2009.09.29
Recovery.gov 2.0
When Congress approved the federal stimulus package, the Obama administration promised Americans they would be able to monitor how it spent the $787 billion it contained. The new era of transparency never really took off as the recovery.gov Web site was, honestly, pathetic.
On Monday, the administration rebooted the site with a new interface and better access to information. I haven't had time to play with it too deeply, but it certainly appears to be an improvement, though perhaps not as much as I'd hoped. The interactive map, for example, is clunky beyond words. What have they got against embedding data in a google map?
Check it out and see where your children's and grandchildren's taxes are going.
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so what about the 400,000.00 0bama is giving kadafi's son? think I'll get an answer? me neither....
Comment by pammala — September 29, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
Pammala, is that money coming from stimulus funds? If not, then this isn't the place to discuss it. This thread is to discuss the Web site and whether people think it is doing its job of creating transparency. Please to try to stay on topic.
Comment by C. Trejbal — September 29, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
uh I was under the impression it was, if not then delete my comment if you want to..
Comment by pammala — September 29, 2009 @ 5:05 pm
..since they were grants that is..
Comment by pammala — September 29, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
Pammala, it's difficult to verify anything about this because you have not provided a link to the relevant information.
Comment by C. Trejbal — September 29, 2009 @ 5:09 pm
one of hundreds of links to the info stating that 0bama is gin-ving kadafi's son 400,000.00
http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/obama-donates-400000-to-gaddafi-charity-stiffs-alaskan-wwii-vets/
there are many many more links but since you just need one, here it is
Comment by pammala — September 29, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
is giving, my bad spelling
Comment by pammala — September 29, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
Uh huh. That's a blog entry with a broken link. Do you have a more reliable source for that?
Comment by C. Trejbal — September 29, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
here's one
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/26/gop-lawmakers-push-cancellation-funds-qaddafi-foundations/
Comment by pammala — September 29, 2009 @ 5:31 pm
Pammala, that's not stimulus money. I agree that it's silly to give money to promote democracy and human rights in Libya, but it's from a different pot than the stimulus funds.
The problem with the website is that when you look at Tech's receipt of funds it says "GRANT PROGRAM" for all of them! Why not actually say WHICH grant program? I'd like to know if my tax dollars are going to fund underwater basketweaving research!
Comment by Bradford Wiles — September 29, 2009 @ 6:19 pm
Oh, and to answer your question about Google Maps: Because they needed to STIMULATE the economy by paying someone to make the maps from scratch! Government at work...
Comment by Bradford Wiles — September 29, 2009 @ 6:22 pm