Cancel 2016.2
The Almighty
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2...-only-cares-about-politics-obamacare-website/
Quite a track record they have going there... I wonder why the Obama admin would hire a CANADIAN company with a horrid track record?
Oh... well, that just has to be a coincidence...
Why isn't the left up in arms about offshoring the jobs? Spending US tax dollars on a Canadian firm to create a website that doesn't work. One that is said to have cost about $600m to create... which is absurd in itself. All the tech firms in the US and we couldn't get the Obama admin to choose one over this Canadian failure?
CGI is not a creative free spirit from Jersey City with an impressive mastery of Twitter, but a Canadian corporate behemoth. Indeed, CGI is so Canadian their name is French: Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique [Consultants in Management and Information processing]. Their most famous government project was for the Canadian Firearms Registry. The registry was estimated to cost in total $119 million, which would be offset by $117 million in fees. That’s a net cost of $2 million. Instead, by 2004 the CBC (Canada’s PBS) was reporting costs of some $2 billion — or a thousand times more expensive. . . .
But it proved impossible to “improve” CFIS (the Canadian Firearms Information System). So CGI was hired to create an entirely new CFIS II, which would operate alongside CFIS I until the old system could be scrapped. CFIS II was supposed to go operational on January 9, 2003, but the January date got postponed to June, and 2003 to 2004, and $81 million was thrown at it before a new Conservative government scrapped the fiasco in 2007. Last year, the government of Ontario canceled another CGI registry that never saw the light of day — just for one disease, diabetes, and costing a mere $46 million.
Quite a track record they have going there... I wonder why the Obama admin would hire a CANADIAN company with a horrid track record?
Why would even the most managerially incompetent administration in history hire a firm with that sort of track record to handle its signature project? Well, call me cynical, but the Daily Caller has noted that the senior vice president of the company was a classmate of Michelle Obama at Princeton, and spent “Christmas with the Obamas” at the White House seven months after she got her job at CGI.
Oh... well, that just has to be a coincidence...
Why isn't the left up in arms about offshoring the jobs? Spending US tax dollars on a Canadian firm to create a website that doesn't work. One that is said to have cost about $600m to create... which is absurd in itself. All the tech firms in the US and we couldn't get the Obama admin to choose one over this Canadian failure?