posted on May 6, 2009 04:28:46 PM new
Obama Lied: You Can't Track "Every Dime" of the Porkulus Money
Not that it matters to you left wingers.
Details thin on stimulus contracts
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — 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 have details on contracts and grants until October and may not be complete until next spring — halfway through the program, administration officials said.
Recovery.gov now lists programs being funded by the stimulus money, but provides no details on who received the grants and contracts. Agencies won't report that data until Oct. 10, according to Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which manages the website.
Devaney told a House subcommittee Tuesday that it will be a challenge to have the site ready to present spending data in five months. He said after the hearing that the board doesn't have enough data storage capacity, for example.
Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, a Republican serving on the House Science and Technology subcommittee, criticized the administration's decision to require reporting of only the first two recipients of stimulus spending. Broun said that means if the money goes to a state and then a city, the identities of the city's contractors will be unavailable.
Devaney said that after the first data become available in October, the 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. "I'm going to push them for as much data as possible," he said.
Devaney's spokeswoman, Nancy DiPaolo, said the website may not be completed until next spring.
The board solicited ideas for the site last week during an online "national dialogue" that drew 542 ideas and 1,330 comments. The suggestions included adding mapping tools and other software to allow users to search the data.
People accustomed to getting easily searchable information quickly could be frustrated, said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation, which is part of a coalition pressing for better access to spending data. "If we have to wait until October to get the information or to the end of the year to get a powerful recovery.gov site, the Obama administration will have missed an important opportunity," Elin said.
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.
As with all federal contracts, information about stimulus contracts is available on the Federal Procurement Data System's website, but that data is not available on recovery.gov.
In addition, 29 federal departments and agencies provide stimulus spending information. The quality of those websites varies, from a list of news releases and planning reports from the Justice Department to a chart detailing major programs and a clickable map with state-level funding figures on the Energy Department's site.
The 50 state stimulus websites also differ. Most of Mississippi's site, for example, is taken up by a message from Republican Gov. Haley Barbour noting he opposed the stimulus.
Texas, by contrast, has a site featuring links to information about applying for stimulus grants and contracts.
Elin said the Obama administration is moving relatively quickly to gather and present massive amounts of data. Nevertheless, executives at Onvia, which collects government contracting information for its clients, are skeptical that recovery.gov can meet the administration's goals. Onvia, which is posting stimulus-related data on its recovery.org website, took much longer to develop its systems, said Eric Gillespie, Onvia's chief information officer.
"It's really, really hard," Gillespie said, "and it's taken us 10 years to figure out." It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on May 6, 2009 04:57:46 PM new
In exactly what way did he lie bear? Once again, you haven't read your own article. Nowhere does it state that the information won't be available. Another nice try.
While I'm sure you've been busy profiting off the jacked up prices of guns and ammo due to the phony "they're gonna take our weapons away" hysteria, maybe you've also been trying to figure a way to get a piece of Texas' 40 billion dollar share in the "pork".
posted on May 6, 2009 07:34:18 PM new
Bear, Station KCUF is looking for a disk jockey. Just think, to the tune of "Mixed Up Confusion" you can cut and paste.
I see that Rush tried to put a spin on that one too.
posted on May 6, 2009 09:43:49 PM new
According to your other post, Obama's main failing is that he is black. I have no time for you. Edited to add: I have copied and saved your "It was said .....that a black man would become president "when pigs fly."
Indeed, 100 days into Obama's presidency... Swine Flu.". I will use it every time you try to disparage Obama. Folks can weigh for themselves the gist of your postings.
[ edited by pixiamom on May 6, 2009 10:25 PM ]
Was there ever any doubt about bear's racism? Racism correlates at least 98% with his other "views"; indeed it would be noteworthy if he weren't racist. You know, like man bites dog.
posted on May 10, 2009 06:20:04 PM new
It really does not matter whether he lies or tell the truth,he does not know which end is up,so why even bother to track him or his dime!
Time is better spent watching Netflix movie.
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Economic Reform act of Chairman Obama of the socialist States of America :
10 ounces of meat per month,half a yard of cotton per year per adult.
Hellilujah!
posted on May 11, 2009 08:00:50 AM new
"The President doesn't need Bear to disparage him, he's doing a pretty good job himself"
The economy is showing signs of recovery, respect for us is increasing around the world and Americans are looking to the future with renewed hope. What's to disparage?
posted on May 11, 2009 09:00:16 AM new
Hey Coach, you know that renewed hope is just the first symptom of liberal dementia, right?
My portfolio is down, a good number of my friends are unemployed, but I'm so glad to have a President that I'm proud of and whose views I (for the most part) share, that I feel better than I have in many years.
If this is disparagement, then go right ahead and continue disparaging.
posted on May 11, 2009 09:04:32 AM new
"The economy is showing signs of recovery,"
In your dreams. They are printing money like crazy, gorging at the trough in partisan orgies, structuring a Chrysler bankruptcy which is welfare for the UAW at the expense of fixing the financial community. And I guess somebody must have told him to keep his mouth shut, because every time the President or Treas sec. opened their mouths, the market fell. His "economic theories" are such that he can't even get his own party on board and passage is doubtful.
So they ran out of rich people, now they're going to get those evil corporations. Only problem is those corporations are simply moving their primary residences from the US to different countries.
11 Trillion and counting.
"respect for us is increasing around the world and Americans are looking to the future with renewed hope."
Our allies think of him as half a joke who let's Sasha pick out the gifts for foreign dignitaries. Our enemies treat him like a punk from the sticks.
And Americans' "renewed hope" seems to be (righteously so) a near paranoid retrenchment and circling of the wagons to forestall financial ruin. Every time they tell you the new figures about "recovery" take a walk through the malls or drive by the Home Depots with the contractors soliciting customers in the parking lots.
Remember 3-4 years ago I said my broker said housing was going to crash? Remember last year when I said the rest was going to crash?? Here's a new tip for you: Buy gold.
posted on May 11, 2009 09:57:43 AM new
Hey Cash, I certainly prefer my "liberal dementia" over the "Wild Animal Brothers'" paranoia and cynicism (and in some cases racism.)
Squirrel--I did not say the economy has recovered. It is showing slight signs in some indices. As far as Obama being laughed at by our allies---show me. He is getting a lot more respect around the world than Bush ever did.
