The American public’s confidence in the United States government is at an all-time low and œthe lack of confidence is based on the declining position of the US empire,” says Sara Flounders, a US activist in New York.
According to a new Gallup poll, Americans express record-low trust and confidence in the federal government’s ability to handle both international and domestic problems.
Americans’ confidence in the federal government has trended downward throughout the 2000s and has sunk to several new lows since 2010.
A separate survey by the Pew Research Center has found that a majority of Americans believe the government™s policies have not done much or nothing at all to help poor people, while benefiting large corporations and wealthy people.
œThe average person in the US today knows that the government institutions and agencies have nothing to provide them,” said Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center, an activist group that supports anti-imperialist movements and opposes US military interventions.
Flounders criticized US government officials for debating œto slash food stamps” while œat the same time be debating and planning a war.”
œThere are cuts in every program that have to do with poor and working people,” she said. œWorking people [are being] told there™s no money, yet there is endless money for war and that alone creates a crisis.”
œIt™s the banks, the big corporations that everything is done for their benefit and nothing and less and less for the benefit of the average person. This is true regardless of who sits in the presidency. ”
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