I give my trust to no one, certainly no one in gov't.

Absolutely not, never have, never will. As Acton said, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

No, not for a second. But I don't believe people should ever trust anyone but themselves. They can and should consult with others and once reason & logic are applied, accept others judgement but never do it blindly.

In my opinion, this alone is the reason government must be limited to an absolute minimum.

It is nothing new. I believe that trust in government was highest in the late 1950s.
See here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/5392/trust...
(Scroll down to University of Michigan Election Survey)

This NPR story cites a Pew report on previous surveys.
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/23/4570637...
Scroll to the chart that shows a fall from 80% in 1968 to 20% in 2015.

The Atlantic did pinpoint a moment of renewed patriotism in the wake of 9/11:
The only time since 1975 that government trust broke 50% was in the months following 9/11. After the tumultuous assassinations of the 1960s, the Vietnam War, the resignation of President Nixon, and the stagflation of the late 1970s, public trust fell from 80% in 1966 to about 25% in 1981. Since then it's only peaked over 50% once, after 9/11.
here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/a...

When my wife and I were in school together (c. 2008), she was majoring in computer security and I was in criminal justice. We had a CJ class together in "Evidence and Procedure." It took some doing, but the instructor, a local judge, got us all to "call and response" to his query:
Why do we have a First Amendment?
Because we don't trust the government!
...
Why do we have a Seventh Amendment?
Because we don't trust the government!
...

It is pretty much a fundamental of American political theory that the Constitution has separation of powers and checks and balances because we never really trusted the government. I think that the idyllic Leave-it-Beaver-ism of the late 1950s and early 1960s was an anomaly that brought reflected approval to the government.

Hello mminnick,
Trust is earned. Here too they have been running a deficit for years.
"I love my country, but I fear my government." Mark Scott.
Respectfully,
O.A.

I think the last of my trust in government disappeared in April 1993.
I have seen nothing since then to change my opinion.