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    Default $18M Being Spent to Redesign Recovery.gov Web Site

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    18M Being Spent to Redesign Recovery.gov Web Site
    July 08, 2009 9:50 PM


    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."

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/200...-web-site.html


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    I can't help but think that the $18mil could be better spent elsewhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hjmick View Post
    I can't help but think that the $18mil could be better spent elsewhere.
    Why would you think that spending $18 million in stimulus money on a website designed to inform us how the government is spending the stimulus money could be better spent elsewhere?

    Oh, you are not a big government - high spending liberal. That is why


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    Im willing to bet I could find someone to design it for alot less.
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    Quote Originally Posted by avatar4321 View Post
    Im willing to bet I could find someone to design it for alot less.
    What? Add cut down on the Dem spending spree?

    Here are more examples of the well thought out stimulus plan

    $200K for tattoo removal, canoe trips, research of pig odors, and other vital government spending programs


    CONGRESS' PORKY POLS PIG OUT ON FINE $WINE
    BIG BUCKS TO CANOES & TATTOOS

    WASHINGTON - Congress went on a pork-a-palooza yesterday, approving a massive spending bill with big bucks for Hawaiian canoe trips, research into pig smells, and tattoo removal - all while the nation faces an economic crisis.

    Among the recipients of federal largesse is the Polynesian Voyaging Society of Honolulu, which got a $238,000 "earmark" in the bill.

    The group organizes sea voyages in ancient-style sailing canoes like the ones that first brought settlers to Hawaii.

    The sailing club has a powerful wind at its back in the person of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

    The bill also has a whopping 8 percent increase over last year for the numerous federal agencies it funds.

    New York got its share of earmarks, among them $475,000 to "improve and expand" the Italian American Museum in Little Italy.

    The project was pushed by New York Reps. Gary Ackerman and Jerrold Nadler. The latter touted it, among other earmarks, on his Web site.

    Nadler also announced $4.5 million for new park development in Manhattan.

    Uncle Sam's generosity extends upstate, where there's $950,000 to convert a railroad bridge over the Hudson River into a walkway in Poughkeepsie.

    Earmarks totaled at least $3.8 billion - a figure used by the House Appropriations Committee.

    But the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense calculates that there are an astonishing 8,570 earmarks at a cost of $7.7 billion.

    http://www.nypost.com/seven/02262009...ine_157027.htm


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    Quote Originally Posted by avatar4321 View Post
    Im willing to bet I could find someone to design it for alot less.
    I'm betting that too!
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