What…a government agency…not being run correctly??!?! Perish the thought.
Highlights below, see here for the full article (long, but well worth the read).
While [Obama] delivers speeches praising the alleged success of Cash for Clunkers, a former rebate processor for the federal program – also working undercover for WND – is calling it “complete chaos.”
After the federal “Cash for Clunkers” program ended Aug. 24, the Department of Transportation reported that nearly 700,000 clunkers were taken off the roads and replaced by more fuel-efficient vehicles. Rebate applications worth $2.877 billion were submitted by the 8 p.m. deadline. The Transportation Department hired federal employees and private contract workers to process the rebates vouchers so car dealers would be compensated.
Former White House aide Kathleen Willey was hired as an employee with Vangent Incorporated, a company that provides information technology management and business process outsourcing services to the public and private sectors. Its clients include federal agencies such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the U.S. Departments of Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, Justice and Labor and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
After an application process that required no work history and a room full of applicants wearing t-shirts, flip-flops and jeans, Willey tried to start working. Keyword: tried.
The following day, on Sept. 2, employees waited outside from 4:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. to get into the building.
“Once inside, we waited another 30 minutes to sign in ’so we would get paid,’ Willey recalled. “I noted that it was written on the piece of paper that our work day started at 4:30. We then waited in line at the ‘badge table’ to get our badges. When I got there, I had no badge. I finally got to my desk at about 6:45 p.m., where I sat with nothing to do until 10 p.m.”
The employees waited for their user IDs and passwords to access the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS. Meanwhile, they were being paid $14.71 an hour “to do absolutely nothing,” Willey said.
Willey explains that supervisors were either not present or completely unhelpful, and with no access to the online CARS system and no assignment, she resorted to reading the newspaper. No one around her, she explains, was perturbed in any way that they had no work to do and were getting paid for no reason.
During a 37.5-hour work week, Willey reported actually working only 14 hours – but she was paid for more than 37 hours of work.
“Two of those nights, I had no work at all,” she said. “On those two evenings, when I left, I complained to two different supervisors and I got two different responses: ‘Milk it, baby!’ and ‘Free money!’”
A spokesperson for Cash for Clunkers, of course, said the whole system was “very efficient.”
Now…since the government can’t run the mail (by The Obamessiah’s own admission), and they can’t run a simple rebate scheme for cars…how in God’s name are they going to run our healthcare system?
Think about that one.
