America's love/hate affair with government.

While searching for an article relevant to government and myself, I came upon an interesting article on CNN calling out America’s distrustful relationship with government. In, “America’s Love/hate affair with government” by Gloria Borger, it gives the latest CNN/ORC poll of the public’s trust in the federal government. Only 15% of Americans believe that the government of today can solve our problems. Borger’s explains that the reason for this number is due to Obama’s way of handling our economic stimulus, and health care reform. On a larger perspective, one too large for Obama to handle and provide sufficient results, suggest that people are tired of hearing the bickering between both sides of government.  As we see Obama being backed into a corner by republicans all we, as citizens of this country hear, is the problems each side has in their plan to recuperate America. Why aren’t we hearing the solutions to these problems, why are we working against each other rather than helping each other?  This is majorly the reason why Americans have shifted their attention. Overall, Borger provides a solution; we, first, need to start trusting good leaders to run this country, the only downfall is, we have yet to see any good leaders.

I found this article interesting to me because I too have the same feelings towards our government. And yes it is mostly due to the fact that there is never a single solution to the problem at hand. Politicians today don't care how their decisions affect the millions of people who have to live by it. Everybody in office wants to be their own person and work it their own way, instead of both or all ways.  I only hope for a team of good leaders to rise up on both sides to accommodate this predicament, before it’s too late. Hopefully then, trust will be regained and we flourish just as our fore fathers intended.