{"id":179910,"date":"2017-09-17T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/17\/well-this-is-great\/"},"modified":"2017-09-17T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:17:00","slug":"well-this-is-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/17\/well-this-is-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, This is Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Equifax <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/09\/15\/how-badly-did-equifax-breach-damage-the-social-security-system\/\">runs the My Social Security<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-11\/equifax-holds-contract-to-verify-data-for-obamacare-participants\">is responsible for verifying data for Obamacare exchanges<\/a> for the US government?<\/p>\n<p>You know, that whole, &#8220;Reinventing Government&#8221;, thing that Bill Clinton put forward in the 1990s, when critical government functions were outsourced to private for-profit operators, is looking to be an even worse deal than when it was first implemented in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, efficiency and savings were never really the goals:  It was a depressingly successful attempt to subvert the civil service laws and to return to the spoils system.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask President Garfield how well that worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Equifax runs the My Social Security and is responsible for verifying data for Obamacare exchanges for the US government? You know, that whole, &#8220;Reinventing Government&#8221;, thing that Bill Clinton put forward in the 1990s, when critical government functions were outsourced to private for-profit operators, is looking to be an even worse &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[395,588,439,541,382],"class_list":["post-179910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-computer","tag-fail","tag-government","tag-security","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}