I used to work for a small software company that had had hired a DC lobbying firm and gotten their hands on a $12 million per year pork grant that was ostensibly to be used for improving manufacturing in our (very rural and very red) state. My company couldn’t just pocket this money, so instead they had set up another corporation which was probably a legitimate legal entity but was actually run by one of our employees out of a closet-sized office rented in a generic building downtown. This mostly bogus corporation would dole out the $12 million to other companies (most of which weren’t even really in our state) which would in turn hire us as consultants at inflated hourly rates to produce software that nobody ever used. And as anyone could expect, the owners of my company were rabid conservatives who loved to rant about “welfare queens”.
You could call this “one hand washing the other” but “circle jerk” is a lot more appropriate. And this little bit of corruption was an absolute drop in the fucking bucket in terms of what’s really going on out there.
This is just how their brains work. It’s us vs them, not right and wrong. That’s why brain damage sometimes turns people into a conservative. I honestly believe their brains are not up to par in some ways.
I used to work for a small software company that had had hired a DC lobbying firm and gotten their hands on a $12 million per year pork grant that was ostensibly to be used for improving manufacturing in our (very rural and very red) state. My company couldn’t just pocket this money, so instead they had set up another corporation which was probably a legitimate legal entity but was actually run by one of our employees out of a closet-sized office rented in a generic building downtown. This mostly bogus corporation would dole out the $12 million to other companies (most of which weren’t even really in our state) which would in turn hire us as consultants at inflated hourly rates to produce software that nobody ever used. And as anyone could expect, the owners of my company were rabid conservatives who loved to rant about “welfare queens”.
You could call this “one hand washing the other” but “circle jerk” is a lot more appropriate. And this little bit of corruption was an absolute drop in the fucking bucket in terms of what’s really going on out there.
The only moral abortion is my own.
This is just how their brains work. It’s us vs them, not right and wrong. That’s why brain damage sometimes turns people into a conservative. I honestly believe their brains are not up to par in some ways.