Really, is that why?
A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office.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The public is getting a bad return on its tax dollars because government workers are operating with outdated technologies, Orszag said in a statement that kicked off a summit between Obama and dozens of corporate CEOs.
And of course, the solution is more spending and taxes.
So we need to spend tax dollars on new computers for everyone? What they need to do is cut expenses and focus on their core purposes as enumerated in the Constitution. Let the state governments or the people do all this other stuff.
Isn’t this the way with all corporations?
And of course, the solution is more spending and taxes.
No, I have a better idea. They should ask the computer fairy to come bring them thousands of new computers for free! Wouldn’t that be great???
#1 Yes, we’re aware libertarians want to return the government to its pre-industrial revolution size and function. (That’s one of the many reasons libertarians are considered nutballs.)
Can you say “UNIX and open source”?
So this is what the dumbass information czar is supposed to do? Amazing!
#5 Actually, that’s you, lefty loons. Where the feudal lord collects taxes from everyone for anything and tell everyone what to do. No one should dare contradict the feudal lord. Sheeple!
IT spending is continuous and forever. Doesn’t matter if it is government or private sector.
The only real difference is in the private sector if your company can not “afford” to provide modern functioning IT equipment you are in the beginning stages of “going out of business”. In the government when their equipment is old, outdated, and doesn’t function well the “mission” suffers, the costs go up, and employees become inefficient.
One can discuss the value of having or not having any agency in the government. But does anyone really believe that it makes sense to pay people to due a job dependent on functioning and efficient computer systems and then not provide, maintain, and update the computer systems?
Sounds to me like he is justifying his position. IOW, he is a creating a problem to justify his solution.
#4, Pre-Industrial? Hardly. How about Pre-Fed, instead. It was the industrial revolution that turned America into the power it was at the turn of the century. And you know that you troll.
#8 You back again LL? Ah yes, the glory years of the late 1800s/early 1900s, the height of the robber baron era. When people worked 6 days, 14 hours a day, dangerous workplaces, fired if you were injured on the job, horrible air and water pollution, owing our souls to the company store, et cetera, et cetera. The glory days for nutball libertarians.
We need more binary skip-logic COBOL web-enabled turboencabulators.
Then we’ll be efficient!
#9 Only a lefty loon like you can protest on other your own faults & shortcomings. Sheeple!
I prefer having my civil servants work on computers that *cannot* view youtube videos.
#12 Are you on your computer at work brm?
My county’s internet access to the public service front-ends do not exist. There is no electronic application for food stamps. No auto deposit for unemployment. No access to change you address on health care records.
Here they could spend some IT money and gain value for the citizens but that would provide easy access to health care, housing, food stamps, mental health care, child care and adult care. I am sure that the county board of stupidvisors will never allow that.
I spent 9 hours in line yesterday and today attempting to complete the paper application for food stamps. I have to go back Tuesday to wait in line again. They now demand proof of citizenship beyond drivers license and DD-214.
The “golden state” is covered in shit and the stink is never going wash off.
#11 little pedro! insults you make unintelligible! english speak good to make your point across! sheeple!
Sparky,
The Golden State doesn’t want any poor, ugly, hard working, smart, thrifty, literate, reflective people to reside inside its wounderous border. They do what they can to drive them out. Let them have each other.
#15 Sorry Fido, it seems that my constant uncovering of your agenda hidden inside your sheepish rants bothers you.
I’m so sorry, but if only you were an actual thinking person with at least an upper double digit IQ (which I know is hard to find in sheeple like you), I wouldn’t need to be so harsh on you.
#9, You mean the same Robber Barons who were directly responsible for getting the Fed started?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
You really need to read up on your history.
Read up on Leland Stanford, a governor and senator, who had laws passed in CA to prevent competition against his railroad.
And on James J. Hill who built the “Great Northern Railroad.”
This sounds like my work place. Two to three cycles behind in software and equipment. The servers I am working with have Pentium Pro CPUs and are running NETWARE! Our stuff is so old the only place we can find parts is eBay!
sounds like m$ shills are hard at work for aquiring our tax dollars for their outdated technology.