Posted on 12/12/2013 2:32:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In an unmarked building on the outskirts of this old railroad town, hundreds of workers are going about the unglamorous work of expanding the United States' social safety net.
From morning until midnight, clerks here type up the names, Social Security numbers and other personal details of those who have filled out paper applications for health insurance under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
From the outside, there's no indication that the workers in the three-story brick building are carrying out an increasingly crucial part of the healthcare overhaul known as Obamacare.
But as the Obama administration tries to recover from the disastrous debut of the website that is supposed to enroll millions of Americans in health coverage, its call for frustrated Americans to enroll the old-fashioned way - on paper - have made this building in Rogers, Arkansas, one of the most important cogs in the president's signature domestic achievement....
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Punch cards or punch tape?
good enough for government work
Do they also make “carbon” copies?
Cuneiform on clay tables.
Nope. No can do. Can’t be adding to the carbon footprint.
Facilitating the communist scheme of the dictator
Seems fitting the little socialists conduct their ‘business’ near a railway yard.
Gobs mo’ affirmative action jobs—yippee!!!!!! Obama voters navigating for Obama voters and getting paid!!! By the man!!!
The IBM 026 Card Punch, millions were is service in the 60s, 70s and some in the 80s.
Initially replaced by the MDS {Mohawk Data Sciences Data Recorder}
The data recorder was a key to tape device, sounds ancient today but was way ahead of the curve in the 60s.
They are all probably stoned Acorn rejects.
***Rogers, Arkansas, ***
WHAT! That’s only 25 miles from here! North 13th Street and West Roselawn Drive, Rogers, Ar.
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/oct/22/serco-hiring-1100-more-rogers-process-cen-20131022/
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