Reply #22: Yeah ...

[Cosmocat]

No doubt throwing money out to say they threw money out is all they really know to appease the masses for situations that braindead talking points can't wash away ... All these freaks know is money ... Money is their god, it is their existence ... In their limited world scope, they go to what they know ...

I agree that the goverment is overwhelmingly manned, at the lower and even midlevels by mostly well intentioned and dedicated individuals ...

I still think that indifference is closer to the point than "incompetence" ... They may or may not be "competent" at running the goverment ... But, before that comes a complete indifference to even trying ...

Bush and the levers of power ... Again, eh ... That is giving him too much credit ... He has been foisted to the presidency and allowed to think he is in charge ... He can stomp and strut around all day long, but that doesn't make him in charge ... He is a swarmy little charmer (to those who are rich enough to be charmed by that kind of swarm) who has just bullied his way around life, until the right ideologically deranged psychophants got ahold of him, and have managed him since ...