Obama Promises To End ‘Deficit of Trust’ Jobs to loom large in president’s first state of the Union address WASHINGTON - Saying he “will not walk away” from Americans struggling during the financial crisis, President Barack Obama will promise in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to wage a battle on “a deficit of trust” in U.S. society that has crippled the government’s ability to address its deficit of dollars. “Deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works ... have been growing for years," the president planned to say, according to excerpts of his remarks the White...