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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

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