www.recovery.gov

February 19, 2009 Shiplap 10 comments

Transparency, Chicago style.

Welcome to Recovery.gov
Recovery.gov is a website that lets you, the taxpayer, figure out where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going.

Accountability and Transparency
This is your money. You have a right to know where it’s going and how it’s being spent. Learn what steps we’re taking to ensure you can track our progress every step of the way.

On Our Way: Read the Bill
The President recently signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. Read the full bill here.

Problem is, the full bill here is only 407 pages. The bill which passed is over 1000 pages. What doesn’t the President want us to know ?

This is transparency ? This is change ? This is more of the same Washington two step.

This is not change we can count on.

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Written by Wolverine about 2 years ago.

It’s official. We are now the “United Soup Kitchen of America.”

You mean that’s only half of the thing?!! I can tell already where many of those new jobs will be coming from. It’ll take a vertitable army of lawyers, budget wonks, and bureaucrats to keep tabs on all that stuff. The 407 pages are only the opening chapter. It will wear us all out trying to ascertain the actual recipients of all those bucks.

I’m beginning to feel like the Marines at the Chosun Reservoir being hit by a human tidal waves of Chinese troops. I just hope the conservative media and the blogs are able to keep up and inform us as to the ultimate recipients and what they do with my money. I just made the last payment on my mortgage and still feel like I’m mortgaged up to the neck.
Written by bob about 2 years ago.

if I had the time it would be interesting to put a site called the realrecovery.gov and disclose everything!

I might actually have time as JP Morgan is laying us off….
Written by squiddy about 2 years ago.

I’m still bewildered and baffled by the people who show up on TV to defend this avalanche of spending, (mostly, by attacking capitalism, saying “This is how we got here” without any irony at all.) They talk about government in worshipful tones, saying “Only the government can fix this” – by spending money – not *our* money, our children’s money, it’s the government’s money. Free lunch, anyone?

Every government program in existence is subject to widespread waste, fraud, and abuse – Medicaid/Medicare, Disability, Workmen’s Comp, for example, generally suffer a 50-60% fraud rate. And with this much money? Oh man, the corruption this much money will generate will make New Orleans and Chicago corruption look like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir by comparison.

Wolverine’s right, even now, there’s an army of specialists in waste, fraud and abuse, slithering up from the muck, working to position themselves to get their cut of this stream of money. But I guess lobbyists, party hacks, union bosses, Mob bosses, corrupt regulators and inspectors, and procurement officials looking for kickbacks, I guess they need to pay their bills, too…

In my mind’s eye, I see 16 people getting paid for every guy holding a shovel …
Written by ACTivist about 2 years ago.

If 407 pages are what the American people get in the way of mortgage help, unemployment and job creation then 700+ pages is growing the government and stuffing their pockets i.e. beach condos, private planes, prostitutes, parties, Cayman accounts, cocaine, personal private armies…..
Written by Had Enough about 2 years ago.

Transparency! There will never be any such thing with BHO. BHO has his over paid, high profile lawyers fighting Alan Keyes and many, many others. Keyes had a subpoena issued for BHO’s college records, BHO ordered his attorney’s to fight it, ordered the school not to release anything. Keyes has been threatened with a monetary lawsuit if he continues to pursue the records.

They can’t find anyone who knew him at Occidental and Columbia. There was a student on the California foreign student aid list with the last name Soretoro (no first names on the list) who received aid about the time he would have started Occidental.

Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him at Columbia.

I’m guessing his legal bills have hit the million mark and that’s why he is threatening lawsuits to recover money spent in his cover up suits.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/02/obama-birth-cer.html
Written by Wolverine about 2 years ago.

Recent quote from Warren Buffett:

“Major industries have become dependent on federal assistance, and they will be followed by cities and states bearing mind-boggling requests. Weaning these entities from the public teat will be a political challenge. They won’t leave willingly.”

Sure beginning to sound like a GOSPLAN to me!
Written by Cathymac about 2 years ago.

Umm, didn’t Mr. Buffet support TARP I? Wasn’t he Obama’s ecomonic advisor during the election? He is about as intellectually honest as a squirrel. The size of a squirrel’s brain should be noted for this comparison.
Written by Wolverine about 2 years ago.

Right on several counts, Cathymac. He was an “informal” Obama advisor during the campaign and he did support the intitial bailouts of financial institutions in order to avoid what he termed potentially cataclysmic effects on the economy. He is now talking about the “unintended aftereffects” of the bailouts and stimulus.

All this came in his annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. after a 4th Quarter loss of 96%. The letter contained mea culpas for some stupid decisions on his part.

I wonder if the authors of any of those failed GOSPLAN’s ever sent out mea culpas to the shareholders, i.e. the Soviet people? Hmmm….squirrels, ACORNS…it all fits.

BTW, a friend just e-mailed me a copy of a 1999 New York Times article which covered the very beginning of the Clinton-inspired push on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to up the provision of sub-prime mortgages. Sort of tells you where this economic folly really began…and from our famous “Newspaper of Record”, no less.
Written by Cathymac about 2 years ago.

I got the NYT article too Wolv.

For everyone’s viewing pleasure:

https://mail.nacha.org/exchange/CMCNICKLE/Inbox/FW:%20Economy:%20NY%20Times%20….%209years%20ago..EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_2_NYTimes1999.pdf/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/NYTimes1999.pdf?attach=1
Written by Mason about 2 years ago.

Keep working ,great job!

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