As I look down from this Senior ladder, I can't believe how naive I was to believe the governmental agency I was employed in was the ONLY agency that was rife with dysfunction. It is systemic like a Cancer that has gone viral. The sole function of Managers and Directors in government is to insure the function and operation of that particular agency for years to come. Thus, they will lie, confuse and mislead. It is though they see themselves as royalty and be damned with principal or ethics. Taxpayers? They are nothing, but a noise from the serfdom. We have created and enabled this sickness and it is time that we do something about it.

Republicans remind me of a family support case I handled. The mother was basically ghetto who came from a impoverished dysfunctional family who spent the majority of their years living off the government, the father came from a upper middle class conservative family that had average benign issues. Needless to say, the mother laid down endless claymore mines that the father naively would walk into. He did not know how to street fight and would get consistently creamed. Sound familiar? Republicans get it, they just don't know how to convert their ideology into a street fight.

I'm a CAL-EXPAT for all the reasons cited above. I have some fond memories of California, but at some point California became infected with a Cancer. It's illness is systemic and unfortunately will not be healed by an aspirin. Probably the biggest headache it has is the total lack of common sense, self interest and selfishness. California is ground zero where the genesis of the individual thought that the "government owes me because mindset" started to grow where it bred and became a communities collective thought which spread then throughout the nation. For political correctness we call it "special interest". "Special Interest" now has more punch and power than common sense.

You got that right: Black is no longer a color, it's a state of mind.

Continued: Thus, there is little or no incentive for achievers to achieve because the co-worker in the cube next door who is a slacker is going to receive the same "meets job expectations" and thus, the next step increase in pay. Isn't any wonder that since the implementation of the Great Society, that various "special interests" have popped up wanting their own slice of the pie? One cannot favor one segment of society at the expense of another without creating a schism. Obama banks on it.

Sowell should have included governmental agencies as an example of Socialism not working from the Pilgrim's to & including various countries. Governmental agencies are dysfunctional because of the administrative policies that are essentially socialistic. Once employed in a governmental system, it becomes virtually impossible to get rid of dead weight due to all the regulations that protect the worker versus at the expense of the product. Employees essentially are brought along by annual work performance evaluations under the title "meets job expectations". A collective subjective criteria that is meaningless in its face. Thus, employee's soon learn that the lowest common denominator is where the bar is set.

Continued from below: Our "entitlement policies" otherwise known as the Great Society has now reached the breaking point where 50% are supporting those who behave as below. Is it any wonder that we see such social decay and chaos in our cities? Is it any wonder that Corporations, educational institutions and our military are desperate to find motivated, responsible and skilled workers? When the Iraq war started, the AP reported that only one in four young people were qualified for today's military which is the same population that our corporations and educational institutions are competing for. Was does that tell you?

From someone who retired from working 25+ years in the "system", people fail to acknowledge or realize that there is little connection between becoming pregnant and at the same time have a solid relationship where the child is conceived out of love and care between the parents. Most of these situations where a child is conceived is a result of nothing more than a transitory relationship without any structural foundation under them. Thus, we see many situations where a male is the father of multiple children from multiple women and/or a woman with multiple children from multiple different men. We enable this behavior by paying the participants to continue this via Welfare. The resulting chaos now affects everyone.

Throughout out my working lifetime over 40+ years, I have witnessed (as just about everybody who would post here) inidividuals who game the system. Individuals who decide to take a "vacation" on the government's dime whether it be unemployment or disability. I have never understood the psychology of a person who can do this and look themselves in the mirror. After all, the "government" is their neighbor. Yep, it isn't just another government agency that is broken, it is us the people who are broken. Everything from the legal profession (lawyers and Judges), the worker within these agencies and the neighbor who witnesses this who do NOTHING and that is why it will continue on into infinity.

It is quite simple, Obama would of won with just a Snooki endorsement. The GOP does not understand the culture that voted Obama in nor do they know how to address their game plan. Time after time, Romney telegraphed to that culture exactly how they should shift and shift they did and cut him off at the knees. This is the same fight that is going on down at the lowest governmental level. It is an argument between logic and emotions and Obama has been the greatest Evangelical Preacher of all time. He knows exactly how to push buttons, manipulate and motivate the left. One of these days he will be outed like any other TV preacher..............