Your Government Uses The Power You Give It To Help Their Cronies

Certainly not you!  They hate you.

Ethanol is universally bad for you...
But GOP cronies get rich:

http://bit.ly/2xm65fR

DUI arrests of the connected are handled differently:

http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/11/07/trooper-lawsuit-edit-police-report

Occupational licensing is used to protect politically connected industries from competition:

https://www.mercatus.org/publications/effects-occupational-licensure-competition-consumers-and-workforce

They'll REALLY protect you from competition if you're a big U.S. airline.  Think this keeps prices low?

http://www.aei.org/publication/profitable-us-airline-oligopoly-enjoys-global-marketplace-but-doesnt-like-competition-from-low-cost-gulf-carriers/

Your Government Doesn't Give a Shit What You Want

Some posts just write themselves...
You vote about how you want to vote for people and the people you voted for vote down the way you voted that you want to vote...

http://mainebeacon.com/14-democrats-join-republicans-in-repealing-ranked-choice-voting-referendum/

Your Government Lies To You With Impunity

Especially after they kill innocent people...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/world/americas/drug-enforcement-agency-dea-honduras.html?referer=http://m.facebook.com/

Your Government Can't Be Counted On In An Emergency

Puerto Rico...

http://reason.com/reasontv/2017/10/19/puerto-rico-blackout-mostly-weekly

Your Government Will Spend Your Money Wantonly And Without Oversight

From my buddy Bob, some crazy shit we may not need, with a bonus giveaway to a well-connected corporation, and limited oversight as a bonus.

https://firstnetfiasco.wordpress.com/
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/342398-when-government-contracts-become-corporate-welfare

No disaster goes to waste.  No oversight allowed:

http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/27/no-audits-allowed-of-300-million-no-bid

$1200 dollar coffee cups. WTF?

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-air-force-spent-1280-on-coffee-cup-2018-10

Your Government Doesn't Care If Your Child Dies

In the WTF, Why? Category:

http://feeltheliberty.com/toddler-denied-kidney-transplant-because-donor-violated-parole/

The headline is a little misleading but still fucked up.

If It Sounds Good, Your Government Doesn't Care If The Law Fucks Everyone

The ADA sounds good, does some good, but lately just enriches lawyers and assholes, while ruining things for the rest of us.  It could be easily fixed, but Your Government knows that their political opponents would make any reform sound like they wanted to rape babies, so...fuck it:

https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/08/web-accessibility-advocates-breaking-court/