Apparently our government runs a lottery every year that normally attempts to issue 50,000 green-cards to people seeking residency here. I say "normally" because this year the computer program that randomly selects the winners messed up. To make matters worse the U. S. State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, which runs the program through something called the Diversity Visa Program, didn't properly test the program before 22,000 would be citizens had already been notified. So 22,000 people who thought they were getting a chance to come to our shores may not have a chance after all. Additionally, the computer mistakenly picked the first list of winners from applications taken in just the first week of the program rather than over the course of the entire 30-day period. So to fix things, government officials have decided to rerun the computer lottery from a record 15 million applications.
Thus far the Obama Administration doesn't have a very good record in picking winners and losers. Witness Solyndra, the "shovel ready" stimulus, Cash for Clunkers, Recovery Summer, the Ground Zero mosque, and its close cousin, the attempt to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan. The Diversity Visa Program might just be another plan gone horribly awry. In any case, why question a computer program that randomly selected its first 22,000 winners from early applications. Does it really matter? It's still random, right? Good grief!
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