Bush speech

ARogueTrader · Apr 14, 2004

Ya Bush is Captain Queeg, but instead of the marbles in his hand, they are in his mouth and head.

Quote from hoodooman:

Rogue said.
we don't need a Captain Queeg at the helm.

Funny I was thinging the same thing when I watched Bush last night. It was perfect except for the part about the strawberries.

Maverick 74 said:
He streamlined the CIA, FBI, NSA to make it more efficient.

Anyone one who knows any thing about the federal government knows that you can't streamline a bureaucracy. I worked for dod for 20 years and I,m laughing my ass off at that one.

hoodooman · Apr 14, 2004

Maverick said:
Maverick said:

Anything can become more efficient, even the government.
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All agencies of the federal government have field offices that do most of the work.

In accordance with the Peter Principle, fuckups who are promoted to important positions in the field stations and who cannot carry out their assigned tasks are never demoted but instead are shit canned up to headquarters. Consequently, the political appointees and these incompetent shitheads end up running the country.

In the 20 years that I spent working for DOD, I never knew a single competent individual who was ever transferred to the Pentagon. One hundred percent of the ones that I knew who were transferred there, either got their ass in a sling and had to get out of a field station or they transferred there because they couldn't get promoted.

The only way that you can improve a situation like that is to transfer the best people up to headquarters, but since the freaking politicos are too stupid to know that, it will never happen.

Furthermore, the screwups who get ahead at headquarters are the ones who tell these stupid politicos what they want to hear and so the same old shit occurs over and over again.

Now how can you streamline a system like that?

Maverick74 · Apr 14, 2004

Quote from hoodooman:

Maverick said:
Maverick said:

Anything can become more efficient, even the government.
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All agencies of the federal government have field offices that do most of the work.

In accordance with the Peter Principle, fuckups who are promoted to important positions in the field stations and who cannot carry out their assigned tasks are never demoted but instead are shit canned up to headquarters. Consequently, the political appointees and these incompetent shitheads end up running the country.

In the 20 years that I spent working for DOD, I never knew a single competent individual who was ever transferred to the Pentagon. One hundred percent of the ones that I knew who were transferred there, either got their ass in a sling and had to get out of a field station or they transferred there because they couldn't get promoted.

The only way that you can improve a situation like that is to transfer the best people up to headquarters, but since the freaking politicos are too stupid to know that, it will never happen.

Furthermore, the screwups who get ahead at headquarters are the ones who tell these stupid politicos what they want to hear and so the same old shit occurs over and over again.

Now how can you streamline a system like that?

I agree with this hence my desire for less government. But what the dept of homeland security did was get rid of a lot of waste and I'm completely in support of that. We don't need redundancy in government. But I agree with what you said. Which kind of surprises me that you want to support Kerry, a man whose goal is to have government run everything and bring even more incompetent people to Washington to spend your money. Go figure.

hoodooman · Apr 14, 2004

Kerry has seen the elephant and I like that.

ARogueTrader · Apr 14, 2004

Q: Mr. President, who will be the leader of Iraq when the transfer of power takes place this summer.

A: You will just have to wait and see...

rgelite · Apr 14, 2004

Quote from hoodooman:

Kerry has seen the elephant and I like that.

Yeah, but too bad it's pink.

And the only reason he sees it is because he's drunk on wanting power (like all the rest).

BSAM · Apr 14, 2004

Quote from hoodooman:

Anyone one who knows any thing about the federal government knows that you can't streamline a bureaucracy.
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I worked in the bureaucracy a loooong time also. Many of our younger members here don't understand what you mean. One really can't realize the waste, the laziness of the employees, and the overinflated egos that exist in a bureaucratic environment, unless one has actually lived through (and survived) the experience. Streamlining a bureaucracy?

LMAO!!

Maverick74 · Apr 14, 2004

Quote from BSAM:

I worked in the bureaucracy a loooong time also. Many of our younger members here don't understand what you mean. One really can't realize the waste, the laziness of the employees, and the overinflated egos that exist in a bureaucratic environment, unless one has actually lived through (and survived) the experience. Streamlining a bureaucracy?LMAO!!

Well, it looks like you won't be voting for a democrat then.

bungrider · Apr 14, 2004

Quote from waggie945:

Oh, and has anyone seen the coalition lately???

Dubya sure didn't like that question, now did he?

The coalition has gone the way of saddam's weapons.

Next question, please.

BSAM · Apr 14, 2004

Quote from Maverick74:

Well, it looks like you won't be voting for a democrat then.

Actually, this year, this Ronald Reagan Republican will be voting for John Kerry. Bush HAS TO GO. And, no, NOT just for the Iraq quagmire.