Comments on: How a Government Gets a Job Done

By: i'm doing your mom's second cousin twice removed by marriage

i'm doing your mom's second cousin twice removed by marriage — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:05:26 +0000

people are doing things ethically and on time somewhere? shut up and take my money!

By: Electricmotion

Electricmotion — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:33:30 +0000

Welcome to the flame war Brasil. Its only gets better. Just be happy that the electronics taxes are finally reasonable and that you can get online at all. Lol.

By: Electricmotion

Electricmotion — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:31:39 +0000

I’m a native to the USA and people from other countries tell me that all the time.

By: Stuff-n-stuff

Stuff-n-stuff — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:20:26 +0000

yeah, and taxes dont just go into the president’s pocket you know. they build roads, programs, etc. to help our country. how EFFECTIVE these are is currently under debate.

By: some random guy

some random guy — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:09:21 +0000

that is sooo true

By: DangerFart

DangerFart — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:45:20 +0000

The only correction would be that even when projects are done ethically and with a massive tax hike, they’re still never on time.

By: kelesse

kelesse — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:48:23 +0000

In many places, no, they don’t get rabies, because there is a program in place to make sure (regardless of their income) they get the (expensive) rabies IG and shots they need to prevent the infection taking hold and killing them.

By: Kra

Kra — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:17:38 +0000

That’s cause they’re not funny, noob.

By: quix0te

quix0te — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:14:33 +0000

If we acknowledged that government agencies can do things cheaply and efficiently, we’d be…. hmm. France?

Thank you BTW. Lets all blow kisses at Jonas Salk. While we’re at it.
Just ’cause.

By: ewwee

ewwee — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:06:03 +0000

Do you live in Brazil? You are telling a native that he doesn’t know what he is talking about! And that he has no right to complain.

By: JD

JD — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:49:45 +0000

Better late than never!

By: Bobnine

Bobnine — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:03:40 +0000

Two generations late? more like never.

By: meh

meh — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:21:11 +0000

You can NOT complain about Brazil, your president, in a few years, came up from a semi favela country to a first world country, taking out half of the poverty of your country and getting huges ammounts of money, out of nothing.

Have you seen the countries around you? Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, etc? You can’t complain..

By: Worldview

Worldview — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:03:35 +0000

Yup, people still get rabies. A coworker is travelling to several south american countries next year and is being strongly encouraged to get the rabies shot before she goes.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:27:16 +0000

People still get rabies? Really?
This is not a sarcastic comment; I’m honestly surprised.

By: itwasadarkandstormynight

itwasadarkandstormynight — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:26:04 +0000

Aren’t most governments in futuristic novels dystopian?

By: forge

forge — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:53:33 +0000

There’s more than one government in the world, you boob.

By: kelesse

kelesse — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:50:18 +0000

I work in public health, which is a government-run program that keeps your life fairly free from a lot of nasty things on a pittance of your money. We help keep millions from suffering from TB, HIV, syphilis, cryptosporidiosis, rabies, measles, whooping cough, hepatitis, and a host of other diseases. If we didn’t, your life wouldn’t be half as easy as it is. And we don’t make squat for doing it.

Not only is what we do ethical, timely, and inexpensive, it’s indispensible. Thanks for forgetting we exist — that alone proves we’re doing our jobs, and your graph is an uninformed fallacy.

By: philip

philip — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:35 +0000

STOP THE TRIPLE OPPOSITES!

All things which aren’t inexpensive are expensive. All things which aren’t on time are late. All things which aren’t done ethically are tyrannical. The only original thing about a graph such as this is the center.

And in this case, as in half the cases, the center simply means “impossible”.

This is not original. It is old, and done a dozen times. Please, stop doing this.

By: dhydar

dhydar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:39:03 +0000

No. No, I don’t.

By: dhydar

dhydar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:38:45 +0000

…. I think the intent was that ethical / speedy implies huge cost.

By: wth

wth — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:55:35 +0000

Remember when women weren’t allowed to vote, and black folk weren’t allowed in certain places?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

By: Q

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:53:05 +0000

…but Pepperidge Farm ain’t just gonna keep it to Pepperidge Farm’s self free of charge. Maybe you go out and buy yourself some of these distinctive Milano cookies, maybe this whole thing disappears.

By: narrarator

narrarator — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:40 +0000

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

By: big

big — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:24:09 +0000

Remember when graphjam had funny graphs?

By: transistor09

transistor09 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:05:39 +0000

First of all, “the government” not “a”.
Secondly, if you can predict what is written outside a circle using common sense, don’t write it- that ruins the fun.
Also, nice work not misusing the word paradox, I was getting tired of that.
I would upload some funny graphs, but they don’t come up, even in the “Upcoming” section.

By: Ruan

Ruan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:41:15 +0000

That’s because you don’t know Brazil. We have High taxes, politicians have no ethics, buildings are always overpriced and WHEN we get something done, it’s not on time. You should be happy

By: sane person

sane person — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:33:37 +0000

Insane tax hikes fall under ethical? Interesting.

By: Humm.

Humm. — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Maybe the person who made the graph didn’t come up with anything better for an unethical way the governments do things. Or that’s just overexaggerating, could be there to mean something like “ramming their way through”.

By: annoying firster

annoying firster — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:15:25 +0000

FIRST!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, this graph doesn’t apply to modern governments, tyrannical dictatorships don’t do anything either inexpensively or on time