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jsavimbi on Jan 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: US bars friends over Twitter joke

It's not that it has become worse, it's just that all those crazy things that happened after 9/11 have become institutionalized and bureaucratically entrenched.

Good luck getting rid of stupid when stupid has a budget.

electic on Jan 30, 2012 [–]

"Good luck getting rid of stupid when stupid has a budget."

I love that line. Catchy.

GFischer on Jan 31, 2012 | [–]

Similar quote:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Upton Sinclair

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair

jsavimbi on Jan 31, 2012 | | [–]

Well that was humbling.

GFischer on Jan 31, 2012 | | [–]

Why? Great minds think alike :)

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