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HooptieWagon

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3. 10 billion, 1 billion....

Reply to riqster (Original post)

Thu Oct 31, 2013, 07:02 PM

Oct 2013

The site performs like a $10K site. A good site could have been done for maybe 10 million, with an M. Problem was a flawed bidding process that excluded knowledgable contractors.

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House “Republicans” cut healthcare.gov funding by 90%. No wonder it doesn’t work well. [View all] riqster Oct 2013 OP

If only they could see what they are doing. Coyotl Oct 2013 #1

Sounds like Benghazi and funding for foreign US outposts, all over again. JoePhilly Oct 2013 #2

10 billion, 1 billion.... HooptieWagon Oct 2013 #3

That is baloney....you obviously have no idea how much such an endeavor would cost VanillaRhapsody Oct 2013 #4

Bullshit. HooptieWagon Nov 2013 #5

The examples you cite are not relevant. riqster Nov 2013 #8

but none of them were that big all at once! VanillaRhapsody Nov 2013 #10

bullfuckingshit. cali Nov 2013 #19

It needed 20 billion... but oh well... uponit7771 Nov 2013 #14

Lets assume 50 million sign up... HooptieWagon Nov 2013 #18

Let's watch the media report this and dwell on it treestar Nov 2013 #6

Even the alleged "liberals" at NPR barely mentioned it. riqster Nov 2013 #9

Thats why they were questioning Sebalious how they paid for this and that. B Calm Nov 2013 #7

10 billion dollars?? B2G Nov 2013 #11

And if they were given 1 billion, they only spent half of that to date B2G Nov 2013 #12

that's how they work, kill a program, then complain it's not working. spanone Nov 2013 #13

I don't see the cut in the PDF that is in the link in the post... anyone else have a link to the cut uponit7771 Nov 2013 #15

Why would the funding for such a critical piece not be included in the legislation? Seems idiotic. TheKentuckian Nov 2013 #16

bullshit from that fucking LIAR, mr blunt and stupid cali Nov 2013 #17