Re(1): 'Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality'. Clay Shirky, Nov 19, 2013
This is the most concise lesson learn document from the Obamacare failout I have read. However, it also presents the best discussion I have read on the topic of technical engineering for bureaucratic planners.
It hits my Favorite Posts...
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Friday, July 05, 2013
Photo Essay of Our Time
Pictures are worth a thousand words...
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This is the cheapest and easiest 2,000 words I have ever typed. I could have finished my annual 'Daughters of the American Revolution' paper in minutes rather than weeks when I was a dumb youth.
The end goal of Obamacare is 'Single Plier Healthcare'.
Enjoy the benefits...
Friday, May 17, 2013
He's Slipping!!!
President Obama's administration is proving that they are good stewards of your government's funds. The deficit has dropped $6 Billion since March.
But it is a start!!!
Behold!!!
| President Bush | President Obama | ||||
| Year | Deficit | Year | Deficit | ||
| 2001/02/01 - 2001/09/30 | $ -53,129 | 2009/02/01 - 2009/09/30 | $ 1,019,780 | ||
| 2002/09/30 | $ 158,520 | 2010/09/30 | $ 1,294,204 | ||
| 2003/09/30 | $ 374,219 | 2011/09/30 | $ 1,298,614 | ||
| 2004/09/30 | $ 412,553 | 2012/09/30 | $ 1,089,353 | ||
| 2005/09/30 | $ 318,615 | 2013/04/30 | $ 487,594 | ||
| 2006/09/30 | $ 247,698 | 2014/09/30 | |||
| 2007/09/30 | $ 162,833 | 2015/09/30 | |||
| 2008/09/30 | $ 454,806 | 2016/09/30 | |||
| 2008/10/01 - 2009/02/01 | $ 395,943 | 2016/10/01 - 2017/02/01 | |||
| Totals: | $ 2,472,058 | Totals: | $ 5,189,545 | ||
If this Administration continues to amaze me by reducing the FY2013 deficit by $6 Billion a month we will ONLY have an annual deficit of $457 Billion.
Take that you Bush Monkey Voters.
Except, that is still more than any of the BushMonkeyWhacker deficits. Any of them.
Friday, April 05, 2013
Obama 'The Great'
Amazing...
| President Bush | President Obama | ||||
| Year | Deficit | Year | Deficit | ||
| 2001/02/01 - 2001/09/30 | $ -53,129 | 2009/02/01 - 2009/09/30 | $ 1,019,780 | ||
| 2002/09/30 | $ 158,520 | 2010/09/30 | $ 1,294,204 | ||
| 2003/09/30 | $ 374,219 | 2011/09/30 | $ 1,298,614 | ||
| 2004/09/30 | $ 412,553 | 2012/09/30 | $ 1,089,353 | ||
| 2005/09/30 | $ 318,615 | 2013/02/28 | $ 493,954 | ||
| 2006/09/30 | $ 247,698 | 2014/09/30 | |||
| 2007/09/30 | $ 162,833 | 2015/09/30 | |||
| 2008/09/30 | $ 454,806 | 2016/09/30 | |||
| 2008/10/01 - 2009/02/01 | $ 395,943 | 2016/10/01 - 2017/02/01 | |||
| Totals: | $ 2,472,058 | Totals: | $ 5,195,905 | ||
It might be hard to fathom, but the Obama Administration borrows more in half a year than BushMcChimp's worst year. And, remember children, April Fools Day is 'Budget and Financial Management Day'!!!
And, folks, don't worry about that crappy employment number and all the LOPS (Low Output People) leaving the workforce for the golden fields of welfare returns!!!
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Obama Constantine XI's New Constantinople
Re(1): 'The Siege of Merimna', The Belmont Club, Richard Fernandez
Re(2): '1453', Richard Crowley
I hope Wretchard and I never write as bitter, as futile, as final a post as that of Sphrantzes after the fall of Constantinople:
However, Mr. Fernandez, the echo of power and greatness may yet give us the space and time to recover from our weakness. I know we have no money, a declining military, and an embarrassment of a State Department but we need only look a half decade past to realize a potential future of a half decade hence.
If we survived Carter I we can survive Carter II.
Re(2): '1453', Richard Crowley
I hope Wretchard and I never write as bitter, as futile, as final a post as that of Sphrantzes after the fall of Constantinople:
I am George Sphrantzes the pitiful First Lord of the Imperial Wardrobe, presently known by the monastic name Gregory. I wrote the following account of the events that occurred during my wretched life. It would have been fine for me not to have been born or to have perished in childhood. Since this did not happen, let it be known that I was born on Tuesday, August 30, 1401."But, Wretchard seems to think the time is near. The Barbarians are at the gate. Regretfully, it is a convincing argument. I can only envy his abode in Australia - so very far from the epic fiasco of a turning point that we Americans seem so destined to live through.
And now in the first months of 2013 the probes are coming the other way. Too many provocations which once would have drawn a vigorous response from Washington are now completely unanswered. The mighty US government, which once ruled by the power of its reputation alone seems inert and strangely immobile. Almost as if it were sleeping — or worse.
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It is a vacuum everywhere. The US government is being treated like a toothless, contemptible thing. It is easy to see why.
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But there can be no joy in this collapse even among the President’s worst political opponents. The weakness has exposed everyone who relies on the US for leadership and stability to great and proximate danger. For the challenges are certain to pick in pace as the hyenas converge from every point of the compass. All across the world people are wondering: what is holding the tent roof up?
However, Mr. Fernandez, the echo of power and greatness may yet give us the space and time to recover from our weakness. I know we have no money, a declining military, and an embarrassment of a State Department but we need only look a half decade past to realize a potential future of a half decade hence.
If we survived Carter I we can survive Carter II.
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