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Trust in Government is Pathological
American Thinker ^ | October 7, 2014 | Christopher Chantrill

Posted on 10/07/2014 11:14:47 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic

This last weekend the Sunday shows had a “trust in government” theme. Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press" asked Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer why the government of the email-losing IRS, of no strategy on ISIS, of border mayhem could be trusted on Ebola.

On Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace threw a slow hanging pitch to George Will so he could hit it out of the ball park. Said Wallace:

[W]ith growing concerns over Ebola, the Secret Service and the VA and IRS scandals, can we trust the federal government to do its job?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: government; trust

1 posted on 10/07/2014 11:14:47 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
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To: right-wing agnostic

I love my Country. Its my government that I don’t trust.


2 posted on 10/07/2014 11:18:29 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: right-wing agnostic

I haven’t trusted the federal government, since the day that my V.A. house loan in progress acquired ‘points’, it did not have previously, which happened to be the same darn day that the federal government announced it was giving Vietnamese boat people FREE LOANS!!!


3 posted on 10/07/2014 11:19:21 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: right-wing agnostic

The government is all about force, violence, control and theft. What’s not to trust?!


4 posted on 10/07/2014 11:21:57 AM PDT by all the best
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With growing concerns over Ebola, the Secret Service and the VA and IRS scandals, can we trust the federal government to do its job?

Only if you are bat-shiit crazy. Under Obama, the Federal Government has turned into the citizen's worst enemy and nightmare!!!

5 posted on 10/07/2014 11:21:58 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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Any government will, sooner or later, abuse any power it has been allowed to hold.

This is all you need to know about government!

6 posted on 10/07/2014 11:25:15 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: right-wing agnostic

If someone can introduce me to this person named “government” so I can have a discussion with them, I will let you know if I trust them.


7 posted on 10/07/2014 11:26:08 AM PDT by Williams
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To: Responsibility2nd

Anybody who trusts government is intellectually lazy and has no idea of the value of freedom, or how fragile it is.


8 posted on 10/07/2014 11:26:50 AM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: right-wing agnostic

Excellent article!


9 posted on 10/07/2014 11:29:42 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

country and govt are not the same, yes.

patriots support their country all the time, and their governments, when they deserve it.


10 posted on 10/07/2014 11:41:58 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Our government is coercive and it’s time for that to change. Our leaders have forgotten what they are supposed to be doing in our behalf... and AT OUR EXPENSE


11 posted on 10/07/2014 11:45:42 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Loving the father-land is honor of elders. Trusting government is the denial of the fall and depravity of men.


12 posted on 10/07/2014 11:50:18 AM PDT by DaveyB ("When injustice becomes the law; rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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I don’t trust anyone who steals money from me and wants to take away my firearms. They don’t sound like “the good guys” to me.


13 posted on 10/07/2014 11:56:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Got Ebola? Come to America!)
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To: DaveyB

it’s a bipolar lib condition. they worship govt when they run it, at the same time they know how corrupt and wicked people are b/c they hate people and don’t trust them to make the smallest personal decisions. two conflicting views yet they hold both at the same time.

it boils down to their perpetual state of adolescence and god-complexes.


14 posted on 10/07/2014 11:59:17 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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They also claim that our socialists hate white racists when Hitler was a Socialist.


15 posted on 10/07/2014 2:46:08 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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