the death of bureaucracy has been predicted. So, has it been fullfilled and what is its future..
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Well, our current bureaucracy is still alive and functioning poorly.  For the future, I'm guessing it will continue to live and grow bigger and more inefficient.  There will come a point in the future where it's just too unwieldy to do much of anything but by that time, I think the US will have other problems to worry about.
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in the long term end.
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Oh, I hope not!  I think we need to be able to "get away" from whatever government dominates, or it will come to dominate every facet of our lives.  Both George Orwell's "1984," (which was written in 1948, as I recall), and "Brave New World," and lots of other science fiction have made the point that a world-wide country is too much power too centralized.  It will not make way for differences that humans need to have to function.  \n\nThe big government concept is uniformity; the politics of scale.  That is a necessary part of doing things on a big scale, and why no more than absolutely necessary should be done by the federal government.  The smaller the unit of government, the bigger the opportunity to respond to real-world circumstances.  A neighborhood can get things done with only occasional assistance from a city government, which seldom needs to draw on the resources of the entire county, state, region.  Response to a major disaster takes a well-coordinated effort across state lines.  Even there, who has done the better job in Katrina response: the Red Cross and the rest of the private foundations, or the federal government?  I rest my case.
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It really depends cos it and go towards 2 extremes, segregation may die away, but those who have been under it alot may express it on others.
372743
I heard this argument before.  People were saying the Year 2000 was the end.\n\nI will ring your doorbell and run away!!!
76352
For this, look into ancient Greek history. That's the last time this planet saw true democracy. Now it's a hopeful face draped over a rotting corpse beneath. It's about time for something to change in the world. Something big. This planet needs an enema.
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Hopefully at that point some US states will break away.  If not, i would suggest a less socialist country.  Maybe one with very few people.  The more people there are, the more government becomes oppressive and paternalistic.  New Zealand might be a good option.  But they may take immigration seriously.  And then we're screwed.
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I hear you loud and clear.The social collapse is happening as we speak.It's just that at the rate it's happening it looks like slow motion.I think that one day we will be living in a different country and will have happened right in front of us.It's a gradual process.The new world order is for the world to be under one government.I don't know if that will ever happen.I do see that everyday Americans are powerless to do anything to stop what's happening.To me that's a scary thing.
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Definitely the future, sometime when war, crime and famine are no longer an issue.  And skycars, yeah, we gots to have skycars :-) they are long overdue!!!
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If this nation still exists in its present form, and if this nation is not flat broke, current trends will continue.  Voters will elect whoever promises the most goodies.  No one will care how, or when, we will pay for them.  That's part of the "....lack to commit to anything...." that you mentioned. \n\nWe have an opportunity to become like a Third World Country in 30 years.  That will go nicely with the American Presidency, which is really a constitutionally weak office.
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I think it's spiraling out of control.  There are just so many people on drugs, collecting welfare checks and having more babies to put into the system that it has become impossible to control.  We're doomed
410391
Time for a new job it sounds like.\n\nOr become a whistle-blower and hope for the best.....
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America no longer has a balanced government.  We have a unitary executive who modifies laws at will via signing statements and bizarre interpretations.  The real test will be to see what happens in 2008.
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I think it is going to get to where one day the police are not going to be able to do anything just like the teachers inthe schools these days. Same!
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Nope, I think in a few years the world will be run by them. Soon when you go to Burger King there will be no people behind the counter, it will all be computers, Think of it this way though all of your information is stored on computers, what happens if one day they just all die. Then we all would be in big trouble! So maybe we use the computer too much!!
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We shall see. Obviously the way it was wasn't working so hopefully this will be for the better/ Your words are so true civilian. The root of all of the countries problems is this division between the two parties and their unwillingness to cooperate with each other and it has fizzled down to the people. Sad but true.
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Hope this is not too late\n\nIt's fascinating - went from an imperial government to republic, lots of corruption, then to communist, famine, cultural revolution, then a little bit capital with the opening of the economy, more corrupt, and now the country is pretty stable.\n\nMillions upon millions of people died, values changed, people became selfless (when the govt promoted a man called Lei Feng) and now adays it's every man for himself no matter what happens to everyone else.