Why are all the efforts of "our" government focused on finding someone to blame? Government seems to have very little interest in solving the problem and that sould be the number one focus. There is plenty of time to assign blame but the clock is ticking on the real fix to this mess.
40 years ago, we put a man on the moon and returned him saftley to earth. Am I nuts or, with the resources of the US government, is it impoosible to seal a leak?
LOOK, I spent 53 years in the Wash DC are, 40 of them cognitive as to just where I was living, it's a one horse town, for field trips in school, we went to Baltimore to see anything industrial, from a brewery to a GM plant....DC is full of office workers, and damn few of them are engineering.....
the vastly prevailing attitude is 1/2 hr late, 1/2 hr early, and 2 hrs lunch for a 8 hour day, with damn few exceptions, they are more interested in budget justification and spend your tax money like KRAZY mad come end of every fiscal year....
they specialize in getting lost in some department, behind some corner office, and the only people that know they exist is the payroll dept.....dead serious, it's the literal truth across ALL agencies, without exception...but they are civil service, and the lazy attitude makes your local school board operation seem ambitious....
I remember back in the 50's, my best friend in HS and I went down town to foggy bottom area of DC, most famous for State Dept....to visit his mom who worked there, the joint was the most lazy operation I ever seen, at 11am they standing around the coffee machines, talking, at 2pm/after lunch they all standing around each other's desks, secretaries leaning back filing their nails, men with feet on the desk snoozing....again, serious....
about the only section of .gov there that showed the slightest concern or organization or ability to do jack shit, was the Pentagon, and that was not across the board, either...
have two ex wives in that town, and in the better daze, we used to laugh about the shituation,
funny how political pull can get you a job....first ex was the youngest daughter of a southern RR VP....personal friends of Ga. Senator Herman Talmadge....so her mom, was like a GS14 secretary, to cabinet officers, like Elliot Richardson, and some other guy....so Betty could not get a job outside DC, as commuting was a bitch getting her in/out of town as we lived outside the city....no Metro/subway in those daze....so to get her a job in Bethesda at the NIH campus, one of the best locations in the world, it was almost impossible....ONE CALL from up top, and she was hired in a month...typical....
after the divorce, Betty quit the job and Federal service entirely...dummy....
I heard she left that job, I about fell over....but it's typical of the area, spoiled easy come easy go attitudes abound....
ME, I never worked Civil service, no degree and couldn't pass a typing test....:crutches: so I did electronics then after 20 years had my fill of that crap, and went into home remodeling....
SO, you ask if anyone in that town can seal a leak, the answer is...
FUCK NO!!!! MAY be some group in the Pentagon can help...maybe.....
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