Day: October 1, 2013

Obamacare Is Here!!!!!

Posted on by Bobby Broadway

Obamacare is here….

Along with some “glitches” (too much traffic hitting site) in accessing https://www.healthcare.gov/, which in all honesty is something we should have expected.   There is NEVER a perfect roll-out and while this is definitely not perfect it is far from a massive failure of the program.  As someone who works in IT I can understand the issues the gov’t is having in traffic hitting the site and causing it to crash.  No matter how much you test or stress test a site you just never now until you go live.

Luckily enough these are issues that can be resolved fairly quickly, so folks may continue to see this….

HCR

for a couple of hours but time will only tell the overall impact of Obamacare.

Now if Republicans would have avoided the gov’t shutdown, the glitches of Obamacare roll-out would have been the #1 story in the news cycle.  SMH

As always….

If there is something to be said, “It’s On Broadway” to step up and say it!!

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN!!!

Posted on by Bobby Broadway

Government+Closed

 

Here we are folks, GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN!!!

House Leadership has stated they will not offer up any more Continuing Resolutions (CR) to avoid a government shutdown tonight (9/30/2013).  The United States government will basically be run by a skeleton crew of folks who have been deemed “essential personnel”.

While I did not want to see a government shutdown, I have to say that I am pleased that Democrats have stood up and decided to tell Republicans NO!  Sometimes you have to take a step back to take 2 steps forward.  Up to now it has not worked for Democrats to compromise on CRs and raising the debt limit and we have received in return is running gov’t 1 crisis after another.

That is no way for the gov’t of the United States to be run

It’s my belief that Republicans have always wanted a government shutdown since the day after President Obama won re-election.  For 4 years Republicans tweeted daily a countdown of the last time the Senate passed a budget.  So when the Senate finally passed a budget (I will admit Dems should have been passed a budget a long time ago) you would think House Republicans would be thrilled and anxious to start debate on that budget.  Instead Republicans refused to go to conference to hammer out a budget deal and decided to continue to run gov’t by CRs.  Because with CRs Republicans could negotiate (and I use that term loosely) draconian cuts to spending and now they are looking to defund or delay Obamacare.  Passing a budget would only take away the negotiating power of Republicans and that is something they do not want to lose, without that power they would not be able to achieve their #1 goal and that’s obstructing President Obama and government from moving forward.

Now with the government shutdown, who will blink first??

More info concerning Gov’t Shutdown; http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/30/government-shutdown-bilks-taxpayers/

As always….

If there is something to be said, “It’s On Broadway” to step up and say it!!