Dan and I were watching the FSU/Auburn national championship game tonight and along came an IBM commercial that had us both looking at each other and laughing. We'd just watched a news report of Jay Carney (Pres. Obama's press person) doing his daily briefing and he told the reporters that they didn't have any information about the 2.1 million people supposedly signed up for Obamacare. They couldn't possibly know any of the statistics about the ages, locations, whether they were people who had pre-existing health conditions, etc. He seemed seriously perturbed that someone expected them to have such specific details.
Why should anyone be surprised? After all, we've spent 500 million on a website (that was as of October 1st when it was supposed to be accessible for everyone to sign up. Who knows what we've spent since then). But maybe the intent in that spending was to help Michelle's friends from Canada get richer. Maybe there wasn't any real interest in creating a website people could use--or that could give you statistics in 15 seconds.
Maybe they should have hired IBM. And created some American jobs. Hmmm. What an idea. More jobs, less money we'd need to spend on unemployment for the people who can't find jobs.
Why should anyone be surprised? After all, we've spent 500 million on a website (that was as of October 1st when it was supposed to be accessible for everyone to sign up. Who knows what we've spent since then). But maybe the intent in that spending was to help Michelle's friends from Canada get richer. Maybe there wasn't any real interest in creating a website people could use--or that could give you statistics in 15 seconds.
Maybe they should have hired IBM. And created some American jobs. Hmmm. What an idea. More jobs, less money we'd need to spend on unemployment for the people who can't find jobs.
