Ken’s Take: Did anybody really expect that the pork-laden, faux stimulus package would be “transparent”?
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According to USA TODAY:
Although President Obama has vowed that citizens will be able to track “every dime” of the $787 billion stimulus bill, a government website dedicated to the spending won’t be complete until next spring — halfway through the program,
Recovery.gov now lists programs being funded by the stimulus money, but provides no details on who received the grants and contracts.
The site currently lists total amounts available and already spent — as of last week, $72.2 billion available and $15.4 billion spent. There’s also an interactive map showing allocations for each state.
After the first data become available in October, the plan’s watchdog board will wait six to nine months for the White House Office of Management and Budget to issue new guidance on how far down the spending chain the money must be tracked.
People accustomed to getting easily searchable information quickly could be frustrated …
Executives at Onvia, which collects government contracting information for its clients, are skeptical that recovery.gov can meet the administration’s stated goals. “It’s really, really hard.”
Full article:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2009-05-06-stimulus_N.htm
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May 26, 2009 at 10:03 am |
This is just one more example of Obama’s management style: make bold promises without actually getting pulled into the policy making process, working the issues or understanding second order effects.
May 26, 2009 at 10:39 am |
Politics continued….lie about everything!
Rtaylor/Horseshoe Bay, TX
May 28, 2009 at 10:20 am |
Not surprising at all; there is a firm in Seattle (Onvia) that realized the feds are utterly incapable of tracking this on their own, and put up their own tracking site using publicly available data, it’s a good way to get your blood up by looking at what has been deemed worthy of funding.
http://www.recovery.org
May 28, 2009 at 6:03 pm |
I heard about recovery.org on NPR this afternoon. It appears that 13 of the top 15 users of the website are actually federal agencies!
I’m shocked – SHOCKED – that the private sector was able to come up with a better solution months before the Federales even have a beta version available.