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Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug
Hotair ^ | 06/16/2017 | Justin Sink from Bloomberg

Posted on 06/16/2017 8:13:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.

“We’re looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House. He likened the move to the government “cleaning out our closets.”

Deregulation is a major ambition of President Donald Trump’s agenda; as one example, he has signed more laws rolling back his predecessor’s regulations than the combined total of the three previous presidents since the process was established by the 1999 Congressional Review Act.

Justin Sink from Bloomberg Posted at 9:15 am on June 16, 2017


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2000; computers; draintheswamp; preparedness; trump; trump45; y2k; year2000; year2000chaos
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To: editor-surveyor
We desperately need a sundown amendment to the constitution for every act of congress, or executive order, terminating them after four years,

With tongue slightly in cheek, I've often proposed that all laws over 100 years old will sunset in five years unless re-enacted. Those over 50, 10 years; newly enacted laws will sunset in four years. That would keep the pols so damn busy they wouldn't be able to enact new ones.

41 posted on 06/16/2017 6:48:03 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: C210N

Before that comes UNIX rollaround. 1970 plus 2^31 seconds - some time in 2038.


42 posted on 06/16/2017 9:03:59 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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