Facebook and Government

I think this great that the 21st century technology is being used by officials of our government.

I kind of understand why

We should follow this

Would love you to highlight our "Metro Westside Subway Extension" group. It's part of the official communications and ways to comment on our formal environmental study underway. With more than 2,200 members (& growing) we think we're the largest transit-oriented group on FB. The FTA has noticed (you can find the link to their video at our group) and others.

What's confusing about this, though, is that now my posts to the Pages I administer now have an icon that says "Only Friends" -- i.e., consistent with my settings on my *personal* profile -- does that mean they're not going to Page Fans who are not FB friends of my personal profile?

don't like! i have friends who post in several languages from around the world, some of which i can read, some of which can be interpreted relatively easily. i'm not sure what this feature means.

I am thankful for all the men and women serving in our military defending our freedom and way of life.

I worked for the private sector for more than 15 years and the DoD for the past 7 and to date I've never been raped, defrauded, or otherwise exploited by the Department of Defense and, to be very candid, they don't claim to be in the flower business. They actually attend to the business they quite clearly advertise.

In stark contrast the Banksters actually did claim to be very concerned about getting Americans that first McMansion - ah, the former pride of home ownership lying shattered in a thousand broken lives - and Madeoff promised even charitable foundations a consistent 10% return and as I recall Bear Stearns told investors and Wall Street, in general, they were entirely liquid, and the DoD may pay $500 for the legendary, mythical hammer yet they've never purchased a Merrill Lynch $35,000 toilet or $1,400 trash can. Yet, when the dust has settled, the almighty "private sector" comes sprinting to the Federal Government like an evil, fat, unruly child using the clever ruse of being too big (and undeniable stupid not to mention woefully inept) too fail.

So, as soon as the hopelessly corrupt, utterly inept, thoroughly helpless "private sector" can actually turn a profit - minus the government welfare without defrauding taxpayers or elderly homeowners - and pay their electric bill then, perhaps, one could begin to complain about the Federal government, again. At this juncture, however, I wouldn't complain too loud as AIG still hasn't finished sucking on that left government tit, yet...they've sucked the right one, dry, but they just latched on to the full one on the left. ... See More

Yet without the interference of that "Socialist" bailout (originally passed by Paulson and our first retarded President, W) surely Wall Street would have created millions of jobs by now and Century 21 would be training new Realtors by the hundreds and not a minute too soon, either, as Countrywide is just hours away from announcing a Mortgage Broker hiring extravaganza;)

Love it (like me) or hate it (like the obese drug addict Mr. Limbaugh) the government has made the private sector it's jailhouse bitch and all the thanks and dubious praise goes to Wall Street and Fortune 500 America which last time I checked "The Economist" ranked, globally, at or near the very bottom of the desperately and pathetically incompetent scale;)

Private sector can't even pay their cable bill or keep the office air conditioner running in Phoenix, AZ if good old Uncle Sam doesn't give that collective bitch a f'n allowance;)