked around with the stat people to "assist" them in getting those numbers. the stat people were impressed on how much the people loved the government
We are the stupidest people on the planet. We don't trust our government yet still elect (with great margins) the corrupt, pervert zio-whores who the elites give us as choices. The looting of AmeriKa has been like taking candy from a baby. AmeriKa is a bunch of pussies (other than about 10%) When the time comes to globalize and conclude the final subjugation of this ignorant, corrupted people -the elites fully expect it to be a walk in the park- I sure hope they are wrong.
No! This is THE government of the people, for the people, and by the people. If that wasn't correct, what exactly would the people do about it?
No! The is a Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. "Posing" as functional Govenment of the people, for the people & by the people.
Once this conceptual FACT is realized by the masses & CONSENT stopped via by Slilence, Taxes or Contracting / being an accessory to the Criminal Fraud this will end. Not sooner.
The Beast must be staved. Pack a Gun & Pay NO Tax.
Well, I'm sure you can imagine how much I trust Edelman's thingamajig.
sarc on: So if I understand the article right, we have Matthew C. Perry, driving the Maine, as part of the Spanish armada, against the divine wind, to Japan with gold as ballast, and we end up here with Bush III v. Hillary II in 2016?
Viva all democratic republics! Viva the leader of the free world!
say what? What's the point?
this space reserved for legit down votes and upvotes against the javascript police.
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Trust is the opiate of the sheeple.
I will bet BOTH of Jennifer Lawrence's perky melons that the 41% of jagoffs who trust the government are the same 41% that approve of Obama.
I lost my concentration after "perky melons" . . +1 anyway.
Most likely the 41% didn't understand the question, as usual. What most of them heard when asked the question was probably along the lines of, "Do you want fries with that?"
"Should I trust the government?" Sure, just ask an Indian.
Ask Smedley Butler.
Just looking back at the 20th. Century with trillions and trillions of production stolen, billions molested and harmed, and over a quarter billion murdered by governmnet, I'd say that I'm going with no.
But then that's me. Or maybe it was all just dream that I had while I was in the shower.
The banksters need to repay us.
That's horseshit. Russian don't believe there government, haven't for generations. Oooops, sorry pro-Russian website.
Trust yourself, not even the "best" collective ideal like "representative" government.
Quote from "Our Enemy, The State:"
Republicanism permits the individual to persuade himself that the State is his creation, that State action is his action, that when it expresses itself it expresses him, and when it is glorified he is glorified. The republican State encourages this persuasion with all its power, aware that it is the most efficient instrument for enhancing its own prestige. Lincoln’s phrase, “of the people, by the people, for the people” was probably the most effective single stroke of propaganda ever made in behalf of republican State prestige.
Thus the individual’s sense of his own importance inclines him strongly to resent the suggestion that the State is by nature anti-individual [replaced anti-social]. He looks on its failures and misfeasances with somewhat the eye of a parent, giving it the benefit of a special code of ethics. Moreover, he has always the expectation that the State will learn by its mistakes, and do better. ... admitting... that wherever the State is, there is villainy – he sees no reason why, with an increase of experience and responsibility, the State should not improve.
Something like this appears to be the basic assumption of collectivism.
Should I Trust The Government?
Not even NO, but FUCK NO!!!!!!!!!!
Self government means citizens are the government. According to the constitiution ordinary people have authority over government. Citizens distrust themselves and that makes sense. Not once since 1776 have Americans reined in governmet. No trust is warranted.
Common Sense Economics http://quillian.net/blog/
I don't trust ANYONE!
Especially yourself.
All men are liars.
And all women.
Or you.
Governments are responsible for wars, starvation and billions of murders. i trust they will keep killing.
Even the Russians trust their government more than Americans do, I wonder what all the American government has been up to to earn those low trust numbers.
I do buy that. Germans do trust their government much more then "any" business. Maybe with some exceptions, which do change over time.
trust in my US government is a given.
anyone who doesn't should leave, or deserves to be SWATed.
business only wants to rip off people and should never be trusted, but should be vigorously regulated.
governement is the only entity that has my best interest in mind.
peace and stability are only possible through government.
Great cynism.