After two and a half months and $9.5 million, the world’s most expensive online map is ready to go. As promised, the government has completed its extreme makeover of the Recovery.gov website to help you track every last taxpayer stimulus dollar headed out the door to pay for one of those really useful $1200 signs. Given the outbreak of vanishing money over the past year, there is no way the government would want to take credit for burning $10 million on little more than a font change. The initial results are in.
Still, the government has a ways to go to complete transparency, (policy analyst at OMB Watch Craig) Jennings said. The site, Recovery.gov, for instance, does not include complete data on recipients of stimulus money, and users face significant hurdles to using the information that is available.
“It’s more of a nose job than a face lift,” Jennings said. “You need to put these data in a simple text format that people can download and use in Excel.”
But all is not lost. The government has also created a hot line to report cases of fraud, waste and abuse- such as the website itself.
Website upgrade makes it easier to monitor federal stimulus [LA Times]
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 9:58AM
Greg,
I'm going to put too many chlorine tablets in your toilets tank so that the water become over-chlorinated. Every time you take a shit or piss (I know you pee sitting down) the splash back of over-chlorinated water will irritate your skin.
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 9:58AM
Greg, I'm pregnant, and I think you the baby daddy. If it a boy I want to name him DeVondre, if it a girl Tayshawndra. What you think, boo?
-M. Waters
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 10:05AM
Talent still elusive for Greg Michaels
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 10:13AM
Greg, don't bring me a blanket when I ask for a shawl.
-Grandma Michaels
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 10:15AM
Fill-in-the-blank tuesday:
I fell asleep after the first sentence so I can only assume this article has something to do with greg's love of ______.
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 10:17AM
Greg - I am going to get behind you as you enter a revolving door and get my luggage caught before you have had a chance to get out.
Jeff Macke Wannabe
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 10:23AM
Greg, I'm going to choke you out with my invisible hand, while I slap you in the face with my invisible dick.
-The Market
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 10:28AM
@1, Greg's urine will will react with the bleach to form hydrazine - a highly toxic and sometimes deadly compound...I'd be vewy vewy careful
Posted by american bandersnatch , Sep 29, 2009 10:30AM
Shouldn't the gears mesh? What type of message does the logo send?
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 10:40AM
@7- well played, i'm amused
Posted by guest , Sep 29, 2009 12:25PM
OK Greg, let me see if I can parse your "logic":
a) goverment is, by definition, somewhat inefficient and wasteful.
b) therefore a website created by the gov't will be somewhat inefficient
c) therefore because that website is inefficient it should never have been created, even though that means we would be completely in the dark about all the OTHER much bigger ways the stimulus package is wasting our money.
Not being funny I can understand but at least use whatever fucking brain cells God gave you. Obviously the website isn't perfect and could be improved blah blah, but through it at least we have a shot at knowing how much of our fucking tax dollars are going to fund the National Museum of the Insane in Maxine Waters' district or any other bullshit projects.
Usually I just ignore the various Macke comments et al but for once i'm in complete agreement.
Greg, I want to put your head through a woodchipper and use the output to mulch the White House garden.
Posted by HAM05 , Sep 29, 2009 12:49PM
@11 settle down francis
@7 golf clap, that was gold
Posted by Bob , Sep 30, 2009 9:11AM
We will only be able to let Obama play president 2 years and save the U.S.A. from his Marxist ways. We need to put Republicans in charge of congress at midterm elections.