Americans Have Low Confidence in Government, Institutions

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"Americans' confidence in most major U.S. institutions remains below the historical average for each one," a Gallup spokesman said in a news release. Only the military, in which 72 percent of Americans express confidence, up from a historical average of 68 percent, and small business, with 67 percent confidence, up from 63, are currently rated higher than their historical norms. This is based on the percentage expressing "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in these institutions, the Gallup spokesman said.
Only 8 percent have confidence in Congress, down by 16 points from a long-term average of 24 percent – the lowest of all institutions rated. The rating is about the same as last year's 7 percent, the lowest Gallup has ever measured for any institution.
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The Gallup spokesman added: "From a broad perspective, Americans' confidence in all institutions over the last two years has been the lowest since Gallup began systematic updates of a larger set of institutions in 1993."

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ken-walshs-washington/2015/06/17/americans-have-lost-confidence-in-everything

Americans Have Lost Confidence ... in Everything
It's not just Congress and the economy that have Americans concerned these days.
June 17, 2015 | 7:20 a.m. EDT
By Kenneth T. Walsh

MIT Professor Gruber's Governmental Process

Harvard University Professors Indicate Awareness

Has the silence ended? Government professor Beth Ann Simmons, professor of economics Jeffrey Zabel and Medical School professor Sharon-Lise T. Normand indicate an awareness of government "dysfunctionality." Really? In recent trials FBI informants admitted or were charged with 60 homicides over 30 years. Was that three decades of good government? When the same Boston FBI office framed four white men for homicide, was that best practices? While the Cambridge City Council, while admiring all things Harvard, ignores laws, rules and the Constitution every week, is that what a functioning lawful government looks like? The great black leader from Harvard Law School violated US laws and the Constitution acting contrary to US codes. Is that what good leadership is? Are the prominent professors becoming vocal due to politics, or self interest? Why is FBI corruption, mass murder and abuse of process not of concern to these "outraged" academics?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/2/fiscal-crisis-professors-disfunctional/#

Harvard Professors Decry ‘Dysfunctionality’ Surrounding Government Shutdown
By Mariel A. Klein , CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
October 2, 2013

Obama's Sleazy Desperate Campaign

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In this campaign, Obama has steadily diminished both himself and the office he holds. Remarkable what a fear of defeat and a loss of power can do to a man.

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/09/the-cost-of-winning-ugly/

THE COST OF WINNING UGLY
By: Patrick J. Buchanan
8/9/2012 07:11 AM
Human Events

Obama Is What He Condemned


"Yet there was Obama, who promised to change the culture of Washington, heralding the sleazy outcome. How fitting that the end of his first year also marks the end of any pretense he is a reformer.

He is now the very opposite of what he promised."
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"Obama's endorsement covers the $100 million deal to pay the full cost of Medicaid expansion in Nebraska, getting $100 million for a hospital in Connecticut, exempting seniors in Florida from benefit cuts, and replacing a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic-surgery procedures with a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning."
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So it is in America at Christmas, circa 2009. Back to the drawing board we go, still searching for honest government.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/mr_smith_your_country_needs_you_BuIJwDrBgECBvGLB3EanyN

'Mr. Smith,' your country needs you
Michael Goodwin
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:38 AM, December 25, 2009
Posted: 4:01 AM, December 23, 2009