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"...business is faster at dealing with change than government..."

Government Committee: Staid and slow. Cautious. Afraid of changes that bring potential loss News report: "Several FISA judges said they also remain puzzled by Bush's assertion that the court was not 'agile' or 'nimble' enough to help catch terrorists" Board of Directors: Imaginative and quick. Bold. Daring. Unafraid of changes that bring potential loss Forum post: "...'No private company can compete with the government. Private firms must turn a profit, or at least break even to survive; whereas the US government can just print money'...'The only way that the government alternative can hedge out private insurance is if the government program does it better than private industry.' Forum post reply: 'If private industry is as agile and as efficient as it is supposed to be, competing with a big slow government organization should be easy'..." Government in fact has no reason to exist, outside of making changes. Business does, though; counting the money

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"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy

Uniformity

The suit. No other item of clothing has remained static and unchanged for over a century. Every other century, even during the middle ages, saw changes in clothing at varying paces. The suit is a symptom not only of groupthink (WP) in the business sector, but stagnation.

The Mao suit (WP), widely ridiculed in the West as a symbol of conformity, was actually based on the Western business suit, albeit a suit for all the people.

Launch pad

This is either, a Fahrvergnügen Driving Excitement Moment, or lunch break at the Feed and Seed, depending on whether the guy is waiting for a line of cars in front of him or waiting for his burger and fries to digest. You decide. Kind of makes a mess of the argument that public transportation is lame because you have to wait for buses

Lemmings
"...Packed like lemmings into shiny - metal - boxes / contestants in a suicidal race..." - The Police, Synchronicity II

If all the cars in the world were built into buses, and then the cars' occupants started filling the buses, nearly 90% of the buses would be left empty. In other words, we can run at least ten times the number of buses as now, and still break even in fuel to drive them and raw materials to build them.

Get someone else to drive, and learn to be part of a community instead of one in a herd of road rager lemmings. Or try. Or at least think about it. Or whatever, I cease to care.

Cartoon: 'Inventing the staredown'. Missing Link holding a fearsome bone club, staring into a pool, inventing.

"You looking at me? Huh? You looking at me?"

Capitalist Cloud Cuckoo land
Neurotics build castles in the sky. Psychotics live in them. Capitalists float a futures market on the expected returns of rent from them.

The Original, from Doonesbury: "Operation Frequent Manhood" But truth is stranger than fiction: "Operation Just Cause". Try an apostraphe just before the 'Cause', making it short for, "Because". And fictional representations of truth stranger still: "Fires of Freedom", Enduring Freedom,Propaganda Due (P2)

The mission to apprehend Manuel Antonio Noriega, not to be confused with the tamales that were mistaken for packages of cocaine...Or is it? : Operation Nifty Package

To decide to be employed in a job in which one must follow any order, no matter how dubious, to be the cause of any effect, no matter how grievous, is not a badge of honor; it is a poor career choice. I do not sympathize, altho I do pity.

Rug of Freedom of The November

...and Right-wingers not just wooly headed, but dreamy poets as well : "opportunity called November"

"We are unwilling to let this cabal of radicals pull the rug of freedom out from under us in our lifetime. Now we have this glorious opportunity called November" -Rep. Rep. Michelle Bachman^[1]

Hush, sweet prince Reagan, Lo, it doth come all 'p'on the Silken Winges of Opportunytie, and those assembled, verily shall they dub it, The November

Feel downtrodden? Your freedoms trampled under foot? People in power suits walking all over you? New evidence has emerged of a possible reason why, and a possible solution. Just tug on the rug. Oh, if it were only that simple.

1. ↑ http://minnesotaindependent.com/58135/in-maryland-bachmann-calls-democrats-a-cabal-of-radicals In Maryland, Bachmann calls Democrats a ‘cabal of radicals’, Andy Birkey, April 27, 2010, Minnesota Independent