Monday, April 6, 2009

The 84 Million Dollar Government Website to highlight federal spending and economic recovery!

The Obama Administration promised the people transparency & accountability. President Obama has since broken that promise numerous times, the most blatant being with passage of the “stimulus bill”. The bill whose details were kept secret from the people and even many of the legislatures whose job it was to read the bill: Ultimately however, the bill was signed, sealed, and delivered to the President who neglected to provide any concrete answers (no surprise here) to any speculation arising from the American people (who are we anyway). This country was nearly divided on the necessity of this stimulus bill and ultimately our objections went were tossed aside without regard by the Obama administration and the majority of Congress.

Since the passing of the “stimulus” it has been made public that the members of Congress failed to read the entire bill they signed & passed & debted us with….the AIG bonus scandal emerged & both Congress and the administration deflected fault onto anyone but themselves..
We have had however more promises again by the Obama Administration of even more Accountability & Transparency (cause their just so good at it) regarding all the “stimulating” money which is soon to be spent….In fact VP Joe Biden is in charge of the Recovery.Gov website which will supposedly provide detailed info on where and how our future debt is stimulating…..

A few things to ponder….Early on during an interview the man in charge , VP Biden, could not remember the websites name or “number” during a television interview… why VP is even in charge of this website when there is an Accountability and Transparency Chief in the administration?……There was already a website in place which accounts for Federal spending called USAspending.gov…….the Accountability & Transparency Act of 2006 actually requires a “single searchable website” for people to use in order to track Federal spending….Recovery.Gov is thus far irrelevant at its supposed purpose….AND that RECOVERY.GOV & USAspending.gov both exist; there are now two websites which in essence violates the terms of the 2006 ACT, Barack Obama was a co-sponsor of the act so all this “transparency and accountability talk is not new; it has been in law for nearly 3 years…but most importantly…..according to the Accountability and Transparency chief Earl Devaney, the majority of is $84 MILLION DOLLAR budget was spent on developing Recovery.GOV.

WTF? How is it even possible to spend 84,000,000.00 developing a website? Why is it necessary to develop an 84 million dollar website when a perfectly good, relatively new one, with an astoundingly similar purpose already exists? This is the Government we want to hand over our tax money to so that they can reallocate it? THIS IS BLATANT WASTEFUL SPENDING….this government is going to run our banks, industries, economy, policy, and defense? We are in serious trouble!

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