They're discussing something like that here, too. Luckily I live in a country (Germany) that is as incompetent as it is corrupt when it comes to public IT projects.
It'll just end up like those contact tracing apps: they'll sink millions into consultants and contracts for their friends. The project is going to take so long it's no longer useful by the time they get anywhere, and what little they manage to deliver will be even more retarded and unusable than the design concept they started with.
Another "great" example is our national vaccination campaign website: you either get error messages, maintenance downtime or there are simply no vaccination doses available for months.
Corruption and incompetence can be a blessing in disguise.
Clearly you have never heard of Amtrak or Medicare.
Imagine spending 65 billion euros to build a rail line from Breisgau to Augsburg, with the promise that for another hundred billion it can be extended to Munich. That's how stupid America is.
Well, we've got Stuttgart 21, a railway project (from Stuttgart to Augsburg) that was supposed to finish 2020 with a cost of 3,3 billion €. They've been upping those numbers every year. At the moment they hope to get it done by 2025 with a cost of 9 billion € (and that's only because of accounting tricks where they split off parts into "separate" projects).
Not quite as much money but the same bullshit. Double and triple digit billions are reserved for "refugees" around here.
They're discussing something like that here, too. Luckily I live in a country (Germany) that is as incompetent as it is corrupt when it comes to public IT projects.
It'll just end up like those contact tracing apps: they'll sink millions into consultants and contracts for their friends. The project is going to take so long it's no longer useful by the time they get anywhere, and what little they manage to deliver will be even more retarded and unusable than the design concept they started with.
Another "great" example is our national vaccination campaign website: you either get error messages, maintenance downtime or there are simply no vaccination doses available for months.
Corruption and incompetence can be a blessing in disguise.
Clearly you have never heard of Amtrak or Medicare.
Imagine spending 65 billion euros to build a rail line from Breisgau to Augsburg, with the promise that for another hundred billion it can be extended to Munich. That's how stupid America is.
Well, we've got Stuttgart 21, a railway project (from Stuttgart to Augsburg) that was supposed to finish 2020 with a cost of 3,3 billion €. They've been upping those numbers every year. At the moment they hope to get it done by 2025 with a cost of 9 billion € (and that's only because of accounting tricks where they split off parts into "separate" projects).
Not quite as much money but the same bullshit. Double and triple digit billions are reserved for "refugees" around here.