Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency

parkland writes "Federal CIO Vivek Kundra described some dismaying government inefficiencies in a speech on Thursday at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs in Seattle. It takes 160 days to process benefits for veterans, he said, 'because the Veteran's Administration is processing paperwork by passing manila folders from one desk to another.' Another example bound to make you grind your teeth is why it takes the Patent and Trademark Office 3 years to process a patent. 'One reason,' says Kundra, 'is because the USPTO receives these applications online, prints them out, and then someone manually rekeys the information into an antiquated system.'"

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Re:Failed Logic

[mpapet]

There's a difference between making money and taking money.
Governments do all that awful taking for roads, and those useless public safety functions like courts and fire departments. We don't need any of that silly waste management either. All that taking is just evil I tell you!! Pure evil!!

As for the rest of your rationalizations, you've been duped by 'free markets' newspeak.