Laugh of the Day: White House Says Bad Government is Due to Old Computers
Having worked with government computers for the past 15 years, I know for a fact that the White House Budget Director’s claim that old computers are the cause for ineffective government is a complete lie. He might as well have released a statement that said, “Can a brutha get an upgrade?”
From the Hill here:
A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office.
This startling admission came Thursday from Peter Orszag, who manages the federal bureaucracy for President Barack Obama.
The public is getting a bad return on its tax dollars because government workers are operating with outdated technologies, Orszag said in a statement that kicked off a summit between Obama and dozens of corporate CEOs.
“Twenty years ago, people who came to work in the federal government had better technology at work than at home,” said Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget. “Now that’s no longer the case.
“The American people deserve better service from their government, and better return for their tax dollars.”
Government is ineffective because they have a bloated bureaucracy, not because they aren’t running Windows 7. Any delays in the upgrade programs is because these bloated bureaucracies are so slow to adopt new technology due to painfully slow certification and accreditation requirements laid out by NIST.
So what the Obama administration is saying is that now that they have crammed an unwanted healthcare system down our throats, they should have better computers at work than you have at home. Of course such an upgrade would cost billions when its not necessary, but that’s what democrats do.
And to fix this issue, they are inviting the CEO’s of Facebook and Craigslist to help out- Two sites that are blocked by most government filters. Yeah, let’s see what kind of advice that produces for our tax dollars.
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