Re:U.S. Google antitrust case set to expand with GOP states ...
by Retric on Saturday September 12, 2020 @06:16PM
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> To suggest that government is capable of acting dispassionately
Government is a massive beast doing all kinds of things at the same time. For example only 12% of all US governmental employees work for the federal government, it’s 24% at the state level, and 63% at the local level. The overwhelming majority of what the government does is run schools, libraries, maintain infrastructure etc in a rather banal fashion.
What makes the news are the rare exceptions which people actually find interesting. The 600,000+ bridges making life a little easier are generally background noise, but when just 1 fails that’s potentially national news etc.
Government is a massive beast doing all kinds of things at the same time. For example only 12% of all US governmental employees work for the federal government, it’s 24% at the state level, and 63% at the local level. The overwhelming majority of what the government does is run schools, libraries, maintain infrastructure etc in a rather banal fashion.
What makes the news are the rare exceptions which people actually find interesting. The 600,000+ bridges making life a little easier are generally background noise, but when just 1 fails that’s potentially national news etc.