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Batboy2/75 wrote:Apple and Google would have been smart enough to say no thanks.
This is a big factor in so much that the government does. I would love to know more about how they decided to award these contracts. It smells like the "pork first trickle up" method of project management.

That is, it doesn't make much sense when you look at it as a software development project, but it makes total sense when you see it as a means of transferring money from taxpayers, to political supporters / cronies, and ultimately back to politicians.

I would assume that unless the people awarded could be seen as sole sources - the only organization in the world fit to deliver - this all went out to bid. Which is a sham. Naive people think that if there is a bidding process, there can be no shenanigans. You have to be a grown up and accept the fact that the vast majority of politicians trade in influence. This is why people spend millions to get a job that pays what $175,000 a year. Awarding work to low bid doesn't get you any kickbacks, hard or soft. So just accept that circumventing the bid process in a million creative ways is business as usual.

One of the ways of getting rid of your cronies' pesky competition - the people that may underbid them - is making shitty bid specifications, RFPS, etc. It is very easy to make an RFP that no sane contractor would bid on. If the specs are written so that the contractors either take a huge amount of risk or bid an enormous price, nobody's going to bid.

That's why the smart may stay away. Most have been around the block enough to see the hand writing on the wall, smell a rat, and move along. The insider bids because he knows he has an ace in the hole that limits his risk - he knows that his connection will see to it that he isn't held accountable to that spec. He'll get paid what he bids, and he'll get paid more for changes and fixes - even if they were part of his contract! And he'll pass some back to the connection, through kickbacks, contributions, and political support. Everybody gets rich, except of course the poor fuckers that are footing the bill for this party - the taxpayers.

From what I gather this project wasn't awarded to one contractor, it was piecemealed, and the work was divided in a sloppy and haphazard manner. This doesn't make ANY sense from a software development project perspective - it's an absolute disaster - but it makes PERFECT sense from a "divvy up the obamacare pork" perspective.
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First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.


Yeah, the contract wasn't even put up for bidding, they just gave it to those buffoons. And what's more, that company has NEVER successfully delivered a final product on ANY of their projects...

That's just ludicrous...

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Monkeyshines.

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Kazuya Mishima wrote:Monkeyshines.
Frankly, YES.

This is typical liberal "'A' For Effort" bullshit, with a healthy dose of "who knows who" and nepotism.

Let's not give the job to the most qualified person, let's give it to the person who we feel, in our heart of hearts deserves it the most!

I write code for a living. Good code, that has to be bullet proof because at any given time it can be running across upwards of five thousand servers at a time, collecting data and performing diagnostics and compiling reports. And I have built web-apps, and I have also built the back-end databases that those web apps use for data storage.

It isn't fucking rocket science... Collect data in a secure manner from user. Take data, parse it and check it, then, put that data into a form that the other application's API can read and make sense of, and BOOM, give it to the other application.

It's not a difficult job.

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And the hits keep on coming.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/doctors-b ... le/2540272

Healthcare is kind of worthless if there aren't any doctors. A nurse practitioner can't perform surgery or anything beyond check ups etc. As one of the article commentors stated, maybe California can hand out doctor degrees to illegal aliens.
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What's this?


The usual incompetence and lies. So bad, that even the Democratic propaganda wing calls bull shit.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... 00767.html
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"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is...He knows how perceptive hs is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them, and make sense out of them, and I think he has never been really challenged intellectually. I mean, he's the kind of guy you'd hate in law school, who would pick up the book the night before the final, read it, and ace the test. So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but someone with extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy."

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Tell me I'm not the only one who is repulsed by all this Worlds Smartest Man shit.

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The Ginger Beard Man wrote:Tell me I'm not the only one who is repulsed by all this Worlds Smartest Man shit.
He is at best the second smartest, thank you very much.
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Turdacious wrote:
"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is...He knows how perceptive hs is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them, and make sense out of them, and I think he has never been really challenged intellectually. I mean, he's the kind of guy you'd hate in law school, who would pick up the book the night before the final, read it, and ace the test. So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but someone with extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy."

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So, Obama proves in a very big way what the social psychologists have been harping on for the last 10-15 years...it's not about IQ and talent, so much as it is about grit, work ethic, and character.

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It isn't a huge leap of logic of genius proportions to figure out that people will like you if you give them free stuff like cell phones.

