Re:Builders of Obama's health website saw red flags
by MrZongle2 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:05PM
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"Because he's usually tapped to lead things bigger than these individual projects."
Playing devil's advocate here: what's bigger than an overhaul of an entire nation's healthcare system?
Re:Builders of Obama's health website saw red flags
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:18PM
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> Playing devil's advocate here: what's bigger than an overhaul of an entire nation's healthcare system?
High-level leadership positions in offices whose scope is the entire executive branch not just the healthcare piece: his position for the entirety of the Obama Administration has been Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget (and about a year and a quarter of that he spent as Acting Director of OMB, as well).
Or, being responsible for leadership on the entirety of the nations economic policy -- he's scheduled to move into a position as Director of the National Economic Council on Jan. 1, 2014.
Because he's usually tapped to lead things bigger than these individual projects.
> We have a strong national military... what's to stop us from having a strong national development team?
Competition from the private sector for talent. If we had as much demand for private troops in the US as for private developers, and private troops were paid as well as private developers, we couldn't afford a strong national military.
(We don't actually need as many developers as troops to have a strong national dev team, so this isn't an insurmountable problem, but if you look at the civil service salary schedule against private sector dev salaries, there is a pretty radical disconnect.)