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Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion
alphadogg writes "The US government can save more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years by consolidating its IT infrastructure, reducing its energy use and moving to more Web-based citizen services, a group of tech CEOs said in a report released Wednesday. The Technology CEO Council's report, delivered to President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, also recommends that the US government streamline its supply chains and move agencies to shared services for mission-support activities. 'America's growing national debt is undermining our global competitiveness,' said the council, chaired by IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano. 'How we choose to confront and address this challenge will determine our future environment for growth and innovation.' If the cash-strapped US government enacted all the recommendations in the advocacy group's report, it could save between $920 billion and $1.2 trillion by 2020, the group said. The federal government could also reduce IT energy consumption by 25 percent, and it could save $200 billion over 10 years by using advanced analytics to stop improper payments, the report said."
You know it's ironic, the savings they are proposing over the next 10 years almost exactly match the cost of the wars we've been fighting for the last 10 years.
I can pretty much guarantee that simple data-processing efficiency will not make a tiny dent in the white hole of entropy that is Congress.
And it would take a major constitutional amendment to supplant them with anything digital and algorithmically controlled.
So you're safe. Take your gun back to bed.
Better IBM or Google than someone like Northrup Grumman dropping the ball over and over.
I don't see how a surplus could possibly eliminate debt. As soon as the Democrats accomplish a surplus, we elect a Republican who squanders it all on tax cuts for the wealthy. Then we continue being in debt.
The power requirements are more for Windows compared to linux on the same hardware - at least on my laptop. Then again, I installed a proper linux distro, not Crapuntu. OpenSuse is SO much more polished.
BULLSHIT
KBR, Haliburton, Blackwater...look up these companies. Where the flying fuck did the government jack up their rates?? Where the fuck did the government cause these ass-holes to deliver inferior products or no products at all but still pocket the money.
Moron.