Four things the U.S. government did faster than building the Obamacare website.
Four things the U.S. government did faster than building the Obamacare website.
I’ll give you a hint: None of them were done during Obama’s administration. And all of them were far more challenging that writing the software for a webpage.
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Four things the U.S. government did faster than building the Obamacare website.
I’ll give you a hint: None of them were done during Obama’s administration. And all of them were far more challenging that writing the software for a webpage.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I think all four events had a unified population behind the effort, in the case of Obama care the public has largely been against this legislation. That fact does not answer questions about the horrible rollout debacle, this government has proven over and over how inept they can be. Maybe its a good thing the republicans backed down on trying to get a one year delay on the personal mandate, it seems that once they backed off, the rollout began in earnest and the dems said wait a minute, maybe we should delay, they have egg on their face, the rollout proved that they don’t have a clue as how to fix this mess. In reality it can never be fixed!
With regard to the Manhatten project, the public at large was most likely not aware. Could we as a nation duplicate things like the Hoover dam and the moon shot? I think with the bureaucratization of American government, that none of these feats could be possible as too many chiefs have a say as to how, what, when and where things happen, as an example the space launch system, congress built a monster that does nothing it wants it to do, is over budget and may never fly!
Remember when it was ‘our’ government, and not ‘the’ government?
Point taken!
When that bridge collapsed a few years back in Minneapolis-St.Paul an entirely new bridge was built within a year. The state DOT and EPA et al gave virtual carte blanche to the builders. So it can be done if government gets out of the way.
A positive prediction for a change in regards to this offence to the Constitution.
(The government, specifically the American government, can not mandate that an individual buy health insurance! I don’t care what the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court says!)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenhayward/2013/11/11/obamacare-will-be-repealed-well-in-advance-of-the-2014-elections/
It seems that the government is capable of performing the items that are stated in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. You know, the only things that the federal government is *supposed* to do. Specifically:
“8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts…
“11: To declare War…
“12: To raise and support Armies…
“13: To provide and maintain a Navy…
“14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces…
“15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions…
“16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States…”
They really seem to do poorly with other tasks, not allowed by the Constitution, such as:
The “war” on poverty (we’re still losing that one).
The Education Department (US education is worse now than when that department was created)
Social Insecurity (will still run out of money)
Medicare (ditto)
and, of course, Obamacare (a money loser after the first ten years, starting almost four years ago).