Your government and you
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(Robotic voice) My country is incredible I love it and I would die for it and they do not control us with mind-control vaccines and propoganda *cough cough*. (America)
With a dishonest President with a socialist agenda and a filibuster-proof Congress on his side, I look into the future with worry.
Ah, well. I'm sorry I pointed the giant foam hand of accusation at you.Agent Larkin said:
To be fair, if you had a moat, you'd be needing it cleaned. I mean, the moat is use to keep out security threats and the great unwashed from entering his nice shiny mansion, right? It's like a big watery bouncer, and if MP's have guards they should so be paid by the people they're trained to push away.Yudas said:
Thatcher fought the Falklands war because the swell of patriotism around it allowed her to win reelection. Labour would have done the exact same in her position, and recent history has proven they're not exactly averse to war.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
The unions had gone way too far, and are partly responsible for the current malaise in British maufacturing. However, Thatcher must shoulder some blame for ushering in the era of deregulation in the financial sector that led to the economic crisis. Obviously, the current Labour administration are to blame as well for doing nothing to turn the tide.
Those angry miners should have had their world with Scargill, he became a facist leader within the union movement, refusing to let the miners make their own decisions, and showed himself willing to throw their lives away for the sake of his own vendetta against Thatcher. You can't let a man like that win, and if the miners were unwilling to disown him, then it's sad but unavoidable they had to suffer what they did for him to be defeated.
My current government (Irish) the blasphemy law (though the wording of it is so vague that it's unlikely to be very ineffective and rarely used, the idea of it alone is worrying), and the absolute corruption and incompetence of the main party, Fianna Fail, who we won't be able to get rid of for another 4 years despite the whole country hating them so much that their candidates for the upcoming local elections are afraid to come canvassing door-to-door.
I heard something else about Canada... apparently, one of their government members said that the United States' government needs to stop lying about alien encounters and contact these aliens to help us with a problems of global warming...ExodusinFlames said:
Oh, and Illinois elected a dead guy for senator or something...
If you've heard of Romania, you may have heard it all. If you haven't here's a summary: On papers: Democratic Republic. In fact: Pseudo-Democratic run by Communists (last president was a great member in the Communist Party before 1989). We recently joined the EU, and that didn't help us one bit: new funds have come in for projects, like highways. Out of the highways, they have done an average of 5 km on each. IN 3 YEARS!
They recently adopted the telephone tapping law. It would seem to be all fin and dandy since a lot of european countries have it. They added a 13th paragraph which allow for A LOT of loopholes in which big companies can use that against the consumers.
I want to leave this country, but can't afford it and still need to finish studies
They recently adopted the telephone tapping law. It would seem to be all fin and dandy since a lot of european countries have it. They added a 13th paragraph which allow for A LOT of loopholes in which big companies can use that against the consumers.
I want to leave this country, but can't afford it and still need to finish studies
The Netherlands here. I don't remember any specifically stupid laws being enacted here recently, but we've had both our prime-minister and our finance minister deemed it necessary to publicly comment on the break-up of two minor celebreties... Why aren't you running our country?