I DON'T WORK FOR YOU!

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was quoted during a tour of one of the Obamacare call centers today (responding to those in Congress and Citizens here in America who call for her resignation), "I don't work for those who are calling for me to resign". Well Ms. Sebelius ... I am one of those Americans whose hard earned tax dollars pay your salary and I think you and the HHS employees in charge of this contract and the firm you hired to build a failed website for over $300 million dollars should be held accountable for the dismal failure ... all under your watch!
Under your failed leadership your staff had three years to implement the site and everyone else in America (with any sense) feels you have dropped the ball on the launch of the Healthcare.gov website.

IT'S JUST A WEBSITE!

 

 

The dismal failures profiled by the Obama Administration as "technical glitches" are not the most absurd issue here. And I'm not surprised White House Press Secretary Jay Carney deflected concerns from both Liberal and Conservative Media outlets and continues to ignore and avoid any discussion of accountability.

What is a huge concern is we are not firing the firm who failed. Why not? You know in the private sector had a contractor failed in this manner, the customary remedy would be to make good on the technical guarantee and complete the project to the clients total satisfaction. What is the most astounding and irresponsible remedy that Sebelius proposes is to continue to pay the contractors to fix the site. It's not their money ... they just spend, spend, spend ... and don't give a damn if it costs more!

AND WHO DO THEY BLAME?

  



Finally, the firms that are responsible for this dismal failure were called to testify today to defend their website architecture and answer questions from a host of Congressmen grandstanding to give the appearance that they are concerned. Ha! This is the group who the day after the Government Shutdown approved $1.7B to Pakistan (the country who sheltered Osama Bin Laden)

Who did they blame? The government! Wait a minute. You fail at a job that you were paid over $300 million dollars. A government that is willing to pay you more to fix what you screwed up. And you blame your client? And the most bazaar element is that the client is willing to move forward as long as nobody is held accountable and nobody reveals who is really to blame ... The Obama and the Liberal Agenda. This debacle should make you mad as hell.

 

In 2014 Get the Scoundrels OUT!

 

Gary S. DeMoss

IN MY RIGHT MIND

 

Darwinian Award Nominee

 

And the Nominee Is ...

I can't make this stuff up ... really!

This past weekend I was one of the technical staff on the television crew covering the Baltimore Ravens football game with the Packers. The game wasn't going that well and the rain had just ended so the rest of the day was actually looking good ... except for the Ravens offense.
However, on our lunch break the generator operator came into the tent and sadly reported that his new IPad had been stolen right out of his truck. What is rather sad ... is that the crook made off with the computer with dozen's of police surrounding our location, over 50,000 football fans and within 100 yards of our TV set erected outside one of the main entrances to the stadium. Sad but true. We all thought our colleague would never see that IPad again.

Then this sad story takes an unpredictable turn. What we learned was that it is common on most IPad's that a warning message appears on the screen if you turn it on without the correct password. The note gives the person in front of the screen the owners contact information. Low and behold, within a hour the thief calls our colleague and tells him he has found his IPad and will meet him later at 9PM, "cause he can't leave the game until its over." Our colleague makes the arrangements and then comes into the tent to tell us the good news. Somehow our colleague reconsiders and decides to call the police. They come to the lunch tent and he tells the two Baltimore Police officers the story. The two officers chuckle to themselves but in a serious tone they tell our colleague in no uncertain terms ... "you are not going to meet this guy. It's a setup!"
So the two policemen wisely advise our colleague to call the thief back and tell him you are going to meet him at 2:15pm and that, "they will send an undercover officer in your place to retrieve the IPad."

Our colleague calls the thief back and describes the change in plans and says, "the boss is letting him take a taxi over to meet him." The thief agrees and then cautiously says, "you aren't going to send the cops here are you?" Our colleague replies, "Of course not!"
An hour later as the story is told by the Baltimore Police officers, "the undercover officer drove up to the meeting place and the suspect, along with three other thugs were waiting for your colleague." Further, "that the guy is a common thug, known to be a petty theft and has stolen dozens of items just like this one."

Like most criminals this guy and his thugs had nothing better to do than to steal and attempt to harm innocent law-abiding citizens. If they would simply use that energy to do something productive they might just turn out to be model citizens.

Our colleague was going to be jumped, robbed, beat-up and perhaps worse - a senseless victim of a violent crime. In this case the advice and work of the Baltimore Police Department and the careful work of these two officers probably saved our colleagues life! Thank you men!

So I guess there are several lessons to learn by this event ...

Don't leave any valuable item in plain site even if there are thousands of "good folks" around.

Call the police and don't try to be a hero or become a victim.

If you are a thief ... don't trust your victim!

This guy gets my vote for the Darwinian Award for 2013


IN MY RIGHT MIND
Gary S DeMoss

Brinkmanship - WHAT CAN WE DO?

Brinkmanship 2.0

So here we are again.
Back to political brinkmanship on Capitol Hill.
No continuing resolution and no debt ceiling increase.
Millions of Americans are affected.
Congress and the President refuse to take responsibility.

What is different about the current impasse is that unlike the seventeen other Debt Ceiling crisis' the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, the Commander in Chief is unwilling to negotiate.

Unwilling to negotiate?

Yes, both President Obama (37% approval rating) and Senator Harry Reid (7% approval rating) have said repeatedly they will not negotiate.

WHAT?

Isn't that what a leader does? They negotiate and make the deal work for both parties. In most settings in corporate American boardrooms, members of organizations sit down around a conference table, they hash out their differences, find common ground and develop a solution that meets every ones best interest. That happens every day in America.
We pay our law makers on Capitol Hill a pretty good salary to do their jobs. And what do they do? They go on vacation knowing full well the CR and the Debt Ceiling was looming. How dare they! Then they return and blame each other for the crisis.

The Blame game continues!

Regardless of what side of the isle you are on something must be done to solve the impasse on Capitol Hill.

My suggestion to solve the debt ceiling crisis and the budget battle? This fall and for the mid-term elections in 2014 you and me ... all of us - can make a difference. Fire every damn one of them. No matter the party affiliation, no matter the state, no matter their record, let every single one of them know how we feel about their performance - or lack there of.

GET THE SCOUNDRELS OUT!

VOTE AGAINST EVERY INCUMBENT ON CAPITOL HILL IN 2014

Gary De Moss
IN MY RIGHT MIND