Can we trust our government?

I don't think so. The day has come when we know positively that Congress will do as it pleases and the American People, their employers, vote for the least of two evils. Geithner was very qualified to be Treasury Secretary in his career. But the fact that he could not handle his own financial relationship with the government discredits the qualifications. If the Treasury Secretary "forgot" to pay his taxes, so can we. We can't though; it's different for some reason.
A survey was read on the Glenn Beck program yesterday that 90% of Americans did not want the first Bailout. They wrote their Congressmen and communicated this information to them and yet, the bailout still passed with more of our hard earned money flying out of their hands like it was a bottomless pit. What else can we do as Americans? We are at our wits end. The last election voted in the same people that got us into trouble and now it's worse. I don't care which party you belong to, Congress did it. The people who don't livein reality did it.
Please tell me a reason why we should still trust our government, I cannot think of any reason.