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A WORLD TOUR OF COUNTRIES WITH GOVERNMENTS MORE FUNCTIONAL THAN OURS! FIRST STOP: ARMENIA
Vanity Fair
Oct 1 2913
By Juli Weiner
Armenia!
Welcome back to Federal Government Shutdown Day on VF.com! While
the United States government may be a crippled shadow of its former
self due to Congress's inability to perform the one task it is
constitutionally mandated to perform, the governments of other
countries are doing just fine, comparatively. From Azerbaijan
to Zimbabwe, let's take a look at some nations whose governments
are technically more functional than ours, if "functionality" is
interpreted in its most literal sense. We'll explore one country a
day until our own government reopens.
So grab your passports! And if you don't already have your passport,
that's too bad, because the people working in the passport office
have just been furloughed!
First stop: Armenia!
Welcome to Armenia, or should we say "Õ¸Õ²Õ"Õ¸O~BÕµÕ¶"? Or should we
say, "Did you know the lawyer and public intellectual Raphael Lemkin
had to invent the word 'genocide' to accurately describe certain rather
unfortunate evens in early 20th century Armenia history?" Another
fun fact: "Õ¸Õ²Õ"Õ¸O~BÕµÕ¶" means "welcome" in Armenian!
The Armenian government is a "presidential representative democratic
republic." Its president, Serzh Sarkisyan, is part of the Republican
Party of Armenia, which, like the Republican Party of America, is
the party of oligarchs, militarism, and silly yet effective propaganda.
Its slogan in the 2012 elections: "Believe In Order to Change." Barack
Obama's slogan in 2008, you'll recall, was "Change We Can Believe In."
Is the Armenian Republican Party's slogan just a badly translated
restatement of Obama's slogan? Let's translate "Change We Can Believe
In" to Armenia, then translate that Armenian back to English and see
what we get:
And . . . no. "Believe In Order to Change" is Armenia's own thing.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/10/a-world-tour-of-countries-with-governments-more-functional-than-ours-first-stop-armenia
Vanity Fair
Oct 1 2913
By Juli Weiner
Armenia!
Welcome back to Federal Government Shutdown Day on VF.com! While
the United States government may be a crippled shadow of its former
self due to Congress's inability to perform the one task it is
constitutionally mandated to perform, the governments of other
countries are doing just fine, comparatively. From Azerbaijan
to Zimbabwe, let's take a look at some nations whose governments
are technically more functional than ours, if "functionality" is
interpreted in its most literal sense. We'll explore one country a
day until our own government reopens.
So grab your passports! And if you don't already have your passport,
that's too bad, because the people working in the passport office
have just been furloughed!
First stop: Armenia!
Welcome to Armenia, or should we say "Õ¸Õ²Õ"Õ¸O~BÕµÕ¶"? Or should we
say, "Did you know the lawyer and public intellectual Raphael Lemkin
had to invent the word 'genocide' to accurately describe certain rather
unfortunate evens in early 20th century Armenia history?" Another
fun fact: "Õ¸Õ²Õ"Õ¸O~BÕµÕ¶" means "welcome" in Armenian!
The Armenian government is a "presidential representative democratic
republic." Its president, Serzh Sarkisyan, is part of the Republican
Party of Armenia, which, like the Republican Party of America, is
the party of oligarchs, militarism, and silly yet effective propaganda.
Its slogan in the 2012 elections: "Believe In Order to Change." Barack
Obama's slogan in 2008, you'll recall, was "Change We Can Believe In."
Is the Armenian Republican Party's slogan just a badly translated
restatement of Obama's slogan? Let's translate "Change We Can Believe
In" to Armenia, then translate that Armenian back to English and see
what we get:
And . . . no. "Believe In Order to Change" is Armenia's own thing.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/10/a-world-tour-of-countries-with-governments-more-functional-than-ours-first-stop-armenia