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Re:White House, congressional leaders reach debt deal by Synthetase on Sunday July 31, 2011 @10:05PM (#2830358)
It's depressing that some of America's most important fiscal matters must now be negotiated at the point of a gun. The dearth of start ups focused on the public sector seems somewhat surprising to me. It seems that Silicon Valley should have a role to play in easing Washington's dysfunction that we are not playing.
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Re:White House, congressional leaders reach debt deal by dave_sullivan on Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:33PM (#2830586)
I dunno, blood out of a turnip? Even if there's a need ( and there absolutely is ), the gov has no money. Doesn't sound like a business I'd want to get into.
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Re:White House, congressional leaders reach debt deal by pdebruic on Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:52PM (#2830633)
Its not that there's no money. Its that there's no cost effective way for small organizations to negotiate the contract discovery, bidding, and award process
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Re:White House, congressional leaders reach debt deal by dave_sullivan on Monday August 01, 2011 @12:29AM (#2830704)
That's fair, saying there's no money was an exaggeration. Maybe no new money for new companies would have been more accurate, not to mention the issues you mentioned (which were dead on).
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Re:White House, congressional leaders reach debt deal by ddw on Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:48PM (#2830623)
Code for America is a good project. I know that here in Philadelphia they are trying to make the city government more efficient/productive for citizens.
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Re:White House, congressional leaders reach debt deal by chopsueyar on Sunday July 31, 2011 @10:14PM (#2830385)
govWorks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GovWorks

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TH2UC4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

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