The Almighty US Government

[Cinjin]

Top 10 Ways the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World


Most any person from any country will tell you that they love their homeland. I think most Americans would tell you the same, but to be completely honest, these last few years I haven't met a single one of my fellow Americans that doesn't express utter contempt and disdain for our ruling government.

In truth, I think everyone I personally know literally HATES our own government. Now I know that there are many people in many countries who would give a lot to live here and experience our democratic government, but what they don't understand is that we have no more real control in our government than they do with their dictatorship. The only difference is that they are not under the illusion that they do.






yeah,
I'm angry about it - what of it?

[Napoléon]

The whole idea of a 'democratic government' is rendered a farce when the only political parties capable of winning an election are influenced completely by the massive multi-billion dollar corporations that back them IMHO.

[BlackSwordsman]

Down with America! greedy bastards, You take things from china and mark them up 800% or MORE

[Minimalist]

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.


-- H. L. Mencken

[vorlon13]

Interesting to contemplate a presidential candidate promising to freeze federal hiring, and then to layoff (or fire) 1000 federal employees a day for the duration of his/her term.

[Minimalist]

The libertarian fuckheads would love that.

[vorlon13]

1000/day would hardly put a dent in it.

A 'serious' attempt at making the Libertarians happy would be 10,000 day, and even that would take awhile to burn through the human flotsam and jetsam clogging the guvmint.

[Minimalist]

[Mudhammam]

Insanity, how can you vote on every single one? Lmao.

[JuliaL]

Unfortunately, existing societies developed and still live with some attitudes which previously had value but have outlived much of their usefulness. Among these is, "If you don't work, you don't eat."
Machines have absorbed not only the jobs of the unskilled manual laborers like ditch diggers and farmers. They have taken those of the skilled such as machinists, production engineers, clerks, typists and secretaries. Long before singularity, I expect creative and intellectual tasks to be taken as well.
This leaves few options for individuals other than starvation. One is bureaucracy where an unlimited number of make-work paper pushing jobs can be created in government or finance. Another option is to become one of the very few masters of the system. The one percenters who climb to the top of the pile of their fellow humans by becoming masters of the system. The owners of Starbucks rather than the rest of us who just work there.
We could get lucky and experience a substantial loss of technological civilization via climate change or ecological collapse. Then we'd be back to total employment grubbing out enough food to avoid starving before spring.
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I am retired from an engineering career in automation taking away those jobs and giving them to machines. No need to offshore them. The machines work cheaper than the Chinese. Don't be too mad at me. I needed the work.