“Wake up America!
The insurance companies took over health care!
Wake up America!
The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing!
Wake up America!
The speculators took over Wall Street!
Wake up America!
They want your Social Security!
Wake up America!
Multinational corporations took over our trade policies!
Wake up America!
We went into Iraq for oil!
WAKE UP AMERICA!”
Dennis Kucinich
“Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence”
Arthur C. Clarke
“Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else – cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments – as long as the paperwork’s filled out properly. And in on time.”
Connie Willis
“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.”
Jeff Lindsay
“The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.”
Orrin Woodward
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
Laurence J. Peter
“The computer may be incompetent in itself–that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.”
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
“Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn’t him.”
Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well.”
Bob Smith
Climate change is a survival threat to humanity.
WAKE UP AMERICA!