“I think just about everybody handling this thing secretly loathed it. “
I suspect there’s some significant truth in that. Starting with the torture of dealing with a bunch of stuff thrown-together by a variety of entities without oversight over the program as a whole, even in design, passed without real discussion on what was in it, much less apparently a full reading even by the staffs...and then hiding the development of the regulations being written from view so as to not expose them to political liability...then a refusal to send the regulations to the states who were charged with implementing much of it, without FOIA lawsuits...and fundamentally incompetent design for the software architecture...
....yeah, even true believers are likely to run out of energy sweating the details.
Well I think it’s hit its IT Waterloo.
Silicon shrugged! Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh! It is a bright day!
Well, I get a strong sense that in this purposeful creation (whether or not most of us can notice the purposes) God actually did work (root word of wrought) something significant in 1844 with the first long distance electromagnetic telegraph that carried those words. I wrote a poem about it a few weeks back.
What hath God wrought?
This question was sought
From the old Supreme Court
To Baltimore depot by the port;
In eighteen forty-four
The Lord opened up the door
To sharing His word
By wire as far as could be heard.
What hath God wrought?
Those who by His blood were bought
Proclaim the answer far and wide
By every means o’er hill and tide;
Whether by air or Internet
Or mouth to mouth, “God canceled our debt
So that our souls forever are free —
Give everyone this wondrous key!”
What hath God wrought?
The awe of God that once we taught
Has fallen on the ground;
Scarcely more is heard its sound —
God grieves from heaven so,
He wants His people again to know
What mighty words and deeds
Grow from faith like mustard seeds.
What hath God wrought?
Those who by His blood were bought
Proclaim the answer far and wide
By every means o’er hill and tide;
Whether by air or Internet
Or mouth to mouth, “God canceled our debt
So that our souls forever are free —
Give everyone this wondrous key!”
What hath God wrought?
O let His Spirit again be caught
By the hearts of yearning men
Who would see glory once again;
O let a boldness like a lion
Again be seen in Abraham’s scion
And all adopted in his faith
Speak up again before it’s too late.
What hath God wrought?
Those who by His blood were bought
Proclaim the answer far and wide
By every means o’er hill and tide;
Whether by air or Internet
Or mouth to mouth, “God canceled our debt
So that our souls forever are free —
Give everyone this wondrous key!”