Posted on 08/22/2009 4:44:24 PM PDT by fiscon1
Employees of the FAA’s air-traffic-control unit were asked to help, but the Transportation Department stressed Friday that essential safety personnel were not diverted from their duties.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
They were probably just sitting around doing nothing anyway.
apparently
paper-pushers, desk jockeys, chair warmers... their everywhere in DC
And doctors will come from the postal department
I’m gonna start calling Obama Sh!tfinger. Everything he touches turns to pure offal....
Some $2.2 billion in claims were backlogged a few days ago. Let’s run some numbers.
We assume that the average payment is for $4,000 for purposes of rough estimation. That means some 550,000 claims were backlogged.
Assume that a person sitting at a computer gets a reimbursement application to look at, spends about two minutes to see that the application meets all the requirements, checks a box on the computer form that OKs the application for payment and sends it to accounting for payment. That is 30 applications per hour or 240 applications per day.
The 550,000 claims will require about 2300 man days or 460 man weeks to process. If all the processing is to happen in about three months this will require some 35 staffers doing this process at the assumed (very optimistic) rate.
Since this is the backlog, that means that they started the program some 35 staffers short and did not react to the shortage for quite a while, at least until a minor PR disaster had occurred.
Do we want these folks to run our health care as well?
“Your check is on runway 29er right, come left to heading 270 and descend to angels 11, call in when you reach the outer marker.”
(Commenter) Jeff
“See? We won’t have to ration health care. If we’re short a nurse or two, the feds will just ship over someone from the Ag Department.
(commentor) notropis
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