The Top 40

Its not just cash for clunkers or the Obamacare project, it is everything the Federal Government does. There have been lots of Federal Technology programs go off the rails. Even the military is not immune, just look at the F35 program.

Here is another example:

"Delays, problems plague transition to satellite-based air traffic control system" by Joan Lowy, Associated Press, October 31, 2013
http://www.startribune.com/nation/229999991.html

"After a decade of work and billions of dollars spent, the modernization of the U.S. air traffic control system is in trouble. The ambitious and complex technology program dubbed NextGen has encountered unforeseen difficulties at almost every turn. ... By shifting from radar-based navigation and radio communications — technologies rooted in the first half of the 20th century — to satellite-based navigation and digital communications, it would handle three times as many planes by 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration promised.

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"NextGen was originally forecast to cost $40 billion, split between government and industry, and to be completed by 2025. But an internal FAA report estimates it will cost three times that much and take 10 years longer to complete, Scovel said. FAA officials have largely stopped talking about end dates and completion costs as the technologies that make up NextGen continue to evolve. The agency currently spends about $800 million a year on the program."

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There have been lots of others. The problem is that the Federal Government is a very blunt instrument with which to solve problems.

But, you knew that.

BULLSHIT, nothing the government ever does slows up or involves any time from a business.

Republican Voter: Well then I don't need to speak up to attack ObamaCare or defend liberty because some day, some way, lifelong liberals will notice one of the 809 liberal failures and suddenly just know to stop being liberals. Glad that's done with, now I can return to my 120 hour per week hobby of trying to make my lawn nice enough nobody can ever think I'm not holding up my end of the Citizenship contract. Somebody let me know if a liberal somewhere calls me a bad name, I will go hide in a cave. I couldn't take another breath if a liberal called me a name.

Why can't the gov't use the same folks who built Obama's campaign website? That train never skipped the tracks, not even for foreign donors.

I have a friend who works in the used car business (they're not all scumbags) and he talked about this when it was going on. At first it was a big sales boost, but then it hurt them big time because it took months to get paid off and the number and quality of used cars dropped off precipitously. All the used car prices went up significantly after that debacle.