Do you think the State is something more than a parade of men in suits pointing at flow charts?

[sibelian]

Do you think they have your best interests at heart?

Look around at the people you work with. Imagine them, the same personal qualities, the same lumpy ordinariness, the same twisty ideas, the same stubborn-ness, the same helplessness, the same vulnerability, the same vices, the same self-absorption, the same kindness, the same stilted indifference, the same awkwardness, the same incompetence, the same wasted potential, the same uncomplicated hostility, the same humility, the same simplicity, the same diffidence, the same sincerity, the same insincerity... but in shinier suits and with more expensive USB pens and larger flow-charts and some nice long pointy sticks.

Now imagine them, the same people, in bigger cars, in a motorcade if you like. Now imagine them standing on the steps of a plan, about to walk down, waving. Not actual politicians, just the same ordinary people you work with. You coudl give them some lessons in oration. You could set up the lighting around them to make them look like whatever you want.

No give them all your personal information.

And not just all your personal information, everybody else's personal information, ALL OF IT.

Why are you doing that?

[xchrom]

1. i don't want to give all my personal information to my mother

let alone any body else.

***ok -- i just had a horrifying image of seeing my mother after she found out everything there is to know about me...

[RKP5637]

2. "Do you think they have your best interests at heart?" About the only time they

have your interests at heart is when they see money at the end of the tunnel for them! Most are buffoons.