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Re:Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco... by tdoggette on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @02:20AM (#5284444)
I chuckled. It is, in fact, quite easy to imagine that American bureaucrats (as a collective) are that stupid. I'm not discounting the other possibility, though.
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Re:Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco... by intended on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @06:13AM (#5284961)
Whats somewhat sad though, is that for the majority of my time, America was described as the place where things "just worked".

To be fair, a lot of things do "Just work". This may just be the time Americans look to their government and decide to clean house and rehire competent people into it.

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Re:Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco... by homosaur on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @01:19PM (#5287327)
They can hire all the competent people they want, the system itself has become broken. There's too little representation and too much gerrymandering. There needs to be profound systemic reforms to even begin to address what's wrong with the US government.
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Re:Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco... by dontstealmyname on Thursday February 28, 2013 @06:35AM (#5298184)
This is the first thing I thought of when I read this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTSCRoYyM-Y

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