[extropy-chat] [Politics] Real Politick

[Al Brooks]

As you've said many times before, "we get the government we deserve". Yes, we deserve this government we have, we will be stuck with it for generations to come. We will be stuck with police who take bribes; bad 'justice' system; ugly prison system; all the way up into the highest ranks of government. We will continue to have a mediocre POTUS (look at this decade, it is shaping up to be like the '70s in terms of POTUS-- Nixon, Ford, Carter-- cripes). 
Americans want a very clean environment, but all the same they want the highest standard of living in the world? They want change but they want anachronism? They want greed but they want piety?
We really do get the government we deserve.

>Optimally, I favor demonopolizing the DoD and selling it off to the
>insurance industry, along with FEMA, the FAA, and the DOT, while
>devolving all Reserve and National Guard units to their respective
>state governments, who can all decide what they want to do with their
>own toys. That will happen right after we sell off the national forests
>and parks, kick everyone off welfare, privatize social security,
>medicaid, and medicare, spin off NASA into a corporation and schedule
>an IPO ten years hence, along with a lot of other fun stuff. 
>If I can't have my way, we'll have to muddle along and stick to Plan B.
>Don't like it? Too friggin bad, YOU are one of those who refuse to get
>politically involved, remember?

		
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