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If you think more, even larger government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, more deficit spending, more entitlements, more government takeover of private industry, more bailouts, more taxes, more "pork" projects and more centralization of power are good things, then yes, government is doing a good job.
And maybe you have no clue what unintended consequences are.
Todays book for my intentionally illerate 'friends' - Empire of Debt, William Bonner
Hahahahahaha.
RayAmerica
2010 Apr 13, 3:49am
Empire of Debt, William Bonner
Abe ... great book. Too bad they won't read it. Bonner's take on Thomas Freidman was so funny I read that section twice.
I've noticed a weird indifference among a lot of Americans when it comes to the subject of our government. Maybe they're just highly insulated, or perhaps they just don't want to look like a member of some Glenn Beck personality cult - for which they could be forgiven - but given some of the highlights of our Federal governments portfolio: our phony economy/financial collapse/wealth transfer, glaring SEC failures, our ongoing trade deficits/tariff policy, our insane and quasi-theocratic foreign policy, our failed drug war, our little problem with crony capitalism, our corrupt congress, skyrocketing unemployment and inevitable stagflation, Bush Doctrine and the reverberations from eight years of unprecedented malfeasance, environmental abuses, our Military industrial complex/DOD spending, etc. etc., it's really hard to understand how anyone could be so insouciant or forgiving. Is it fucking Beirut? No - but the Gulliver-sized pile of bullshit preventing what looks like a pretty good system on paper from being a reality is pretty hard to get around.
As for most of us enjoying relative prosperity - 'relative' as a qualifier renders this remark equivocal at best; poverty is not a subjective phenomenon, and the rate of poverty in this country far exceeds prosperity by any measure, unless we discount the massive amounts of personal and public debt created to fund our ersatz wealth this past decade. I guess I could compile a nice nerdy digest of charts and links referring to things like personal bankruptcy rates, savings rates, wage/salary erosion and unemployment/underemployment to help aid my point, but I'm too lazy.
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Just a simple question: Is government doing a good job?