This is rich. Our federal government - or perhaps just the nature of government in general - is riddled in waste and inefficiency. That's because there is little lack of incentive to perform or be held accountable. But this is apparently not how the White House sees it. The White House Budget Director Peter Orszag says that the reason why government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology.

Yep. That's why our government is inefficient ... we don't have new computers.

These people love government so much they can't even see the obvious failures we observe on a daily basis. Just one example: When you see ten people on a street work crew, and eight of them are standing around with their teeth in their mouths ...that is not because they don't have good computers. When you stand in a waiting line at a government office watching phones ring off the hook while unionized government workers file their nails and pick their noses ... it's not because of outdated technology. When government officials claim that 300 jobs were "created or saved" with the purchase of a lawn mower .. you can't blame computers.

Government is inherently inefficient. That's one of the reasons we need so much less of it.