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Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website?

Posted by samzenpus on from the failure-to-launch dept.

MarkWhittington writes "Glenn Reynolds, the purveyor of Instapundit, asked the pertinent question, 'If big government can put a man on the moon, why can't it put up a simple website without messing it up?' The answer, as it turns out, is a rather simple one. The Apollo program, that President John F. Kennedy mandated to put a man on the moon and return him to the Earth, was a simple idea well carried out for a number of reasons. The primary one was that Congress did not pass a 1,800 or so page bill backed up by a mind-numbing amount of regulations mandating how NASA would do it. The question of how to conduct the lunar voyages was left up to the engineers at NASA and the aerospace industry at the time. The government simply provided the resources necessary to do the job and a certain degree of oversight. Imagine if President Obama had stated, 'I believe the nation should commit itself to the goal of enabling all Americans to access affordable health insurance' but then left the how to do it to some of the best experts in health care and economics without partisan interference."

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  1. What ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    without partisan interference

    You're making a joke, right ?

    This is all the Democrats, and nothing but Democrat.

    1. Re:What ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      The monstrosity that exists is all Republican.

      Spoken like a true Democrat.

      Write the law, pass the law, implement the law, and when it sucks giant donkey balls, blame someone else.

      I think we have hit the nail on the head why healthcare.gov sucks.

      It's because progressive Democrat socialism sucks, and is supported by irresponsible people who can't function and survive without extorted assistance.

    2. Re:What ? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: -1, Troll

      Let's eliminate the Federal Government.

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    3. Re:What ? by sycodon · · Score: -1, Troll

      Canada has more Polar Bears than the US, so they should have 10 times the number of manufacturing plants than does the U.S

      See what a stupid statement you made?

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  2. Re:I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "No one should have to be paying for health care in this country, we're far too wealthy"

    Oh I love it, no one should pay huh? So you expect hip replacements to just rain out of the fucking sky and broken legs to magically set themselves?

    The stupid around here just cannot be topped.

    This is no start to anything, it's a state power grab and nothing more. You are a tyrant and you support tyrants, how does it feel statist?

    You wonder how people like Stalin and Hitler came to power huh? Not me.

  3. Re:The answer is SIMPLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    SIMPLE != LAWYERS

    Actually the answer is even simpler. Republicans. Because it turns the government does have an Apollo program for health care - Medicare. And guess what, it works great.

  4. Re:The answer is SIMPLE by sycodon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Blah blah blah, nothing you say refutes what I said.

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  5. Re:Sadly, we are all out of really smart NAZI's by hazah · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nazism is short for National Socialism. They aren't *like* socialists, they *are* socialists.