Trust in government is fading away, as is American democracy, according to reports. That worries the right and the left, for different reasons.
Faith in government is weak across the political spectrum, though each side has different reasons. “Like smoke from a cigarette or dreams that you soon forget,” Americans’ faith and trust in government is fading away.” lyrics, from the 1966 Motown release produced by Smokey Robinson and sung by The Temptations, provide apt images for the low confidence Americans have in Washington.Recent reports document just how bad Uncle Sam’s reputation is.
Furthermore, The Partnership for Public Service, a good government organization that advocates against government shutdowns, said shutdown threats, which come with disturbing frequency, decrease confidence in government. It held its firstin September because “low trust in government has serious implications for how the public interacts with our government and government’s ability to solve serious problems,” said Lindsay Laferriere, the Partnership’s trust director.
Most federal employees, Tebeau said, “are citizens just like you and me and they’re doing their job.” Melissa Emrey-Arras, the Government Accountability Office’s director of education, workforce and income security, is this year’s winner of the Sammies’ Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Medal. She said the discrepancy between those
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