Here's another number for today: Ninety million. To be precise, that's ninety million dollars. It is a lot of cash, a big chunk of change, a huge pile of bills, or whatever you want to call it. Ninety million dollars is more than all but the ultra rich among us have. I doubt if there are even 5000 people in America with that kind of money.
Think what you could do with ninety million dollars.
1. You could feed a quarter of a million starving children for a year.
2. You could provide housing for 900 homeless families (at a cost of $100,000 apiece).
3. You could send president Obama and his family to Hawaii on vacation 18 times (at a cost to the taxpayers of $5 million each time.)
4. You could provide medical care to tens of thousands of veterans.
5. You could pay for health insurance for 30,000 people at a cost of $250 per month.
6. You could travel the world for decades in a style most people can only see in the movies.
Let's face it, there's a lot that can be done with ninety million dollars.
So what is the government doing with that cash? Here's the answer: the federal government hired a new company to fix the Obamacare exchange website and the amount to be paid (without extras) is ninety million dollars. Remember, this is the website that already cost over 600 million dollars so that it could be rolled out last October 1, while being totally unable to perform any of its functions. This is the website that has been the target of an enormous, round the clock effort costing tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars since October 1 so as to try to get the site able to work. This is the website that the White House has been telling America is now working properly and meeting expectations.
This expenditure leaves me with just a few questions:
1. If the website is working properly (as Jay Carney tells us from the White House), why is it necessary to spend another 90 million for further corrections?
2. What exactly is wrong with the current website that needs correcting?
3. If the contractor had to be fired, why did Obama wait until months after the disaster became apparent before acting?
4. If one only considers the 90 million to be spent on repairs and ignore the nearly one billion already spent on the website, does the Obamacare exchange website still keep the title as the world's most expensive internet site? (Hint: the answer is still yes.)
5. Why does America tolerate having incompetents running the government?
Think what you could do with ninety million dollars.
1. You could feed a quarter of a million starving children for a year.
2. You could provide housing for 900 homeless families (at a cost of $100,000 apiece).
3. You could send president Obama and his family to Hawaii on vacation 18 times (at a cost to the taxpayers of $5 million each time.)
4. You could provide medical care to tens of thousands of veterans.
5. You could pay for health insurance for 30,000 people at a cost of $250 per month.
6. You could travel the world for decades in a style most people can only see in the movies.
Let's face it, there's a lot that can be done with ninety million dollars.
So what is the government doing with that cash? Here's the answer: the federal government hired a new company to fix the Obamacare exchange website and the amount to be paid (without extras) is ninety million dollars. Remember, this is the website that already cost over 600 million dollars so that it could be rolled out last October 1, while being totally unable to perform any of its functions. This is the website that has been the target of an enormous, round the clock effort costing tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars since October 1 so as to try to get the site able to work. This is the website that the White House has been telling America is now working properly and meeting expectations.
This expenditure leaves me with just a few questions:
1. If the website is working properly (as Jay Carney tells us from the White House), why is it necessary to spend another 90 million for further corrections?
2. What exactly is wrong with the current website that needs correcting?
3. If the contractor had to be fired, why did Obama wait until months after the disaster became apparent before acting?
4. If one only considers the 90 million to be spent on repairs and ignore the nearly one billion already spent on the website, does the Obamacare exchange website still keep the title as the world's most expensive internet site? (Hint: the answer is still yes.)
5. Why does America tolerate having incompetents running the government?
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