10 thoughts on “Trust In The Federal Government”

  1. Of course I trust the government!

    I trust the government to be inefficient. I trust the government to be inept and bureaucratic. I trust the government to be corrupt. I trust the government to destroy civil liberties. I trust the government to grow like a weed that strangles everything else.

    Above all else, I trust the government to be utterly incompetent.

  2. A really annoying thing is the turn about blame game where blame for the waste and corruption in the federal and state governments are heaped at the feet of the people who try to fight it (a special case of a more general phenomenon). While there are some significant unintended consequences to poorly thought-out corrective measures (eg, micromanaging bean counting of low value gear that drives up overall costs), it is remarkably dishonest to claim that somehow all the inefficiency and corruption is due to these sources when these schemes are reaction to existing waste and corruption.

    It’s also interesting how these corrective measures seem to manifest. The federal government is very concerned with the little guy walking off with a bunch of screws or computer equipment, but not very concerned about a $400 billion contract delivering a working fighter jet.

    1. Yeah — I used that mote-and-beam business for a detail in my current work in progress — a guy getting fired for an “ethics violation” for having eaten two cookies at a training seminar. The cookies were considered to be an illegal “gift,” which was ridiculous because the guy had no purchasing authority whatsoever and the cookies were of negligible value.

      And it’s not entirely ridiculous — when my husband was still working for the state of Indiana, they came up with new ethics rules that could have actually gotten state employees in trouble for eating any of the refreshments at training seminars provided by outside companies. It wasn’t enforced and everyone noshed at will at those events, but if someone wanted to selectively enforce it to get rid of an employee, it could’ve been used against them even if they ate a single cookie.

      1. The rules for Congressional staffers (this was a few years back, may or may not have changed) said they could accept food only if they at it standing up. But they could accept alcohol standing up or sitting down (or, presumably, falling down).

        Surely not intended to encourage drinking on the job, but what else could it possibly accomplish?

  3. Strange to think that today’s lefty stooges and tools were the same ones that protested against the government in the 60’s. Back then they wouldn’t trust the government.

    Today, they glory in its force….it’s dictatorial power.

    1. Strangely enough, you will still see leftists make allegations about people collaborating with the government. Sometimes while defending the government, much like OWS anarchists.

  5. You can fool some of the people all of the time. We now have empirical evidence that “some” is 19%.

    Good to know.

  6. I trust the government as far as the honest people can throw it. Getting mighty hard to pick the government up to throw it these days.

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