http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/americans'-mistrust-of-govt.-is-rational-and-warranted-but-also-dangerous-442780.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,UUP,TBT,TLT,GLD,XLF
"The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative," Winston Churchill once said.
The problem is "we're in the process of exhausting all the alternatives pretty quickly," says William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
A recent CBS/NY Times poll showed only 19% of respondents say they trust the government "to do what is right all or most of the time," while 78% believed the government is run by special interests, not for the benefit of the people.
"iI current levels of trust don't improve, I don't see how Americans can be persuaded to make sacrifices now for a better future,
