White House budget director blames old computers for ineffective government

A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office.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 The public is getting a bad return on its tax dollars because government workers are operating with outdated technologies, Orszag said in a statement that kicked off a summit between Obama and dozens of corporate CEOs. “Twenty years ago, people who came to work in the federal government had better technology at work than at home,” said Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget. “Now that’s no longer the case. “The American people deserve better service from their government, and better return for their tax dollars.” The White House release that included Orszag’s comments said one “specific source” of ineffective and inefficient government is the huge technology gap between the public and private sectors that results in billions of dollars in waste, slow and inadequate customer service and a lack of transparency about how dollars are spent.

Thank god!  They finally figured out why they can spend trillions of dollars, under the guise of “transparency” and can’t seem to figure out where exactly 780 BILLION was spent. IT WAS THE COMPUTERS!!!! Yet, they are able to spit out thousands of pages of a Healthcare Bill on those MIGHTY word processing computers.  And, they have absolutely NO PROBLEM when it comes to the IRS computers that somehow are able to track trillions of tax dollars that are stolen from us.  Dude.  Get a Dell.