We definitely do need better government. But I don't think this digital service thing is going to work out. Early reports from similar programs like the Presi

We definitely do need better government. But I don't think this digital service thing is going to work out. Early reports from similar programs like the Presidential Fellows program, shows that government bureaucracy is pretty calcified, and the private contractors that provide the current dated technology aren't going to go quietly either. A bunch of young guns parachuting in isn't going to have much effect unless someone with a lot of political capital, spends that capital forcing change. Otherwise, the young guns will just get sidelined. I've talked to people in the Presidential Fellows program, and they get sidelined a lot. Nothing actually changes. And forget about bringing in new, better vendors for government contracts. There is an entire skillset required to bid on and get government contracts, and the people that know how to build good technology, have no idea how to get the contracts. And the people that know how to get the contracts, specialize in that, and have no idea how to build good technology. How do you think that garbage-ass company from Canada (that isn't even allowed to build tech for the Canadian government) gets recruited to build Healthcare.gov at some huge inflated expense. And BTW, you can't even get people in the know to talk about this stuff, because anyone that does is shitting on their own career prospects if they tattle on the system. The Healthcare.gov fix worked because the President supported that intervention. Can every place that Digital Service serves get that kind of support? If it does, then that will be amazing. But I sort of doubt the President can micromanage and give support to a thousand interventions in a thousand different departments, all with their own little fiefdoms.