Use NSA to repair health-care website

We should have a new Cabinet position made for the National Security Agency alone. How else can we keep track of the agency’s goings-on? No one else seems to have a handle on them.

If the NSA can listen to the phones and read what’s on the computers in France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil and Spain (so far), imagine the benefits.

With the agency in a Cabinet meeting, all the president has to do is direct the NSA to access the computers of everyone who has been trying to log on for the Affordable Care Act and hasn’t because of problems.

It would probably take the NSA a couple of nanoseconds to do it, fix the problem and sign up the people with information already on their computers.

Since the Department of Health and Human Services can’t seem to do it, let’s get the NSA involved.

Paul Melvin Winter

Blame management for website fiasco

One point of discussion in this problem-plagued rollout of the Affordable Care Act has been missed.

Since 2007, it has been Office of Management and Budget policy that all government pro- gram managers in civilian agencies be certified to perform the role of program manager. The policy is intended to avoid the results we have seen with the ACA website.

The ACA website fiasco is more than a failure of software engineering. It is a failure of management and the ability of the government to follow its own policies.

The management side of the story is easy to follow and document and is more black and white than the nuances of good software engineering.

The policy does allow waivers. It would be enlightening to know if the secretary of Health and Human Services asked for waivers for her government

Grayson accountable for tea party remarks

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has made some remarkable comments about the tea party, saying it is like the Ku Klux Klan.

The KKK and the tea party have arisen out of undercurrents in American society.

However, the KKK arose out of an undercurrent of people who wanted to oppress certain minorities. The tea party arose out of an undercurrent of people who want a fiscally responsible government that operates within the limits of the Constitution.

The tea party is for freedom and against oppression. As such, the KKK and the tea party are at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

As a native Floridian, I ask that the good people of his district hold him accountable for these remarks, and if he does not disavow them, to then withdraw support for him.

Rich Miller

Grayson on target

Regarding Scott Maxwell’s column, “With KKK talk, Grayson reverts to old, extremist ways,” in Friday’s Sentinel:

In defense of U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, I have received many form-letter emails from a couple

Government critics usually take benefits

Donald M. Fann’s history lesson in Saturday’s Sentinel was incomplete. He failed to state whether or not he is willing, immediately, to forgo Social Security and Medicare in order to comply with his stated beliefs.

My guess is that he either gladly does or will accept these government-run programs as so many other critics of government do, or uses the “I earned them” line that is so common among his ilk.

I suggest that he stop criticizing, take his love of history and learn about what happens when people who grow up in poverty try to make ends meet.

I don’t want to hear the “get a job” line, either. It’s not so easy without the right clothes, education or environment.

At least the presidents he mentioned didn’t start a war without reason, spend the country into oblivion while giving tax breaks to the Koch brothers and do nothing to help those who are impoverished to get started on the road to a better life.

I’m sure tea partyers consider themselves to be good Christians.

I’m also sure that Jesus weeps every time they say this.

Mary Ann Goloversic