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11/11/2005: "Government"

Not that this is news to anyone born in the last 70 years, but here's a concrete, everyday manifestation of how overly bloated our government is -- a bureaucracy that sadly is only capable of growing more monstrous no matter who is in charge. Probably three-fourths of those jobs are just institutionalized welfare without the shame (assuming anyone still feels shame collecting welfare). But I digress. First four days this week, I averaged over 95 minutes getting to work. Today, Veteran's Day, a holiday where practically the only people who get the day off are government employees, the same drive took, like, wow, 55 minutes.