Friday, 20 November 2009
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Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player !
If there is any silver lining in the government gone wild spending spree, it is that the website is fulfilling it's intended purpose. In the middle of ambiguity at least we do at least have reports of where money is alleged to have been spent.
Website Exposes Waste And False ClaimsIf there is one claim we should all remember from the campaign, it was that Candidate Obama promised transparent government. The one area we are starting to see a example of that is in the nonstimulating stimulus plan. And it is recovery.gov website that can be used to unearth the dubious claims of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
We can score some points with the nonexisting district, but a word to the wise is to keep it in perspective. These reports are reflecting what people report.and distort. The administration is being careless and playing foot loose and fancy free with the figures to build a propaganda campaign of success for their program. But we have the reports and the false claims they made, now we have something to start with as a base to hold people to account.Don't miss the forest for the trees. Without the website, we would not be able to uncover the false claims. Recovery.gov is the silver lining in the current cloud. Like you tube video clips that expose things that do not show the administration in a favorable light, I would suggest archiving damning data with screen shots, are web archiving to preserve the date for later research. They may be fake jobs in fake districts but it is real tax money that has been spent. Maybe in the end, recovery.gov may actually aid us in recovering the misspent funds and jailing the abusers of the nonrecovery act. Recovery.gov may be their own mousetrap for rooting out corruption . Sweet.
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Well I've been offline for a couple of weeks now and haven't really been able to dig into this except for bits and pieces. It appears though that liberal media have discovered the solution in running interference for the Obama administration...dog pile on Sarah Palin.
Deflection and obfuscation seems to be the order of the day.
not sure. i don't like biased reporting. or misconstruing facts. i have no clue on how that site is aligned with other stuff to know if it is biased or not. the clip is interesting though.
@followfreedom - but at some point the being offline and taking down information turns into obstruction and what happened to Dick Nixon? It wasn't the burglary that sunk him, it was the cover-up. Is scrubbing websites anything like erasing tapes????
@Paul_Partisan - it is a government website Paul;
Recovery.gov is the U.S. government’s official website providing easy access to data
related to Recovery Act spending and allows for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse.
"Is scrubbing websites anything like erasing tapes????" I think it's certainly the 21st century version of it.
I think we should also remember when reading that website (which I have to admit is a slick looking site) that to this administration and Democrats in general, recovery means 'job creation' vs. 'economic development'. For example the the feds are looking into buying a correctional facility in Illinois to house Gitmo detainees. While this would create about 3000 jobs according to Sen. Dick Durbin, thats 3000 jobs at tax payers expense and not one dime to real economic development. We all know that the one real tool that government has in stimulating the economy is cutting taxes which produces instant nausea to most Democrats.
it took $14m for that website. so much for frugality.
@supsoo - the most bang they have got out of any buck to date...I know that is relative..but just saying...
@supsoo - Sickening, isn't it?
This is unreal. What is transparent about this is everything. No help need from the BO administration. This defies logic. $300,000 to create 1 temporary job? I was never good at math, but even I know this can't possibly compute. Not the mention the phantom districts and who they were created for, i.e. cronies, minorities. Yet they took ALL of our tax dollars, and then decided who would be the recipients of the bill. It stunk from the begining, and what is being uncovered is the tip of the iceberg. When I was growing up Watergate was a big deal. How far we have fallen.
@nudged - watergate...growing up...wow, that sounds like a long long time ago.......
I hear you. redux.
@AnamcharaConcepts -
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site.html
@ProvokingThought - Very funny John. O.K, so I'm old. I am not old enough to have seen the invent of the printing press. At least I don't think so. Ha, ha, ha
@nudged - I read the pentagon papers when they came out first edition.My HS research involved using the periodical indexes
that was a 'xanga crack"
I've been archiving for years - regrettably, the manipulation of government data started under the Bush administration in the name of "updating".
When they come for me, they'll have a hard time finding all my flash drives.
@SwordAndSacrifice - why does the cost of living index and cost of living adjustments , as well as the deficit , come to mind when we speak about manipulation? off location storage is helpful as well.