Why do  we have Grand Theft Auto V, but not a working healthcare.gov. My 14-year old son and his buddies can sit on the rug in the playroom and blow away Los Angeles police men with rocket launchers and machine guns, while crouching behind cement barricades, but a single mother in Tennessee can’t log onto a website to apply for health insurance.

We have this…

 

But not this…

 

This is a Class A fuck up. Why are we in this situation? Well, there are lots of theories.

My theory is that government IT has always sucked. I mean my voting booth uses less technology than my favorite video game from 1977.

 

Congress didn’t even use the Internet until 1995. Even Newt Gingrich knew that was insane. I think my dad had an e-mail account before 1995.

Well, what’s to be done? I guess Verizon is stepping in to help out. Probably a good decision that should have been made six months ago. They are going to have to just throw money at this problem right now, but government has to stop acting like the 70-year old guy in front of me in the ATM line. We need an upgrade now.