Comment Re:Volunteers?!? Fucking PAY them, you cheap fuck (Score 2) 185
But "blowing all the taxpayer cash on God knows what" it's rightly on point.
When I got laid off two years ago, I had to go through the unemployment benefits process. They were working on improving their front end system to consolidate their job search engine with their benefits one. The benefits one seemed like it was developed in the late 90's with a bunch of Perl CGI's. (I do not know the underlying technology, but the site was certainly dated). I could not also get anybody on the phone every single time I called, I was always answered by a cheerful voice recording. Their job centers are nice though, and people that staffed them were helpful and competent. But it seems that this was the case of not spending money in their computer and CRM systems being that "was good enough" for years.
There may be some folks that are bored to tears that are willing to look at the problem, but a problem that has been brewing for more than 40 years is not going to be fixed overnight, regardless of language and technology.