Does the U.S. Government trust you?

Question

...in this post 9/11, Patriot Act era?

Answer 1

I doubt it.

Answer 2

It seems that over the past 50+ years the government has shown to the citizens that it does not trust them, and the citizens have shown to the government that it does not trust it. that's old news and every good American Citizen knows not to put complete trust in government and expect none in return.

This certainly isn't a 9/11, Patriot Act thing.

The question is, when dealing with different entities of the government do they respect you as a citizen or do they not respect you. We have a lot of government employees out there who think they are something special and given people a hard time when they are "forced" to deal with the government. I truly dislike dealing with government agencies who have no concept of customer service.

So, the laws, past and present, though in the best of intentions turn out to be a government hack's way to justify acting a fool. Or people who like to use the Government as an instrument of plunder on their neighbor.

So, as I mentioned earlier, we should change that question to respect, not trust.

Answer 3

MORE importantly, do WE trust the government? Time after time, how they are too lax and mishandled the situation and allowed things to happen, we find how they squander our tax monies, hire their cronies at exorbitant costs to the tax payers, (Halliburton is charging our enlisted personnel $45 for a 6-pack of Pepsi) and continue to forge ahead with non-essential projects to enrich their cronies (needless construction projects) while other states are in dire need of help (Louisiana) and the entire world see this waste and hates us for it. Elected officials betray public trust when they engage in all sorts of money-making schemes for themselves through the use of public funds and their cronies, lobbyists and as much as the public hates this and complains, they continue to waste our monies, giving away billions of dollars (about 500 million dollars intended for arms and weapons was stolen by a handful of Iraqi and Afghan officials that left their country with money in tow). Our demands for supervision and accountability are ignored; our demands for an oversight of how our monies are spent is also ignored. Our rights, liberties and freedoms are under threat by those that run the government, those who are puppets of the super rich and powerful, and we stand by picking our noses? Meanwhile, amidst all this waste, our poor, our elderly, retired and disabled are living in substandard housing conditions (while those in key position in foreign countries are enjoying our monies for luxuries and people are still starving and dying of malnutrition and treatable illnesses, diseases and sicknesses) and too often our poor, our elderly and retired and disabled are doing without food in order to buy life-sustain medicines?

Why should we trust elected officials that have consistently hired incompetent, inept and malfeasant nincompoops and cronies, instead of competent, experienced people that know how to get the jobs done? (I seem to remember one head of FEMA... the now-gone Secretary of State...)

WHY should WE trust our elected officials, why should WE trust our government? We elected them to work for us, not for them to subjugate and corral us or herd us like cattle!

Answer 4

they trust the honesty of most people when it does not involve money . but very people are trusted to be smart enough to live on their own without the input from them in the form of laws they create to guide people on the proper way to live. most important is they think that they should be the people to handle most of your money.the only people they are smart enough to handle your money are called politicians.

Answer 5

Absolutely they do.

Since I've never been communicating with international terrorists, nor funding them, the gov't has had no reason to snoop on me. And even if they did, they wouldn't find anything.

Answer 6

the government was orginally built not trusting the people of america.

Answer 7

Yes.

Answer 8

They are watching you all the time through that "eye" on the dollar bills in your pocket.

Answer 9

not sure ? I only know...I do not trust the government

Answer 10

You must live in a fantasy world where we all just get along.

Answer 11

As much as we trust it