Government inefficiency is reassuring

I’ve said this before about other things, but it’s worth saying again in a new context. I find this news of the Secret Service operating with outdated and frequently malfunctioning, circa 1980s computer equipment, quite reassuring, actually.

As an old friend, a former government spook, likes to say, while hooting at the latest conspiracy theory of the paranoid: no agency of the federal government could find its ass with both hands. And thereby, my friends, our freedom is preserved. Imagine if they were actually efficient…

Via Dustbury.

0 responses to “Government inefficiency is reassuring

  1. Ha ha ha. So it’s universal then. Nice to see.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley

    I think it is universal. Human, anyway. But probably the same story elsewhere in the universe.