Two hundred of President Obamas biggest donors have won government jobs and advisory posts as well as federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests.

80 of Green Energy Loans Went to Obama Donors

Does the Tech sector escape this noxious Crony Socialism? Of course not.

Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obamas run for the presidency…..

Level 3 Communications in which Gips retained stock received millions of dollars of government stimulus contracts for broadband projects in six states….

And when the governments involved contributions are far more important than competence.

The Internet Stimulus-Just as Destructive as the Rest of the Stimulus

Yet Another Terrible Internet Stimulus Project

Canadian Officials Fired IT Firm Behind Troubled ObamaCare Website

But it isnt just Crony Socialism.

Obamacare Website Glitches Reveal Larger Government Problem

The U.S. government spends more than $80 billion a year for information-technology services yet the resulting systems typically take years to build and often are cumbersome when they launch.

Government websites arent exactly technological marvels and…wait $80 billion a year? On IT?

How on Earth is that even possible? If every single Federal Communications Commission (FCC) bureaucrat spent 9-5 Monday-Friday all year throwing 20s out of windows they couldnt get to $80 billion.

I doubt every private company in California combined spends $80 billion a year on IT. The federal government does for these pathetic results.

Again the ObamaCare website is but one symptom of a government-wide disease Technological Corrupt Boobery. Yet the bumbling unscrupulous Obama Administration is dramatically (and often illegally) increasing its role in the private Tech sector. It has:

Imposed Network Neutrality.
Asked Congress to insert it into what should be a private sector secondary spectrum market auction.
Been contemplating the imposition of anti-free market rules for said auction (which is probably why it asked Congress to insert it even though we know itll only make things worse).
Imposed cell phone price caps.
Imposed prison phone call price caps.
Time and again micro-managed cable TVs channel placement.

Amongst other things on which they have little idea but grand designs.

NSA Hid Explosions Delays at $1.2 Billion Spy Compound

Government is inherently more wasteful than we are. Imagine a Friday night where you go out with your wallet and the next Friday night you go out with my wallet. During which Friday night will you have more fun?

The government is out on our wallets all the time. They will never be as frugal or careful with our money as are we. (800000 non-essential personnel anyone? How about on-our-dime government rap videos or Star Trek videos or Gilligans Island videos?)

Government is inherently less competent than we are. Because they dont create wealth they take it from those who do. If they were more competent they would be making it rather than taking it.

And the more skills required in any given sector the worse government gets it wrong. Tech requires a lot of skills. So government like with the ObamaCare websites ends up getting it way way wrong. Exorbitantly expensively wrong.

Ultimately government is less careful less qualified people bossing around people who know and do more. The more government insists on doing the worse things get in the productive world.

The solution is to minimize as much as possible the amount of things government tries to do. Which incidentally is for what the Constitution calls. But lets also do it to prevent government from serially embarrassing itself.

Confidence will come not from tweaks to a horrendous ObamaCare website for a horrendous ObamaCare. It will come from the government getting out of the private sectors way and back to its intended roles and size.

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