Government Fails

The government is made up of people too. Sometimes, astoundingly stupid people.

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Sinkhole of bureaucracy

There's an old mine in Pennsylvania where the U.S. processes federal retirements. By hand. On paper. In 2014.

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B.C. elementary school starts "no-touch" recess policy

"Send your kids to public school," they said. "It's the only way they'll learn normal social interaction," they said. Remember! There is a zero-tolerance policy in effect against games of tag, hugs, and holding hands. I'm sure the kids will turn out just fine.

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‘There’s Plenty of Money, It’s Just the Government Doesn’t Have It’ — Congressman Keith Ellison

The title pretty much sums it up. It's very rare for a politician to so tersely express their belief that the government is the only entity entitled to have actual property rights.

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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails

Ironic, since they appear to be perfectly capable of searching everyone else's emails... and your cell phone records, and your online activities, and...

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After discovering that approximately 170 of their computers were infected with the Conflicker worm, the German Ministry of Education in Schwerin simply threw them away, resulting in the equivalent loss of almost $250,000.

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It's one thing to be wrong about absurdly common knowledge and base your entire argument on a mistake. It's another thing to lecture your opponents for not taking 5 seconds to "google" the subject, when you clearly haven't done it yourself.

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Joe Biden saying the exact opposite of the truth, along with some advice of questionable value. I don't know if he's just ignorant, or he's doing this on purpose. Probably neither, probably just saying what his aids told him to say.

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Good thing this woman was in a safe zone when she was raped. That rapist could have been seriously hurt if she had been armed.

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There are no words.