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Kazuya Mishima wrote:So, Obama proves in a very big way what the social psychologists have been harping on for the last 10-15 years...it's not about IQ and talent, so much as it is about grit, work ethic, and character.
Contrast him to the presidents generally thought of as the greatest of the last century-- FDR and Reagan. Both were considered intellectual lightweights. Contrast him with LBJ and Clinton-- both were old school retail politicians who could get legislation and budgets passed. Hoover, on the other hand, was considered a genius.
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Under Section 9007, the only step left to enforce the law was for the Treasury Secretary or his designees at the IRS to issue specific regulations instructing hospitals like Yale--New Haven how to comply. Without the instructions, the hospitals have nothing to comply with.

Then Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, or current Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, could have written the regulations with his staff the day after the law was signed, and there is nothing John Boehner or Ted Cruz could have done about it. After posting the rules in the Federal Register and a brief comment period, the regulations would have taken effect.

Instead, the rules were not drafted and published in the Federal Register until June 26, 2012--more than two years after Obamacare was passed. And that was just an initial draft called "Proposed Regulations." The American Hospital Association then complained--no surprise--that the drafted rules were too prescriptive.

Nothing has happened since. No final rules have been issued. So there are still no restraints on hospital bill collections or chargemaster charges for the neediest patients.
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Obamacare promised universal coverage enforced by an individual mandate. With its passage (with the support of only one party), we can rest assured that our national shame and the wanton loss of human life are behind us. What else was the $1 trillion cost for?

Supporters breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court declared the individual mandate constitutional under the federal government's taxation power, but its decision required the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to recalculate Obamacare's effects on health care costs, the deficit and the number of insured, which it did last July.

The shocking conclusion: When President Obama leaves office in 2016, there will be 30 million uninsured Americans. Six years later, there will still be 30 million uninsured Americans. Where is the promised universal coverage?
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The Ginger Beard Man wrote:Tell me I'm not the only one who is repulsed by all this Worlds Smartest Man shit.
Being the World's Smartest Man wouldn't make someone the Country's Best Leader. If it did, we wouldn't hold elections, but IQ tests.

BUT, if Obama was such a smart guy, wouldn't his Administration have found a way to release his university & law school grades?
We learned Bush, Gore & Kerry's GPAs, didn't we?
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Grades are racist.

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The Ginger Beard Man wrote:Grades are racist.
Well played, Sir.

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Day 72 and no sign of the usual Liberal apologists in this thread.


http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/hilarious- ... e-website/

Don't worry though. The same fools that created the mess will get down to the bottom of this fiasco.

"Top Men" are on the job.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/ ... ucker.html

Do not question Brother Obama or the IRS Stasi will pay you a visit!

Where are all the leftist cunts on the abuse of the IRS? I wonder what logical twists and gymnastics they'll use to explain away how the current administration uses the IRS as a weapon against their political enemies? What mealy mouth weasel excuses will they make? Fucking Cunts.
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TWO months into Obamacare, only a small fraction of Oklahoma's uninsured citizens has managed to select an insurance plan on the federal exchange site.

According to the Obama administration, just 1,673 Oklahomans chose exchange plans in October and November. That accounts only for those who selected a plan — not those who actually purchased insurance. The administration refuses to release the latter figure, which suggests that it's far lower.

Even if every single one of those 1,673 individuals actually bought insurance, Obamacare still will have barely made a dent in Oklahoma's uninsured rate. Census data showed 695,537 Oklahomans had no health insurance in 2011. The administration reports only around 15,000 Oklahomans have applied online for insurance (without necessarily selecting policies), representing roughly 30,000 people once dependents are included.

So the number of uninsured Oklahomans has barely budged since October. In fact, the number of uninsured citizens may have increased because of Obamacare.
http://newsok.com/obamacare-failing-to- ... le/3914288

W's fault, this is clearly.
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Affordable Care Act of 2010. Estate recovery will be forced on millions of people who might have otherwise gone without insurance. Why? Because the plan is that millions more Americans have health insurance. That would be accomplished by expanding Medicaid and implementing premium assistance (subsidies). When a person is found to be eligible for Medicaid, they will be automatically enrolled into their state's Medicaid program. Those forced into Medicaid will, due to the federal law, also be forced into estate recovery. Their estates will be partly or fully taken over by the federal or state government when they die.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/1 ... nsequences

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Dgtyim64Q[/youtube]

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Microsoft executive brought in to fix Obamacare website.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/17/b ... ov-rescue/

Let's see.

1) married a Democrat Congresswoman; check!
2) worked for a tech monopoly known for deploying software riddled with security holes and fucked up code; check!

This should end well. I assume the DelBenes plans on retiring after this fiasco. I'm surprised they couldn't't find some Six Sigma Clown at GE to take the helm.
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