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I'm feeling a tangible dissonance brought on by these two seemingly inconsistent truths: * The government is incompetent at implementing good programs, like he
by nostromo 13y ago
I'm feeling a tangible dissonance brought on by these two seemingly inconsistent truths:
* The government is incompetent at implementing good programs, like healthcare reform.
* The government is very competent at doing bad things, like domestic spying.
- jlarocco 13y agoThey're probably equally bad at both things, but being incompetent isn't a problem. They've totally screwed up health care, and they're not giving up, they're going to try even harder to get it working. On secret projects there's even less incentive to admit failure and kill the project because there's no public oversight. For all we know, the NSA spying programs were delayed a dozen times and came in billions over budget...
- meowface 13y ago>For all we know In at least one big case, we do in fact know it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project
- jgeorge 13y agoI'm a firm believer in the lack of competency in all things governmental. The government is terrible at domestic spying. "Grab everything and look for interesting stuff" is a terrible way to do it - expensive, complex to whole new levels of complexity, and the miniscule amount of data you actually seek is lost in the deluge of noise of all the data you don't need. The only thing the government is any good at is ensuring that government retains the power it needs to stay governing.
- rtpg 13y agoit's never been said they're actually good at spying (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER)