In the midst of his Thursday press conference announcing he was yet again changing an element of ObamaCare that doesn’t work, the President had an epiphany – government regulations “makes it more difficult” to get things done. Projects end up “over budget, behind schedule.”
Imagine if the President had actually run a business before he got elected – then he would have known that lesson long before now.
Obama Blames Government For “Making It More Difficult” To Get Something Done
Real Clear Politics
November 14, 2013PRESIDENT OBAMA: think it’s fair to say that we have a pretty good track record of working with folks on technology and IT from our campaign, where, both in 2008 and 2012, we did a pretty darn good job on that. So it’s not that — you know, the idea that somehow we didn’t have access or were interested in people’s — people’s ideas I think isn’t accurate.
What is true is that, as I said before, our IT systems, how we purchase technology in the federal government is cumbersome, complicated and outdated. And so this isn’t a situation where — on my campaign, I could simply say, who are the best folks out there, let’s get them around a table, let’s figure out what we’re doing and we’re just going to continue to improve it and refine it and work on our goals.
If you’re doing it at the federal government level, you know, you’re going through, you know, 40 pages of specs and this and that and the other and there’s all kinds of law involved. And it makes it more difficult — it’s part of the reason why chronically federal IT programs are overbudget, behind schedule.
And one of the — you know, when I do some Monday morning quarterbacking on myself, one of the things that I do recognize is since I know that the federal government has not been good at this stuff in the past, two years ago as we were thinking about this, you know, we might have done more to make sure that we were breaking the mold on how we were going to be setting this up. But that doesn’t help us now. We got to move forward.
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