The Obama Administration continues its campaign of transparency and competence with their wonderfully transparent web site, Recovery.gov.
At this web site you can discover so many miraculous things. Take our state of Colorado. To date I can think of only 7 congressmen and women to represent us in our nation’s capital. Until today, I thought we had 7 congressional districts. I live in no. 6 for example.
But wait, there’s more to the story. If you go to Recovery.gov you will discover new parts of Colorado you knew nothing about. According to this web site, we have 64 congressmen to dominate the debates on capital hill. And these 64 congressmen have sure brought home the bacon.
Lets take Colorado’s 8 th congressional district. The name of our congressman escapes me but he has done yeoman’s work in saving or creating jobs. Our 8 th CD rep has created three jobs in his district. It cost us $731,206 per job but hey who’s counting. Way to go congressman!
The Congressman over at the 30 th Congressional district also got us working again. This congressman who shall be unnamed and in a secure undisclosed location, saved or created 14 jobs and he did it on the cheap. It only cost us $77,554 per job. Must be blue collar jobs over at the 30 th C.D.
The grand champion for getting us cheap jobs goes to Colorado’s 64 th Congressional District Rep. Now what’s his name again? It’ll come to me in a minute. The 64 th C.D. rep bagged 14 jobs and it only cost us $2,371 apiece. I guess they haven’t heard of the minimum wage over in the 64th.
All of this wonderful competence comes to us from the people that will now give us Obamacare. I’d have second thoughts about getting an injection from these folks.I have saved a pdf of the recovery.gov page in case it somehow vaporizes.
What a country!
Mike Robinson is Sr. Partner at Robinson & Henry P.C., a Castle Rock Law Firm.
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It seems the problem is not with Recovery.gov, but with the data entry website. Good info:
http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2…
I know it’s fun to play partisan games and throw around hackneyed, ideological epithets about government, but the private sector is no better. In fact it’s worse in almost every respect. There are no sunshine laws regarding corporate contracting. Even the shareholders are in the dark.
I’ve worked in information technology for a couple of decades, and I could tell you about actually life-threatening data disasters–not just embarrassing ones–if I weren’t still covered by forever confidentiality agreements.
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who was #2 in the Bush OMB/ OFPP ?
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wishes now that they had never signed up for ARRA.
Recovery.gov shows that, within the state of Colorado, they’ve netted -$147,922,152, a loss.
And one of the companies providing mercenary services in Iraq got less than $5K for ARRA in Colorado.
And another contractor who does “development” in Afghanistan somehow did $1M of it in Colorado.
For a $9 Million website that just reposts data posted elsewhere, it doesn’t appear to add a lot of value. I’m guessing the contract went to a friend of a friend.
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I dont recall that Republicans much cared for accounting from Jan 2001 to Jan 2009
This is a website you’re ripping on, right?
There is a WONDERFUL and COMPETENT thing that people who spend time on the web trying to inform others do, and that’s called linking to the source!
It’s wonderfully competent. I think you could be in wonder about how competent clicking on this link will make you.
There may be some errors in the data. It seems that they are blindly posting what people have written in their filings and not back-checking it very well. Apparently, the administration had too much faith in America’s business leaders assuming they knew what Congressional District they lived in. Or how to fill out a simple form.
However, despite some reporting errors, you have to give the administration credit. Every dollar they have spent from the stimulus is accounted for and has been made public. You might get some funny results when you search specific things like singling out a congressional district, but the money is all there. And the jobs are all there. And it is always easy to look at a handful of cases amongst the entire program. The funding you cited makes up .00009% of the overall program.
It is a far cry from anything any previous administration has done. It is the first time such a tracking system has been used for a large program like ARRA, so cut them some slack. I doubt you could do much better.
And really, if criticizing them on a website that is meant for YOUR convenience is the best you’ve got, Obama must be doing something right.
Real-time data, not information that’s sequestered and tucked away until someone files a FOIA request and they release a redacted copy.
Real transparency means sunlight on the successes as well as the failures. And if it exposes a couple of morons who need to brush up on their civics and geography, all the better.