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In a similar story, USCIS spent $3.1 billion on trying to build a web app to submit forms: https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/02/15/billion-dol...

And they failed at that too. Apparently what would have been a weekend project for a high school student was so hard for a federal agency that they burned $3.1 billion trying to do it. (This level of incompetence is truly despicable.)

I wonder if there is something pathologically wrong with government and how government (at least in the U.S.) does spending.



And I hear people seriously suggest that the government can't get things done because they are "underfunded"!




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