Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan famously said “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Clever and pithy. Like the term originating in the midst of World War II when chaos was more reliable than not, SNAFU [situation normal/all f**ked up] works with Reagan’s comment–government is unreliable by its nature.
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