Ever get the feeling that your country is run by idiots?

[Calico93]

Yeah, we voted conservatives (not me personally the country in general)
And they're making cuts that affect mostly middle and lower class people, and are enforcing the cuts too soon so that we will bring ourselves back into recession.

And probably make everyone do fox hunting knowing them

 

[Ickorus]

I get a feeling the entire world is run by idiots.

 

[greenflash]

every day of my life

 

[ShasoRmyr]

Ever get the feeling that your country is run by idiots?

Yes, I live in the US, so this is mandatory. Stuff like this is why

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-4-2010/i-give-up---9-11-responders-bill

 

[Wade Wilson]

The war in Afghanistan was started to build and protect a pipeline with which to transmit Iraqi oil through Turkey instead of Russia.

Because Iraq is bordering Afghanistan and definitely not bordering Turkey...

http://www.njscvva.org/images/Military%20Photographs/Map%20-%20Middle%20East%20-%20Persian%20Gulf%20-%20Southwest%20Asia.gif

 

[cystemic]

australia didnt actually have a government for about a week during the last election and I couldn't see any difference going about day to day. the apathy was palpable

 

[kiwi_poo]

the dutch version of Hitler (Geert Wilders, he wans to destroy Islam) is about to become prime minister of Holland, so yes, both a majority of voters in this country and the government are a bit "special".

 

[Bretty]

£300+ a year or £50-100 is a lot when your on about £50-£60 a week for everything. Just checked online. Disability benefits are way too low.

Hence the importance of both good private insurance and an easy job. Disability benefits are not meant for long term financial support, never have been.

Usually companies pay early retirement or the wage you were earning (usually halfed) after you are forced from work. I dont know this case, so I have no idea what you are meant to do on it. Sure it is sad if both earners are disabled and have to support a family on only that but you cannot blame the system for that...

 

[loppopoo]

AHAHAHAHAHA. I live in the U.S.A, is that even a question?

 

[Continuity]

Run by idiots? not so much. populated by idiots? oh yes.

With all its flaws and short-comings I think the UK government is one of the better ones in the world. Which isn't to say there aren't idiots, or idiotic policies and laws, of course there are.

No, its the mass of the population that I despise, which is too strong a word really as I don't care that much, but if I were capable of feeling anything about people it would be something of that variety.

 

[GrumpyOldSod]

I was given a calendar with a 'word for the day' on each sheet. One of the words was Kakistocracy, which means a form of government whose rulers are the least competent, least qualified or most unprincipled of all citizens.

 

[Wicky_42]

The British Government, whilst looking at a deficit of £150 billion, is planning to continue with nuclear rearmament, which is slated to cost £96 billion over the next 10 years. That's 10% of the yearly deficit to go on a weapon system that 1) we've never had or are likely to have the recourse to use and 2) is inadequate to deal with the extremist threats we're likely to face.

On top of that, they are continuing with the production of a pair of carriers - arguably the single most useful piece of wargear available to a modern nation - by extending contracts but without deciding whether they are going to finish the project. Hey, if you're spending £20 billion during an economic recession on something actually useful, at least finish the bloody job!

That, of course, doesn't even begin to hit on the slew of Greece-style cuts that seem designed to cripple those most vulnerable and our nation's recovery. Cuts for cuts' sake aren't the way to recover from recession, Cameron.

 

[General Vagueness]

I didn't want to accept the stereotyping but the more I see the more it seems that in the US (where I live) the Democrat party is incompetent, inadequate, incapable, or unwilling and the Republican party is insane, so yeah.

 

[greenflash]

I get a feeling the entire world is run by idiots.

if only we could have a world with no politics and other crazy stuff.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

The U.S. government isn't exactly full of idiots, but people have such differing ideals that it creates so many stalemates that accomplish nothing.

As my grandfather wisely put it, the Democrats have good ideas but no balls. The Republicans have enough backbone to make a brontosaurus jealous, but their ideas are generally counterproductive. And the third parties just watch everything, claiming they could do a better job, while doing absolutely nothing to help.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

No but I get the impression my country is being led by people with their own self-interests at heart.

Spoiler

not talking about Barack so much either

 

[Wicky_42]

The whole US government likes to spend all their time and resources funding a war started by a president to get revenge on a man who tried to kill his dad in the 90's during Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf.

To be fair, the man in question was an evil dictator who oppressed his people. I find it amusing that the act of deposing an evil dictator and instituting a republic where people can actually vote is seen as evil simply because the United States is the country doing it.

If it had worked, I'm sure there wouldn't be a problem. Thing is, when you invade a country, destroy its infrastructure, slaughter innocent people, destroy its government and steal its resources, whilst in the process stirring up a guerilla insurgency against your invasion/occupation, you're not in the best position to claim to be the 'good guys', and invasion and occupation form a poor foundation for a stable democratically elected government. Just look at recent Vietnamese and Korean history for the latest examples of the US trying the exact same damn thing, with similar poor results. Some people just never learn.

 

[Xangi]

Dude, I live in CANADA. I don't need to get any "feeling" that my country is run by people whose total IQ just barely rivals that of a komodo dragon, the evidence is right in the paper every morning, and on TV every day.

 

[Sakurazaki1023]

The reason all gevernments are run by idiots, is because smart/talented people go somewhere else. Politics is nothing more then a bad joke without a punchline.

As my AP Government teacher so eloquently put it...

"Anyone smart enough to succeed in politics is smart enough to stay the hell out of politics"

The world is full of idiots, why should our elected leaders be any different?