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IBM offered to build Obamacare Website for FREE

death2ducks
death2ducks Member Posts: 991
in Tug Tavern
... and Obama turned them down, instead awarding an almost $1 billion No-Bid contract to a Canadian company.

infowars.com/confirmed-obama-wh-turned-down-offer-to-build-o-care-website-for-free-blew-a-1-billion-instead/
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  • RaccoonHarry
    RaccoonHarry Member Posts: 2,161
    I'm sure our half-white, I like to call him half-white, President had a very good reason...
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,558 Founders Club
    if true that's fucking ridiculous.
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  • death2ducks
    death2ducks Member Posts: 991
    DerekJohnson said:

    if true that's fucking ridiculous.

    Maybe he didn't like what he heard while bugging their phone calls?
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    $1 billion to build a website? Only the government could spend so much for little. Jeff Bezos is LOLing. Some people made a lot of money in the last three years.
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  • priapism
    priapism Member Posts: 2,306
    Free = build it on their proprietary system, and make it nearly impossible and prohibitively $$$ to upgrade to another system in the future. IBM then benevolently charges for future necessary "security" upgrades.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    priapism said:

    Free = build it on their proprietary system, and make it nearly impossible and prohibitively $$$ to upgrade to another system in the future. IBM then benevolently charges for future necessary "security" upgrades.

    Prohibitively expensive? As if a billion isn't prohibitive?

    But it would also work.....and still cost less than a billion...BILLION! jesus. That is the more than any company has ever paid for any system of any kind.
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  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    edited December 2013
    Lets spend $1 billion taxpayer money to build a shitty website for a shitty program that they shoved down our throats, that no one wanted in the first place, and send 2 billion taxpayer dollars per year to those stupid Egyptian towelheads that burn our flags and shout death to America, and save money where we can, say by cutting the food stamp program for the poor and disabled. This country is becoming a festering pile of shit.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,840
    oregonblitzkrieg said:

    Lets spend $1 billion taxpayer money to build a shitty website for a shitty program that they shoved down our throats, that no one wanted in the first place, and send 2 billion taxpayer dollars per year to those stupid Egyptian towelheads that burn our flags and shout death to America, and save money where we can, say by cutting the food stamp program for the poor and disabled. This country is becoming a festering pile of shit.

    I heart that you poasted this after stealing Passion's avatar

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  • death2ducks
    death2ducks Member Posts: 991
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