Proving once again that if you want something done wrong, and preferably at massive cost overruns, then just leave it to the government, moments ago news broke that the main IT contractor behind the embarrassment that is healthcare.gov - CGI Federal - has been fired. Who could possibly foresee this? Well, anyone who had actually done some diligence on the clusterfuck that is CGI Federal, and which as WaPo profiled some time ago, "is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show." Make that 21. "A year before CGI Group acquired AMS in 2004, AMS settled a lawsuit brought by the head of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which had hired the company to upgrade the agency’s computer system. AMS had gone $60 million over budget and virtually all of the computer code it wrote turned out to be useless, according to a report by a U.S. Senate committee." Sounds like the perfect people to hire in order to make a complete disaster out of the Obamacare portal - almost as if by design.
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5 comments:
People connections and kickbacks. That's how they continue to get the jobs.
Follow the money. The money will all filter back to the DNC somewhere.
The democrats are filthy, stinking, thieving bastards!
Duh ....it all wasted money anyway...scary since its all loans ...Folow the money to the FED..that den of thieves is our biggest source of the problem ..both parties a close second...
And so who is hired in their place? Probably just the next cronie in line...
$292 million is a lot of money. I would have screwed this thing up for a mere $100 mil. Because I didn't get the call we all lost...
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