This one is just for fun....

Government is like a Computer: A 3rd grade essay by a 40 year old.

At first, when it’s new, it runs fine, only outputting whatever it is you input. Soon enough though, a few extra programs get installed to make life a little easier for you. That’s fine, since you have to input less and you get the same output as before, and you barely notice the hit on resources.
But then something amazing happens, more programs get installed to do more of your input work for you, and output grows exponentially! This seems awesome, but at the heart the core is running rather inefficiently, so you upgrade and make the computer bigger and more powerful, so it can handle all the output more easily. Now, with all the new power, the computer calls for internal maintenance programs to help itself run smoother. You don’t want to upset the output, so you let it put the programs into place. Now things seem to be running better than ever! And then….a virus! There’s tons of output, but none of it is really what you wanted, you install more programs to handle the corrupted sections of the computer. These programs make you feel better about your security, but really they can’t deal with the corrupted parts, they are too well connected to the operating system, and the security program just runs in the background, draining resources, once in a while alerting you but not really effectively dealing with the problems which seem to keep re-appearing.
Finally, you decide to actually look into what’s running and you are amazed at all the start-up services and programs that run in background, most of which you never installed knowingly, nor would you have wanted to. So you uncheck all the boxes for the services and programs that you don’t want, but hold on, those services and programs wont stop running! The computer informs you that these programs and services are already running and can’t be stopped without a restart! So you restart the damn thing, something you should do every few years anyway, and it seems that your choices in the checkboxes have helped somewhat, but those programs are still there, just not running at the moment. As soon as another seemingly unrelated program gets installed, it automatically restarts those programs you unchecked!

So what do you do? You go out and buy a bigger, more powerful one. Maybe instead you should re-format the old one and start from scratch.