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All the other bureaucratic positions made out of thin air have worked out so well for the American people so far that I just can't wait to have my life more regulated in new and interesting ways. How exciting! I'm always so happy when we finally give power to a single individual to let us know the best way to spend other people's money. Life is so complicated with people arguing over better ways to do things with their products and services and all that rubbish. I'm genuinely looking forward to VictoryOS and the new VictoryBook laptop that the Ministry of Technology has in store for us. They will likely be leagues ahead of all the other horribly sub-par technologies we're forced to put up with today.

Personally, I think our new Chief Tyranny Officer should be someone who has the following qualities:

  - extensive experience forcing other people to do their bidding
  - no regard for civil liberties
  - a deeply flawed understanding of technology
  - passionate interest in maintaining and extending her power
  - desire to get filthy rich by propping up companies and providing subsidies to suffering industries

Well I guess we can just put about every name of Congress and the Senate in a hat. In fact let me just reflect that it is truly amazing to think that we live in a time when almost all our representatives share such patriotic qualities. 2009 is going to be great!