Posted on 04/18/2009 2:15:34 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
President Barack Obama on Saturday chose two Indian-Americans to help to streamline the federal government and cut costs.
Obama named Aneesh Chopra, the Harvard-educated secretary of technology for the state of Virginia, as the federal government's first chief technology officer. Chopra, 36, will help reduce health care costs and foster cybersecurity.
"In this role, Aneesh will promote technological innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities - from creating jobs and reducing health care costs to keeping our nation secure," Obama said in his Saturday radio and Internet address.
Chopra's corporate experience included working as managing director of the Advisory Board Company, a Washington-based health research company.
Another Indian-American, Vivek Kundra, will serve as chief information officer. Kundra is responsible for "responsible for setting technology policy across the government, and using technology to improve security, ensure transparency, and lower costs," Obama said.
Kundra, 34, was chief technology officer for the city of Washington.
Obama also named Jeffrey Zients, a longtime management consultant, as chief performance officer. His selection comes after Obama's first choice for the newly created position, Nancy Killefer, withdrew in February over tax problems. Zients, a founder and managing partner of the investment firm Portfolio Logic, will also serve as a deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
"With the leadership of these individuals, I am confident that we can break our bad habits, put an end to the mismanagement that has plagued our government and start living within our means again," Obama said. "That is how we will get our deficits under control and move from recovery to prosperity."
On Feb. 3, Killefer, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co., withdrew her candidacy to be chief performance officer, saying she didn't want her mishandling of payroll taxes on her household help to become a distraction
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How much hasn’t HE paid in income taxes?
How many Czars are we up to now?
I wonder why Obama does not drop by my house and slap me and kill my cat?
He got the idea when he called Dell’s tech line.
I've lost count. Aren't we lucky? /sarc
Will his duties include carrying the teleprompter like a standard, before the One?
Dangit, so now I’m going to have to speak to someone who understands my accent when calling the government regarding tech support?
He authorized trillions of dollars of wasteful spending on welfare, increased the size of the wasteful government, double the deficit and the national debt but yet he talks about cutting government cost. Never before in history of our Republic that there has been a President or even a national politician who lies 24/7, lies with shocking brazenness, lies without an iota of shame, and does exactly the opposite of what he says.
It is just incredible.
ZERO hasn’t picked One American for any of HIS Positions!
Why do I think ZERO doesn;t like Americans or America?
I know, Iknow! I am just being Unfair to this KENYAN MISFIT!
It’s the bizarro-world cabinet.
Obama has created more czars than there exisited in all of Russian history.
Good question. He can't be everywhere at once, but he hasn't forgotten about you. He'll assign the task to his National Domestic Security Service Force.
But will they Hire AMERICANS ?
I am an American Computer guy....25+ years experience...and I am SICK and TIRED of “Citizens of India” taking over the Computer Jobs Americans can do, and especially when I HAVE TO TRAIN THEM.
I can just as well Train Americans.
Federal Computer Contracts are staffed with 30% to 40 % Foreigners by Sub Contractors to the CSC, IBM, Lockheed, etc..contractors who have the Federal contract.
That’s a Fact Jack !! Been there, seen that. Walk in to a Federal Computer Contractor’s office, ask to see their Telephone list of everyone working on the Federal contract under their employ....and if you cannot pronounce 40% of the Names on the Phone list, you have a BIG HINT as to the Issue of foreign workers doing American JOBS.
The guy from DC had ghost employees on his payroll..but he never “knew”. Anybody who worked for the DC govt is 99% currupt.
"In this role, Aneesh will promote technological innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities - from creating jobs and reducing health care costs to keeping our nation secure," Obama said in his Saturday radio and Internet address.
Don't those things kind of contradict each other, reducing health care costs, but yet somehow creating jobs?
Reducing health care costs to people who don't work and buy insurance perhaps....
At any rate, only a Marxist moron would think he could reduce costs by creating more welfare for the "rich' taxpayers to pay for.
And keeping America secure? LMAO! Perhaps he really means keeping Bamako's (that's what "Obama" spell corrects to) shady dealings with those he conspires with to destroy America with secure.
With his recent announcements to eliminate our nukes, reduce our military defenses, slash it's budget, I don't see how that keeps our nation secure.
This also seems to be a pretty big hat for this person to wear, and must have quite a high level of power and security clearance. It seems that she will have control over both the pentagon and the treasury.
This Website/PC Commissar makes 19.
yitbos
Give him some time
LoL! great idea! All Americans requiring tech support for their gateways, Acers, Ibm's, Macs etc. should call Vivek Kundra at the white house.
“Issue of foreign workers doing American JOBS...”
No real American would probably do 1/2 of what these foreigners are being hired to do to us and our country...
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