Are you suggesting that thousands of young people weren't disillusioned about the federal government in 2012? They traded in their hope for fear at the ballot box.

He should have been stopped right there. How is an agency which reports directly to the President in any way independent? The President hires the heads of the FCC (so long as they can get through the Senate pissing match).

What kind of idiotic business would just give up until 2017? How the hell am I supposed to eat for the next 3 years? Oh, I suppose that $900 a month should be enough to cover my rent, school loans, utilities, and food. Why I wouldn't even need to give up my caviar!

McDonald's is way behind on this front. Burger King has been using an automated broiler for decades, eliminating the grill cook completely.

I'm fairly certain that if you put that money into the hands of the average citizen, banks would find themselves with a lot of liquidity as people start dumping their debt.

All of them? Every single one? When you make a blanket statement like that, you're either lieing or you are personally deciding who is an expert and who isn't. We would have been a lot better off if that cash had gone straight to the citizenry. I could have paid down all of my debt and be ready to actually spend serious money.

This is a general QA problem. It's hard to get management to listen to on going quality problems. They don't want to spend time on things that do not translate into a quantifiable cost savings or income generation. It take a lot of effort and time to sell the problem.

If everyone is telling you half truths, no matter how many sources you go to, half of it is still lies. How are you supposed to tell which half is a lie and which isn't? And knowing a politician's voting record is really only useful you you can stomach reading the bills since titles are often misleading and the content is extremely complex. No one has time for that shit. Hell it looks like the politicians themselves usually don't have time for that shit.

(3) They need to actually have time to do their own research. This is why people pay for news media (if you still buy a newspaper at least). We TRUST the news to tell us what is going on. You really can't expect the average citizen to have time for much else.

I openly admit that I am presupposing no malicious intent and that the purpose of whistleblower protection is to genuinely help root out corruption in the government. Whether or not we agree on that detail, I think we can both agree that a derogatory adjective of some kind is appropriate.

That's why there are supposed to be legal protections for whistleblowers. These cases are not supposed to even get past the court hearing. However, they made a stupid exception for anything dealing with national security, which is where the most egregious corruption can occure.

I don't disagree that you should not be wearing Google glass in a movie theater. But the fact that the FBI wouldn't just look at the pictures like was originally suggested shows that this is indeed thuggery.

What party wants zero government? As I understand it, Republicans just want different government. But they definitely want more of it.

And yet, in the end it was passed by damn near every Republican in the House. In fact, more Democrats voted against the final bill than Republicans did.

I find this unlikely. I believe you will have two classes of people. Those who are able to maintain the illusion and those who are not. This happens in non-money driven class warfare all the time.