the total earnings of 300 working American lifetimes just tossed aside like it was nothing.The Government Did WHAT With $300 Million? | The American Spectator
Do we really want to know?
It’s hard to say with precision how much the average American earns in a lifetime, but $1 million is a “not unreasonable number.” So said Andrew Biggs, an economist for the American Enterprise Institute who has done a lot of work with Social Security numbers, when he called me back in late April.
Biggs was the third economist contacted that day. The first two said lifetime American earnings was somehow highly specialized information. I kept dialing for data because it was necessary to quantify the disbelief and rage.
As reported in the last “Oregon Trial” dispatch, it’s not only possible but likely that the state of Oregon scuttled the launch of a functional Obamacare website for political reasons, after wasting $300 million in federal taxpayer dollars.
That’s right: the total earnings of 300 working American lifetimes just tossed aside like it was nothing. This happened because a corrupt governor badly wanted to win reelection for a fourth term. He pulled it off last November, and lasted all of 38 days of the new term before resigning.
According to IT contractor Oracle, the site was ready to launch. The state chose to cancel the initiative and kick Oregonians into the federal insurance exchange instead, thus opening the subsidies of about 100,000 Oregonians up to a Supreme Court challenge this summer.
The government also decided to sue Oracle — which counter sued, of course. ...
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Biggs was the third economist contacted that day. The first two said lifetime American earnings was somehow highly specialized information. I kept dialing for data because it was necessary to quantify the disbelief and rage.
As reported in the last “Oregon Trial” dispatch, it’s not only possible but likely that the state of Oregon scuttled the launch of a functional Obamacare website for political reasons, after wasting $300 million in federal taxpayer dollars.
That’s right: the total earnings of 300 working American lifetimes just tossed aside like it was nothing. This happened because a corrupt governor badly wanted to win reelection for a fourth term. He pulled it off last November, and lasted all of 38 days of the new term before resigning.
According to IT contractor Oracle, the site was ready to launch. The state chose to cancel the initiative and kick Oregonians into the federal insurance exchange instead, thus opening the subsidies of about 100,000 Oregonians up to a Supreme Court challenge this summer.
The government also decided to sue Oracle — which counter sued, of course. ...
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