Now that it is being reported by ABC, I feel fairly confident that this is not just a right-wing hoax:
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site.
The new Web site promises to give taxpayers more information about where their money is going than the current version of the site.
“Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent,” James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. “Armed with easy access to this information, taxpayers can make government more accountable for its decisions.”
The contract calls for spending $9.5 million through January, and as much as $18 million through 2014, according to the GSA press release.
“We are pleased that another major milestone has been achieved," Earl E. Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, says in the press release. “We thank the GSA for its assistance and look forward to working with Smartronix."
That's EIGHTEEN MILLION DOLLARS!
That's 360 $50,000 jobs
That's about 500 first-year teachers in many parts of our country!
That's 180 University of Illinois students getting a four year free ride!
That's 3,600 kids getting a free year of Community College with books!
That's us finally getting a light at Bell and Route 6 as well as McKinley Woods Road and 6!
That's a lifetime supply of blood pressure medicine for those of us that have had it!!
That's just plain nuts!
They spend 18 million dollars to show us how they waste money and they are proud of it!
What will it take for us to finally wake up?
